The CBC has found itself under fire, forced to defend its economic value and societal relevance while the country’s access-to-information watchdog suggests the broadcaster may be automatically denying information requests.
Two of the seven re-designed regional websites my employer operates have recently gone public. I admit I was pretty excited when it happened. It looked like I could sort of…
pale 2009 Madame Flaherty hath spoken. OTTAWA - Finance minister Jim Flaherty says he expects the Canadian and U.S. economies will have modest growth next year - and brushed off…
Occupy the NDP Posted on October 24, 2011 by murraydobbin There’s nothing quite like a global social movement to knock other stuff off the front pages and the Occupy movement…
Photo courtesy of the National Post, URL http://nationalpostcomment.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/scattergun.jpg?w=620As Bill C-19 is slated for an inevitable approval in Parliament due to the Tory majority Harper has achieved in the last federal…
Martin Bashir uses his sanctimonious “Clear the Air” editorial segment to indignantly rip into Texas Governor Rick Perry for his latest cack-handed attempt to burrow into the most loathsome depths…
Obama-Keystone XL-Hillary.png TransCanada Corp, the company hoping to build the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, spent $540,000 on lobbying in the third quarter of 2011, according to lobb...
Tim Hudak would’ve been wise to have paid a bit more attention to his notoriously conservative, Progressive Conservative MPP, Frank Klees during the last session. A Conservative insider had told…
In an interview with Straight Goods News, Brian Topp put forward one of the questions he wants New Democrats to have uppermost in their minds when they cast their ballots…
Stephen Harper sure knows how to pick great friends for Canada ... 'eh??"We found 53 decomposing bodies, apparently Gaddafi supporters, at an abandoned hotel in Sirte," said Peter Bouckaert of…
What could be wrong with Dalhousie University’s announcement that one of Nova Scotia’s leading industrialists is giving Dal’s School of Business $15-million? When you dig behind the headlines, there’s quite…
In a characteristically display of arrogance and entitlement, Kathy Dunderdale today reappointed two of her key political hacks – Len Simms and Ross Reid – to their patronage jobs in…
If you don't know Jack, you should. He's the corrupt, corrupt lobbyist whose prison sentence was too short. Now he's written a book and Daily Caller's Tucker Carlson is throwing…
Photo courtesy of the National Post, URL http://nationalpostnews.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/pjt-klees-5.jpg?w=620 During the heated Ontario provincial election, many were speculating that if there was to be such a thing as a Liberal minority…
I just received this from the ACLU. I will run it here verbatim, except for a few extraneous bits. This is racial and ethnic profiling at its most extreme. If…
Frank Klees, the runner up to Tim Hudak in the 2009 Ontario PC leadership race, has announced he will be running for speaker when the Ontario legislature resumes sitting.If you're…
It was curious to see just what the NDP would leadoff Question Period with, with so many issues of the day. Would it be the long-gun registry? Would it be…
At a recent United Nations environmental conference in Cartagena, Colombia, attended by over 170 represented countries, 50 nations have ratified an amendment to the 1989 Basel Convention which will restrict…
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I've never much favoured deporting people who came to this country as children,believing that they are our problem to deal with, after all they are products of our society. Add…
