Canadians have traditionally held social democratic values while supporting centrist political parties. Canadians support universal single payer public health insurance, public pensions and a social safety net, all of which,…
I quoted from a Lewis Carroll poem The Walrus and the Carpenter in a comment thread at the Vancouver Observer. My obvious suggestion was that Tzeporah Berman had been like…
They all used Rupert Murdoch to get ahead. (Emphasis mine.)Blair, along with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, was present when Murdoch's daughters, Grace and Chloe, were baptized on the banks…
Though they're both down from their last poll thanks to an NDP jump (or, possibly just a resettling, given that Nanos had them lower than other pollsters before) Nanos has…
There seems to be no end to small details that paint a very disturbing picture in the coastal salmon farming industry. Why do we have to rely on private citizens…
This issue is boiling up right now, and on Friday the party brass will decide whether to continue the favoured position of trade unions by reserving one quarter of the…
Or something. I'm not sure what, but since I dropped my sister and her son off at the airport this morning just before seven I've been feeling tremendously sad and…
Well, Boys ‘n’ girls, you had to know that was coming. The editors don’t like unions or the working class for that matter. In fact, they sooo despise them, that…
Agnostic, Athiest, (strong and weak), secularist, naturalist, humanist, non-believer, pantheist, positivist; the list of terms used to describe people who do not believe in the existence of a deity is…
Steve V will have the deets...eventually. But the takeaway is: Within the margin o' error! BOOHYAH!!!source
Can you imagine? Too bad that we do not know what he would be doing now. To Freddie. And one of the best live performances ever. If you have not…
Kudos to the Times Colonist editorialists for an honest examination of the Ordure of British Columbia fiasco: "...Campbell’s honour is premature for another reason — quite simply, it breaks the…
In a preview of the jobs speech he will deliver on Thursday to Congress, President Obama told a Labour Day rally in Detroit that there are numerous roads and bridges…
"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have…
Hoping to see many of you at the non-partisan Round table discussion taking place on Sept. 20th starting at 7 pm at the Riverbend Public Library in Edmonton. Representatives of…
That the Liberals and NDP will eventually unite is a foregone conclusion in my opinion, the only question is one of timing. Will it be sooner or later? The old…
john stossel.jpg Fox News host John Stossel says that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has passed its prime, and is no longer useful. After the Obama Administration last week overruled…
Work on getting past addictions by setting effective, personally-valued goals, exercising discipline but tolerating lapses, accessing support, finding substitutions, distractions and adaptive strategies, and cultivating mindfulness and insight into emotions…
TheBestThingMyFatherEverTaughtMeJury-RigEverythingVilleWhen my brothers and I were kids my Dad, who worked on long-haul tugboats, was gone a lot.But, because his life revolved around cycles of three weeks on and three…
