A report, known as the Deetman Inquiry, has confirmed that “between 10,000 and 20,000” children were abused at Catholic institutions in the Netherlands over the past 65 years. This is…
Assorted content to end your weekend. – Bruce Anderson worries that the Cons might think they face no restriction on their ability to get away with dirty tricks. But Noah…
The only reason the preposterous announcement that Santa’s sleigh will be receiving an armed escort by CF-18 fighters doesn’t win the Flack Award this week is because the same announcement…
The folks in charge of making sure your food is safe to eat are damping down scientific research to accommodate Stephen Harper’s PR priorities. And the Canadian Food Inspection Agency…
With the NDP’s leadership contestants otherwise consisting entirely of sitting MPs or media-anointed favourites, Martin Singh has faced a tougher job getting noticed than anybody else in the field. So…
So far I have taken over 2500 pictures. But the internet here is too slow for me to upload much, and you probably want me to go through the mountain…
It’s too bad nobody warned you. Oh, wait… From the Globe’s Gerald Caplan: There was never a Trudeauland or Mulroneyland or Chrétienland, but as The Globe’s Lawrence Martin has made…
The Bloc Québécois was nearly obliterated in the last federal elections. Support for the Parti Québécois keeps going down. Support for Québec independence has slipped as low as 33%, below…
Actually, the title of this post was just to get your attention. I would indeed be an unfeeling man were I to wish the minister of Human Resources and Skills…
We have mentioned in the past that our intel in Quebec is very poor owing to language barriers, geography and not having anyone on the ground. Thankfully, a new group…
With the fall sitting of Parliament behind us- the first since the Conservatives won their majority- perhaps a good time to analyze where the Liberals sit, now that the election…
Justin Trudeau’sperceptive description of one of the Harper Regimes mouthpieces gotme to thinking! Out here in rural Canada we are used to theoccasional smell wafting up the hill from the…
Anyone who has been to a northern reserve knows that Attawapiskat is not an aberration. Bob Rae is right. Northern native communities are “our third world.” And it’s most revealing…
Paging George Orwell: a new US anti-abortion bill is named Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act. Good story plus mostly good comments at the link, too. Thanks…
Those who think that the danger of war is past are living in a fool’s paradise. We are faced today with militarism more powerful and more dangerous than that which…
Opponents of Section 13 argue that it is an assault on free speech. They claim that it targets speech that may merely offend those with thin skins. If the target…
From NCF, at Bradley Manning’s hearing: And what the day it was! Manning’s lawyer David Coombs (whose very nice wife is from TO) is a force to be reckoned with!…
Rex Murphy's point seems to be that, "well, yes Stephen Harper is a bit of a monster but so was Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chrétien." I'm not crazy about that…
On the left you can see yesterday’s Vancouver Sun cover page the day after more than 60 First Nations annouced they will not allow the Enbridge pipeline through their territories,…
“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
