This is a really great speech. All Canadians, especially the Liberals, should give it a listen. H/T Rob Silver Filed under: Alberta, Canadian Politics, Politics Tagged: Great Speeches, Naheed Nenshi,…
Devout Christians are always in touch with reality, a fact I’ve come to appreciate in my teens, having grown up as a Catholic and received religious education since kindergarten. Craig…
Heather Mallick has a rather funny piece in The Star on Giorgio Mammoliti's creepy video taping of lesbians during this past Saturday's Dyke March. Mallick thinks Mr. M is just…
Nation, I've been watching with interest as the mainstream media began to notice that there was, in fact, a leadership race going on within the Alberta PC Party.I admit to…
By Steve Anderson for Rabble.ca The government has promised to push through an invasive, anti-Internet set of "Lawful Access" electronic surveillance laws within the first 100 days of Parliament. If…
In an announcement that had absolutely no ties whatsoever to the current election campaign, the provincial government today tossed $5.0 million into a variety of efforts that are supposed to…
090720_gerard_schwartz_297.jpg Oil industry lobbyist and president of the American Petroleum Institute (API) Jack Gerard made his industry's goal clear in a recent interview with Fortune Magazine...
So, this isn't city business but I know people are interested in the state of healthcare in our city and the province so when I got notice of this in…
So, this isn’t city business but I know people are interested in the state of healthcare in our city and the province so when I got notice of this in…
So, this isn't city business but I know people are interested in the state of healthcare in our city and the province so when I got notice of this in…
So, this isn’t city business but I know people are interested in the state of healthcare in our city and the province so when I got notice of this in…
Stats Can will take any piece of crap you're willing to send them:OTTAWA - Census officials are settling for incomplete long questionnaires in the final push of the 2011 collection…
Some incredible footage from a huge sandstorm that blanketed Phoenix Arizona yesterday. One local resident said: I have been in Arizona for 20 years and have never seen a storm…
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/07/06/ottawa-humane-society-harper.html
Yes, it's highly problematic that the Cons are slashing the availability of applications for skilled workers to immigrate to Canada:A little-known clause in instructions Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has issued…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- David Green nicely explains the basic choice to be made in determining what type of economy we want to pursue:(T)he basic tenet of the…
This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps…
Rondel v. Robinson Estate, 2011 ONCA 493 considers, and upholds, the common law position in Canada that direct extrinsic evidence of a testator's intention in the face of an unambiguous will is inadmissible: ...
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This is what it has come to for the Republican party. This person is a leading contender for the 2012 presidential election. It just keeps getting crazier. 2012 may not…
