The_Heartland_Institute_logo.png This week, as the Heartland Institute commences its annual conference, the organization is clearly back on its heels. Funders, experts, and even some staff are bailing, reports The Guardian.…
Today, May 21st is the day 69 of my indefinite hunger strike protesting Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s cruel new crime law, the deceptively christened “Safe Streets and Communities Act”, formerly…
heartland.jpg ANY conference worth its salt needs a nice long list of sponsors to give the impression of widespread diverse support for whatever the conference organisers are advocating. In the…
So, I’ve released ‘Toronto‘, a living gallery of photographs taken in Canada’s largest city. Frequently vibrant, at times dreamlike and often gritty, ‘Toronto’ captures the light, the dark and the…
Another Monday and my hugelkultur piles aren’t done; in fact they are growing daily; I didn’t realize they were like rabbits, and would start reproducing at a crazy rate! As…
Because this is what the other side does. My French isn’t good enough to follow the conversation very precisely, but that doesn’t really matter. There is nothing anyone could have…
Anarchopanda meets the Socialist Squirrel! The Quebec Student Protests is the most unnecessarily protracted protest in recent memory. This isn’t about whether or not you think the Charest government is…
We can thank Chris Hedges and his colleagues for this. They had the guts to sue Obama and Panetta to challenge the constitutionality of the National Defence Authorization Act and,…
The Quebec flag is up in front of our place on this Journée des Patriotes. One of the little known things about the Rebellions of 1837-38 (the nearest thing Canada…
Former CBC vice president for English Services says it’s going to be very difficult to compete against the all-sports cable networks when it comes time for the public broadcaster to…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Robert Cross and Glen McGregor point out how “Pierre Poutine” covered his tracks in the course of sending out fraudulent robocalls to direct…
Yet another display of shameless brutality from the City of Montreal Police Service (SPVM). This gem shows "Constable 728" pepper-spraying protesters in an obvious abuse of power. Stay classy SPVM.…
Yet another display of shameless brutality from the City of Montreal Police Service (SPVM). This gem shows “Constable 728” pepper-spraying protesters in an obvious abuse of power. Stay classy SPVM.…
Yet another display of shameless brutality from the City of Montreal Police Service (SPVM). This gem shows "Constable 728" pepper-spraying protesters in an obvious abuse of power. Stay classy SPVM.…
Yet another display of shameless brutality from the City of Montreal Police Service (SPVM). This gem shows “Constable 728” pepper-spraying protesters in an obvious abuse of power. Stay classy SPVM.…
The Olympic Torch continues to wend its way to London to open the 2012 Summer Games, sort of. Problems began at the lighting ceremony in Greece where it blew out…
Columnist says the upcoming regulatory hearing follows Canada’s public broadcaster slashing jobs and programming to absorb government cuts.
An awful lot of people are chiming in to tell Thomas Mulcair that he should stop talking about Dutch Disease. I hope he ignores them. There is certainly room for…
Or at least it does according to president Obama fresh from the NATO leaders summit in Chicago. Gen. John Allen, commander of the NATO forces in Afghanistan, told reporters that…
Horrible news for pizza lovers out of Italy via Agence France Presse. Sunday’s quake in northeastern Italy destroyed more than 300,000 wheels of Parmesan and Grana Padano, a similar cheese,…
