shutterstock_74395414.jpg The natural gas industry's favorite public relations ploy about the necessity of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), the process through which "clean nat...
Jane Taber in the Globe and Mail this morning wrote thatSheila Fraser’s successor can’t speak French and the opposition is outraged. Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae says his caucus will…
The long gun registry.You do have a majority, eh?I realize dragging it out makes you seem something, just not sure what that something is.WFDS
As Richard Wilkinson says, “Something we instinctively know, inequality is divisive and socially corrosive.” In this TED talk he takes us through the data, charts and numbers that demonstrate the…
As Richard Wilkinson says, "Something we instinctively know, inequality is divisive and socially corrosive." In this TED talk he takes us through the data, charts and numbers that demonstrate the…
As Richard Wilkinson says, “Something we instinctively know, inequality is divisive and socially corrosive.” In this TED talk he takes us through the data, charts and numbers that demonstrate the…
Europe Agrees to Basics of Plan to Resolve Euro Crisis - NYTimes.com This does little for real people. When the EU talks about saving the economy, they really mean of…
The news is all alight with the question of the day.. Should Rob Ford Apologize to the 9/11 operator? But the thing that has made me go WTF? is this…
It's been a little over a week since Nathan Cullen launched his bid for leadership of the NDP with a bold plan to encourage cooperation between members of the three…
I’m the last person to discourage someone from voting and getting involved in the organized political process. I joined a political party at age 16, and I’ve voted in every…
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There hasn't been as much reporting on the Cons' re-introduction of copyright legislation as there was at some other points when previous incarnations were up for discussion. But Tuesday, October…
Jon Bon Jovi has opened a restaurant that uses the pay what you can (PWYC) system to help Americans who are unable to purchase the most basic of necessitates: food.…
Everywhere I go there is a sense of quiet resolve. We Liberals have experienced the allure of the quick fix and seen how it always fails. Our return will not…
SOS_100xx100.png Letter to Toews from Office of the Privacy Commissioner condemns online spying bills October 27, 2011 – The federal Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, sent another letter...
Last night's entire first segment of The Daily Show focused on the recent study funded by the Koch Brothers that confirmed (again) that climate change is indeed a reality -…
Lots of pumpkins yesterday at the Jean Talon Market, all ready to be carved for Halloween next week.I didn't see anyone preparing lights for Diwali, though, whose beginning was celebrated…
By Emily Chung for CBC News Rogers throttles file-sharing traffic from BitTorrent more than any other internet provider in North America and may be violating Canadian net neutrality guidelines, ...
Science, it seems, is confirming the Occupy movement's concerns about capitalists running the world. A trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology combined the mathematics…
Robert Hackett, a professor in the school of communication at Simon Fraser University and a research associate at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ B.C. Office, has written an incisive…
