Ontario’s doctors are fighting back after the government unilaterally cut $340 million in fees last month. The Ontario Medical Association is applying to the Ontario Supreme Court of Justice for…
Various international efforts are currently in the works to lock down the Internet, but University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist reports that the global pro-Internet movement made some gains…
In the interest of being my own game changer, I’m boycotting all manipulative provocateurs and the alarmist spin machines they rode in on. These folks are spoiling for a fight…
It’s not easy to explain how RuPaul’s Drag Race – especially season 4 – is more than just a bunch of big boys in big girls’ heels, to paraphrase contestant…
Tweet Two quick updates to the list of municipal by-elections being held across Alberta over the summer months. Joe Anglin Wayne Clark and Scott Ellis are contesting a by-election in…
I had an experience yesterday that served only to deepen my cynicism about the mainstream press (The Toronto Star being the sole exception). I called The Hamilton Spectator’s Stephanie Crozier…
Very interesting report out of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives today. This is the kind of cage-rattling that the Harper government wants to stop. According to their press release:…
The Premier who many people have written off dozens of time before, just in this past year alone, came out with a middling performance last night in two by-elections in…
R. v. Ferrari, 2012 ONCA 399 finds that, where the special mens rea requirements for murder are met, a person can be found guilty of first degree murder as a…
* There is mounting alarm and opposition across Canada, even among many conservatives, about the Harper government’s omnibus budget bill, Bill C-38. Yesterday Parlliamentary Speaker Andrew Scheer (a Conservative MP…
What a huge, huge loss to the Beach and this City. Such a kind and decent man, and what a writer he was. God bless him and his family.
I’ve been working on the short story collection for which I’ve had a grant this year, called Desire Lines: A Geography of Love. I think I’ve got a suite of…
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The 49th night protest in Montreal was peaceful, like most of the nocturnal marches, which is why mainstream media outlets hardly cover them at all. Remember for them, if it…
The 49th night protest in Montreal was peaceful, like most of the nocturnal marches, which is why mainstream media outlets hardly cover them at all. Remember for them, if it…
The 49th night protest in Montreal was peaceful, like most of the nocturnal marches, which is why mainstream media outlets hardly cover them at all. Remember for them, if it…
The 49th night protest in Montreal was peaceful, like most of the nocturnal marches, which is why mainstream media outlets hardly cover them at all. Remember for them, if it…
China has a bagful of environmental challenges. You name it, they got it. Polluted waterways, contaminated air, greenhouse gas emissions that confound attempts to measure them – the lot. When…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Plenty of commentators are rightly speaking out against the Cons’ anti-democratic omnibus bill, including Tim Harper and the Star-Phoenix and Vancouver Sun…
If the Liberals are ever coming back, and that’s a lot more iffy than many of them want to admit, it will be under a leader determined to reverse the…
