Drive For Five
Below, a beaming and proud Inuit youth excepts the prestigious “Fossil of the Year” award in Durban on behalf of all humbled Canadians: What is simply tremendous, Canada has now…
2011
Stephen Harper And His Undemocratic Conservative Gov’t Will Not Take A Vote On Changes To The Canadian Wheat Board To Farmers Because THEY WOULD LOSE!
“NDP wheat board critic and Winnipeg MP Pat Martin said if the government holds a vote, and gets more than half of Prairie farmers to agree to do away with…
Saturday Photo: Snow and Rock in the Noontime Light
Brilliant sunshine today, and a little snow. It’s not enough for a white Christmas, but maybe it’s a good sign.
National Post Letter: Feminism Caused the Montreal Massacre
Someone has to be the first to call Rob Bredin an idiot, and I guess it’ll be me: Let’s get real… The feminization of young men… is why no male…
Leadership 2012 Candidate Rankings – December 10, 2011
While there was plenty to talk about following the NDP’s first leadership debate, the effect of such an early event on the candidates’ long-term prospects was bound to be limited.…
Sun Media giddy over sale of Leafs to Rogers/Bell juggernaut
Must admit that this purchase by the media overlords of the ‘gang of seven’, Bell (TSN) and Rogers (Sportsnet), doesn’t auger well for CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada, a broadcast…
The Problem With the Media May Not be Lack of Balance
In her book The Right is Wrong, Arianna Huffington devotes a chapter to the media’s search for truth, or abandonment of it, depending on how you look at it. Huffington…
North American Air Pollution Statistics Will Take Your Breath Away
coal-power-plant-pic1.jpg Two separate reports released this week offer a grim look at the state of air quality in North America. The continent already produces 6% of the world’s greenhouse gas…
write for rights: celebrate human rights day with amnesty
Are you participating in Write for Rights? This annual event is a simple, hands-on way you can stand up for global human rights at least once a year. Be a…
Lobbyist Tracker Updated
Three days have now passed since the dishon. Peter MacKay threatened to sue his critics for libel, and Sixth Estate has not received any requests to take down posts “attacking…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Gerald Caplan documents the U.S. Republicans’ refusal to live in a reality-based society, while hinting that the same philosophy is no less present…
The Star and Its Readers
If the Harper government keeps an ‘enemies list‘, which, quite frankly, I have little doubt that it does, given its infernal embrace of ‘values’ that are repellent to Canadians who…
Canada’s online beehive by Don Tapscott
Professor says Canadians need a media commons — a public, independent place where there can be a true meeting of the minds and where there is a chance of achieving…
The History We Don’t Know
Jeffrey Simpson is full of praise for Richard Gwyn’s two volume biography of Sir John A. Macdonald. And he mourns the place which history holds in modern Canada: In schools,…
Lots of chest puffing these days…
…about something that is really rather trivial considering all else that is going down in the world right now – e.g. world economy in the crapper, homelessness, climate change… that…
Harper can count on media
This is a lesson for all the mainstream media. It comes from NPR in the US. NPR tried to find a millionaire job creator to ask them if the GOP…
Fun Saturday reading
This has to be one of the most epic smack downs of a politician in recent memory: It may be months before the implications of David Cameron’s Europe raspberry become…
Dr. Seuss On U.N. Climate Talks: “On Wednesday My Chicken Laid Eggs That Were Fried”
Dr. Seuss was always an accurate as well as entertaining observer of human nature. Marcus Brigstoke and the other funny folks at the British radio comedy “The Now Show” pay…
international human rights day: mohamed harkat and indefinite detention
Today is International Human Rights Day, a day to work for and affirm human rights at home and abroad. Today also marks 9 years since Mohamed Harkat, a Canadian citizen,…
Watching David Carr in Page One is like watching Minnie Mouse defend Belladonna
If I ever go into battle, please supply me with one (1) David Carr. Hunter S. Thompson might have been the penultimate literary motherfucker but David Carr pisses all over…