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Two NDP MPs from Windsor have told their local paper that while they’re not getting any new MPs in the region from the seat redistribution, what they really need is more constituency staff because of the huge workloads that they’re under. And immediately my warning lights went off, because this is indicative

The highly entertaining and as-yet-unfinished saga of Patrick Ross has been disappeared. The reason? CC disapproved of my site policy that includes a generally open door to commenters. He insisted that I censor them, I refused, and that’s that. Too bad, because the old CC was plainly back, en pleine

The Kindom of Saudi Arabia was in the news twice during the month of December, 2011. On December 12, a woman in her sixties named Amina bint Abdul Halim bin Salem Nasser was beheaded for practicing “witchcraft and sorcery.” On December 29, a deal between Saudi Arabia and the United

Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but he was elected as a Conservative, not a Civil Libertarian, right? While I know its essentially just another label for an “independent MP,” it’s still highly amusing. What isn’t highly amusing is drunk driving, and then blatantly refusing to take the breathilizer test.

This excellent document comes from Dr. Carolyn Bennett, PC, MP and her team of 2011 Women Candidates. I endorse it fully! Speaking to the core values of what we believe all members of the Liberal Party of Canada should embody if we wish to regain the trust of Canadians, members

I didn’t even attempt to write a blog on yesterday’s Times and Transcript. There was simply nothing in it. The whole day after New Year’s Day edition was about what happened in 1911. But we already knew that. Today’s, January 3, is almost as bad. The front page has a

As we enter the new year the prospects for defeating the Harper government in 2015 seem uncertain at best. And yet if those who care about the country were musing over a new year’s resolution that would be it: a dedication to this single overarching purpose. Even if Stephen Harper

In the modern capitalist era, the ideologies of imperialist rulers vary over time, from the early appeals to “the right” to wealth, power, colonies and grandeur to later claims of a ‘civilizing mission.’ More recently imperial rulers have propagated, many diverse justifications adapted to specific contexts, adversaries, circumstances and audiences.

I shied away from “The Company Men” in 2010 because it sounded too much like “Up in the Air,” the repellent George Clooney vehicle about corporate downsizing. Both films were far more concerned about the unemployed executive than the average factory worker, but clearly we are in a different period

Many, many years ago Lee and I spent a lot of time hiking in the Sierra Nevada of California. Ever since then there is a particular kind of cold, blue sunshine that I associate with mountain mornings, and which make me want to get moving. This morning it’s considerably colder