From the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board: Call for Bids NL11-01 (Western Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Region) The following bids, based upon the work commitments bid, have been accepted:…
Ask Canadians which political party is least grassroots in orientation, more a backroom affair, more an organization of elites and insiders, most corrupt, least “street” in outreach, and I guarantee…
Did Goldman Sachs play a key role in Europe’s fiscal meltdown and are Goldman Sachs alumni now moving into top positions in the most unstable Euro nations? Apparently so. This…
It looks like the Occupy folks have really pissed off the management. In Seattle the police pepper sprayed woman, Dorli Rainey, 84 who was part of the occupy protest. Dorli…
Earlier this morning, Warren Kinsella offered a broader set of reasons then I have, concerning the folly of the Liberal caucus’ opposition to the government’s Fair Representation Act. One of…
How is this news???? Tell me! Please!!! Seriously? This is People Magazine stuff. Not journalism. Who cares who is dating whom? Eyebrows were raised at the Gold Medal Plates culinary…
The UN recently issued a report warning of the effects of global warming on the world’s major river systems. Increased evaporation, drought and irregular rainfalls are expected to leave water…
A version of this article first appeared on the website of Strategic Culture Foundation, a Russian online paper. Let me explain the title to this article. Canada’s overriding mission, according…
The National Post has a column by self-declared former Mossad officer Michael Ross complaining that he cannot understand how we could allow someone with dubious ties to an international lobbyist…
There are lots of good arguments you can make that just adding more and more seats to the House of Commons to address shifting populations is a bad idea. For…
After looking at this picture would you be able to eat the final product? Believe it or not this goo is for chicken nuggets which you might eat at fast…
It seems our European cousins are coming to grips with the utter madness of the past. Along the Atlantic coast and in the Baltic sea thousands of tonnes of chemical…
Psst, did I forget to mention Freddie Mac? Now that it’s public knowledge Newt Gingrich’s favourite villain Freddie Mac actually paid the disgraced Speaker $1.6 million for lobbying ‘advice’, I…
Never let it be said that as a climate activist I’m not occasionally smitten by the desire to do a little Hollywood star-gazing. In the past, I’ve been known to…
R. v. Armstrong, 2011 ONCA 709 deals with 'reasonable excuse'. In both civil and criminal law a common defence is 'confess and avoid'. Such defences accept the cause is made out but say…
Arrgh. I had planned on writing about something else, but this is bugging me. Short form: Donald Trump, still on TV, why? I wonder if anyone else is as tired…
Last month we talked about Jane Eyre at the Atwater Library, and tonight it will Jean Rhys’s idea of why the first Mrs. Rochester went mad, Wide Sargasso Sea. Both…
Why this is news, I’m not sure. The fact that it’s the lead story on NNW boggles my mind. Leave them alone.
Canada may be a Pacific Rim country just not, perhaps, to our corporate news media. There’s a lot happening in the South-Asia/East Asia arc involving China, India, the United States…
The Mowat Centre final report on Employment Insurance (EI) released today has won a fair bit of media attention, and will serve to deepen the national debate over Canada’s most…
