Colorado shootings: Where is the unstoppable force of public anger? – The Globe and Mail Must-read insightful, caring, responsible journalism. Is it too much to ask that out of respect…
The evidence on the crime rate in Canada is out! Statistics Canada reported yesterday that rate of crimes reported to Canadian police forces across the country reached its lowest level…
Dennis Miller once said that inbreeding is so prevalent in Georgia that “He met a man who was his own father.”This may be the man.WJBF-TV, serving the home of The…
Congratulations to Premier Clark for doing two things at the same time: starting a meaningful dialogue about the environmental concerns behind the export of heavy oil from Canada, and staying…
Will British Columbians stand alone against Alberta’s bitumen pipelines? What I’m reading is that the populations of other provinces seem to support the Northern Gateway and Kinder-Morgan pipeline/bitumen-supertanker initiatives. And…
Delighted to hear this. I would, however, have left ‘Belsen Was A Gas’ out. It wasn’t funny, it wasn’t ironic, and it wasn’t right. (Tabby Southey probably thought it a…
Our problem coping with climate change skeptics could be solved, perhaps, by bringing them out in the open – the lot of them, all at once. Climate change science mainly…
According to this email I received, forwarded by a friend of mine, we have quite a bit of power. At a minimum, the following should give us pause as we…
…that’s a fair metaphor to describe the Ontario Convenience Store Association’s (OCSA) demand that they be permitted to sell booze. (McGuinty has said no, and Hudak has refused to say…
I’m not a fanatical comic book movie watcher. I did go to see “Batman The Dark Knight Rises” Tuesday though, and it was great. It would have helped to have…
… is threatening to take away the power of locally-elected school boards if they do not come to the same contract agreements as did the province with the Catholic Board?…
We have lost confidence in government, provincial and federal, to tackle pressing issues. It seems we have finally realized the people who are at the driver’s seat are asleep at…
…who have suddenly discovered that the provincial economy is in serious need of diversification: a 2010 series called the Fragile Economy. Staying the course (March 2010) Reductio ad argentum (April…
Thousands of scientists, politicans and advocates descended on Washigton DC this week for the first International AIDS conference to be held on American soil in over 20 years. Notable atendees…
More weird climatic stuff going on… though I have two questions: Did they really have satellites in 1889? How can something that happened before be “unprecedented”? Interesting topic – but…
Love this photo, as well as the song by the marvelous Chico Buarque. For lovers of all ages.
First it was housing on the Langara golf course, now paving the last natural foreshore on English Bay. Where are the Vision Vancouver park commissioners going? Do they even know?…
Brent Mazerolle and The Moncton Times and Transcript come through with a real news story and a real lead for p. 1. This is one is well worth having a…
She is not Hyon Song Wol as previously identified. However Ri Sol Ju is a singer too and a good one.
Son Three : That is the most stupidest thing I have ever heard. Son Two, to much laughter:
