When Stephen Harper appointed three defeated candidates to the Senate this past May, the response was swift and decidedly negative.Opposition members denounced the move as undemocratic. Premiers called for the…
Intergovernmental affairs minister Dave Denine won't be seeking re-election this fall, according to media reports. So much for the claim last December that all Tory incumbents were seeking re-election in…
If you asked former British prime minister, Gordon Brown, he'd tell you that the Murdoch newspapers have "links with criminals." In particular, Brown is referring to the venerable Sunday Times,…
The controversial brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai has been murdered by his bodyguard in Kandahar. Ahmed Karzai was gunned down in his home by one of his bodyguards who…
Prime Minister Stephen Harper: an honourary chief of the Blood tribe in Stand Off, Alta.Read the story here.
Former British PM Gordon Brown has gone on the offensive against Rupert Murdoch. He stated today that while both PM as well as Tony Blair's Chancellor, his banking records and…
With the introduction of Google+, the social networking world has gotten a lot more crowded. Just like in business, competition brings out the best of us, and the new battle…
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Polygamist, Under Scrutiny in Utah, Plans Suit to Challenge Law (John Schwartz/New York Times) - http://goo.gl/HbKkuDivorce Act reforms could be…
Keith Olbermann interviews John Dean, one of the major figures of Watergate and the Nixon era. Will this bring the Cameron government down given Cameron’s past association with Murdoch? Only…
Samara Canada is running a neat little contest. They have a list of 12 Canadian political books from the past twenty-five years, and they’re asking people to come and vote…
In many ways, I suspect that we get exactly the kind of political representation that we deserve. A population that is either largely disengaged from the political process or lacking…
Yesterday, John Baird announced that Canada would boycott the UN Conference on Disarmament. Canada's objection, said Baird, was that North Korea would chair the conference:"It's just absurd to have them…
"These new findings are in line with other recent observations supporting both environmental and genetic contributions to ASD, with the environmental factors likely prenatal and the genetic factors highly complex…
By Michael Geist The CRTC hearing on wholesale usage based billing opened yesterday with Bell leading off in front of a packed room (coverage from the Globe, National Post, Quebecor,…
At the 2010 GTEC conference I did a panel with David Strigel, the Program Manager of the Citywide Data Warehouse (CityDW) at the District of Columbia Government. During the introductory…
The awesomeness of The Baseline Cowboys, who I blogged about in their early days, is spreading far and wide! Tomorrow is GC and my GC’s and mine GC’s and my’s…
Google this morning brings us an image of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow (right). Seems it was consecrated on July 12, 1561, or 550 years ago today.It's quite an impressive…
Many good reasons to boycott tonight's Major League All Star Game: Arizona, The All-Star Game, And Speaking Up For Human Rights at Joy of Sox.
Seen yesterday at the BMO branch at the corner of Smyth and Russell. Share and Enjoy: Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
It is worth remembering, every once in a while, that Canada remains a constitutional monarchy. Precisely because the monarchy has no de facto power, most of us - myself included…
