2011
Once And Future King
You know your party is on the skids, when your road map to restoration involves creating a national unity crisis. Perhaps the Liberals should make Pierre Trudeau their next leader.…
Toronto Approves Pride Funding, With Caveats
Despite threats from Toronto’s mayor to pull its funding, a city council committee has unanimously voted to continue supporting the city’s annual Pride festival. Toronto Pride is Canada’s largest Pride…
gq feature on stop-lossed iraq war resister phil mcdowell, and canadian press reaction
For several months, Wil Hylton, an excellent writer from GQ magazine, has been interviewing Phil McDowell, an Iraq War resister living in Canada, along with many other war resisters and…
HuffPo takes on the Great White North
What a pleasant surprise when I saw the other day that Arianna Huffington launched a Canadian version of the Huffington Post. I was annoyed, as were other users, that for…
What a spring it’s been
“The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the…
Lessons from the ground floor
The CBC has posted an exit interview with Glen Pearson, one of the most underrated MPs of the previous two Parliaments and possibly the most decent person you’ll ever meet.…
An End of May Full of Good Things
Big times happening:Yesterday Jeanne turned nine months.Today Elin receives her doctorate in a ceremony at the Université de MontreealandTomorrow is Emmanuel's birthday.Such fun! I'm taking the day off....
Dove Body Wash ad sends mixed message
A Dove ad for VisibleCare Creme Body Wash sends a mixed message. The models in the ad feature a curvy black woman, a Latina and a slim white woman. The…
Splitting the Dippers
We finally got a bit of clarity from Jack Layton on an issue he has danced around for the better part of the past decade:It’s official: Layton backs 50%-plus-one rule…
Have Our Elites Lost Their Minds?
I am beginning to think so, given the title of John Ibbitson's column today: Things fall apart, Liberals cannot hold – the NDP is loosed upon the world Jesus on…
A Place For Liberalism
"Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism…
Haydn Makes You Healthy
Well not just Haydn, or classical music for that matter – a recent study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has shown that the greater an individual’s engagement…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for May 27, 2011
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:PayPal sues Google over trade secrets - http://goo.gl/dN4xrPrisoners would be forced to work under Ontario Conservative leader's proposal - CTV.ca…
What Alison said (and deBeauxOs, and Dr. Dawg … )
And while we're on the subject, the inimitable and indispensible Alison over at Creekside sums up the whole police-brutality, civilian-oversight thing as only she can. Go read it now. Update:…
Poll: majority of Canadians support constitutional talks to reform Senate
It seems a new poll is out that says Canadians are more then willing right now to re-open the Constitution to do such things as Senate reform: After almost two…
Dirt Devil – The Exorcist
Time for a bit of levity ’round here. Enjoy this Dirt Devil commercial.:^) Dirt Devil-The Exorcist from MrPrice2U on Vimeo. via: Jesus Needs New PR
Watch Iran short documentary: Interrupted Lives
Since the Iranian Revolution (also known as the Islamic Revolution) of 1979, at least 1600 students have been executed in Iran for their ideas, thoughts, speech, beliefs, and social activism.…
Eddie Long settles lawsuit
A Long/church spokeman says the settlement between four young men and New Birth Missionary Baptist Church after months of mediation was “the most reasonable road for everyone to travel.” No…
by design or by default, a low-key alberta party leadership race.
A small crowd of around 80 interested Edmontonians gathered to hear the candidates seeking the leadership of the Alberta Party this week at MacEwan University in downtown Edmonton. It is…