BPA Image.jpg Bisphenol A, or BPA for short, has been in the spotlight for decades, with both the chemical industry and occasionally the federal government touting its safety, while independent,…
Song on a May Morning Now the bright morning-star, Day’s harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Michael Harris rightly tears into the Cons for turning our federal government into Versailles on the Ottawa: The Harper government has more than…
The Gobe & Mail announced this morning that RIM is planning large layoffs in the next couple of weeks, probably more than 2,000 of its 16,500 worldwide workforce. I got…
There was a cabinet shuffle in Saskatchewan yesterday. One of the ministers who lost their cabinet spot was Rob Norris. Mr. Norris has been yanked from Wall’s Cabinet because Jason…
Spring came early to Toronto. Summer arrived early too and I don’t like heat. Thank goodness it’s supposed to break next week. But we’re on the way to the island…
To this Conservative government, anything that might interfere with the mythical free market — and particularly with the market’s downward pressure on wages — is anathema. The above is just…
CCACs hire 144 direct care nurses This month the government announced 900 new nursing positions to come from their 2007 commitment to 9,000 new nurses for the health system. Among…
This story does leave me in two minds. One, who is the UN to dictate to Canada? But the other — the UN has a point. I have seen how…
I have never accepted, and have in fact been openly contemptuous of, the view that autism is a joy, an alternative, even superior way of thinking. My son’s autistic disorder…
Nothing betrays the Calvinist-Social Credit roots of the present government more than this week’s Employment Insurance “reforms.” Tom Walkom writes: Behind this week’s changes to Canada’s Employment Insurance system lie…
This report kind of reminds me of an old spoof on small-town newspapers I once saw, with the headline “Two Local Women Missing in Japan” with almost the entire front…
* Montreal Pots And Pans Video of Protest Against Bill 78 Goes Viral
1906 — INDIANS NEED NOT NAVIGATE TO CANADAThen-Clerk of the Privy Council, Rodolphe Boudreau wrote on the restriction of immigration from the Orient, in particular British East Indians: “Experience has…
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz is hopping mad. He put a civil servant in Guelph, one Bill Teeter, in charge of a spending review in Ottawa, had him travel back and…
A massive thunderstorm hit Montreal this evening. The heavens really opened up. But that didn't stop thousands of people from parading through the streets, beating their pots and pans. Even…
I wasn’t as prepared as I would have liked to have been alas. Today I gave the content strategy workshop, one of two I’m doing at the CALM conference. Here’s…
His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of…
