Earlier this week, the NDP and other Federal opposition parties released the findings of their Canada-wide public consultations on Stephen Harper’s Budget Implementation Act, Bill C-38. Yesterday, the parties submitted…
Here’s the second part of my freewheeling interview with environmental artist and activist Franke James. We discuss the pro-active philosophy that guides her visual essays, including her most recent essay…
Here's the second part of my freewheeling interview with environmental artist and activist Franke James. We discuss the pro-active philosophy that guides her visual essays, including her most recent essay…
Here’s the second part of my freewheeling interview with environmental artist and activist Franke James. We discuss the pro-active philosophy that guides her visual essays, including her most recent essay…
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Entrepreneur and successful executive Jeff Church founded Nika Water to create a thriving social enterprise that supports clean water projects in impoverished countries. In this inspiring lecture, Church lays out…
In her comment on one of Susan Riley’s recent columns in The Ottawa Citizen, Cathleen Kneen writes: There is a clear pattern here, from proroguing Parliament to the omnibus “budget”…
For all the reasons listed here and one more. I’m not fighting that fight again. I’m not fighting to keep someone out of the leadership. I’ll fight to get someone…
The first two lines — “Because I could not stop for Death,/He kindly stopped for me” — must be among the greatest opening lines of any poem. Death Because I…
Yesterday I got a glimpse of the kind of democratic expression that is considered acceptable under the Harper regime. It is one that I found profoundly disturbing. Almost a week…
Kike. Don’t like that? Too bad. Nigger. Faggot. Paki. Chink. Don’t like those, either? Again, too bad. As of last week, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government made it a lot easier…
Quebec student group CLASSE has come forward with an offer of what it would take to end their almost four-month strike: the elimination of tuition fees by 2016. The plan…
Yes! Female pilot tosses passenger off flight for making sexist remarks: A Brazilian airline says one of its female pilots tossed a passenger off a flight because he was making…
If you are a hockey fan, especially one from Toronto, Niagara and parts in between, you surely know the name Rick Jeanneret. The ultimate homer, Mr. Jeanneret has been doing…
R. v. Roy, 2012 SCC 26 considers the fault component of a charge of dangerous driving: Dangerous driving causing death is…
Here’s a video out of small-town New Brunswick that’s gone viral, From Sussex and I Know It. The lyrics are a little hard to understand, but I’ve copied them below:…
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Seriously, a ‘gay bomb’? My guess is they got to the testing stage and discovered that making soldiers sexually irresistible to one another actually made them more efficient, vicious killers.…
It's not obvious al-Assad will be forced from power. He may survive, albeit on a mountain of corpses. Clearly that's his gamble although he may have lost control of his…
The foundation for the gains that have been made in New Brunswick over the past several years has been dismantled and shut down for good. The screen image above is…
