The right-wing Canadian media establishment unleashed one of its loudest barking dogs this week as Maclean’s Andrew Coyne tried to tear a strip off the Occupy Wall Street movement in…
No less than three progressive blogger types are arguing over whether the Sunshine Girl should be phased out and yet none of them have provided a picture of the girl…
Hey Canada, it’s time for more competition Canadians have been speaking out about their wireless services in growing numbers. In fact, complaints about services from Big Telecom companies such...
To describe the topic of Nordic documentary cinema as unexplored would be an understatement.
Oh dear, this must hurt... The Conservatives have not liked how the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) has been doing his job. They have gone so far as to limit the…
More and more people in the Montreal region are using public transit, a report by the group Transit says. In 2006, Quebec set out to increase use of public transit…
Today the Globe & Mail opened its commentary on the American 2012 election with a column by Pittsburgh journalist David Shribman. Shribman presents a bizarre description of the American election…
Both Warren Kinsella and Gritchik as (well, state in the latter): is the Sunshine girl offensive, or are people making a mountain out of a mole hill?Obviously, that relates back…
The Liberals seem to be scraping the barrel trying to build their membership numbers. There's a sense of desperation to it. E-mails from the national, provincial and riding offices in…
Ontario's Minority Government looks to be getting the backing of the Hudak Conservatives. Some of you may see that as a surprise. I for one am not at all surprised…
Three days ago, I posted that David Heap, a Canadian professor and activist who was on the Tahrir, which was attempting to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza, was being…
R. v. Mahmood, 2011 ONCA 693, released today, gives useful guidance on misapprehension of evidence at trial. Not every failure at trial renders a decision subject to appeal. Misapprehension of evidence, when advanced…
There is a new economics blog on the nets dedicated to an analysis of Mankiw’s blog. Reminds me of the anti-Samuelson text book which served as one of my textbooks…
There is a certain paradox in what just happened in Ohio. Thanks to the provision in some states for direct democracy as opposed to a singular reliance on representative democracy…
I was in Cannes last week with CLC President Ken Georgetti for the G20 Labour Summit. (I know, tough job.) This event was arranged by the International Trade Union Confederation…
The number one crippling tactical flaw of the American Republican party is a tendency to drink their own kool-aid. Over and over they make the same mistake, confusing what they…
Has Toronto lost its way? That's been the word on the street, and pretty much everywhere else, since Mayor Ford took office a little less than a year ago.But as…
The Tea Party in the States got a huge slap in the face in yesterday's off-year elections in the States. Among the biggest ones: Voters in Ohio rejected by a…
Don’t live for what you can get – live for what you can give. Better the thought left for reflection -but if we need a musical accompaniment, or…
After nearly 3 years in deep pursuit of the colonial wars initiated by ex-President Bush, the Obama regime has finally recognized the catastrophic domestic and foreign consequences. As a result…
