Recently, the Putin regime in Russia extended the pre-trial detention of 3 members of the feminist punk group “Pussy Riot” until January 2013. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich…
Former Liberal Environment Minister David Anderson has slammed both the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal and the would-be pipeline operator, Enbridge. Anderson says the pipeline is not in Canada’s best interests…
‘Operation Olympics’ – the sporting extravaganza underway in London, won’t come cheap. Some estimates put the cost to the British taxpayer at around $17 billion. Other estimates put it higher…
The Republicans are obviously stuck with the notion that it takes a business whiz to make a good president of the United States. That’s how they wound up with Mitt…
By now, most of you are aware that a second athlete from Europe has been ejected from the London Olympics for racism. Swill soccer player Michel Morganella got the boot…
Last week we witnessed what might be termed a feeding frenzy as the msm wrote a few stories about a simple little picture posted first on Warren Kinsella's website (and…
Barbara Ehrenreich: Why Are Working People Invisible in the Mainstream Media? | Alternet We need something like the Economic Hardship Reporting Project here in Canada too, for, in case you…
The latest issue of the Canadian Tax Journal has a number of articles on Tax-Free Savings Accounts. Among the papers of interest: Kevin Milligan projects the potential tax impact of…
...as little as possible. Then: ….Enbridge representatives went door to door promising that they would pay for spill damages, Mayhall said. Now:“The statements at issue, that were made in Defendants’…
“The first AFL preseason game. The Boston Patriots beat the Buffalo Bills 28-7 before 16,474 fans in Buffalo. 1960.” Thanks to Len Berman’s That’s Sports. Bet this will make Buffalo…
The shirt was signed by Canadian author Margaret Atwood and it was sold on eBay.
When Courtney Love caught wind of Lana Del Ray's live cover of Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box," Love took to Twitter to remind pop's most perlustrated princess that the song is in…
Hintonburg, Ottawa boy Paul Anka has 71 candles on his cake today. WFDS
It’s here – to stay. Let’s call it “megadrought.” And what the States is getting now could be considered, “the wet end of a drier hydroclimate period.” From the oh-so…
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Hey his Jimmy character on Degrassi was all set to play at the next level before he got shot and ended up in a wheelchair so it seems just right…
At a recent event in Vancouver, it fell to the President of Vancouver Kingsway, Alex Burton, to introduce me before I spoke. I was somewhat surprised when instead of the…
“We’re here to stay. We’ll do anything that we need to, to protect our land and sea.” – Hieltsuk Chief Councilor Marilyn Slett B.C.’s unelected, unelectable and outgoing premier, Christie…
Over the years, your support has allowed us to build some pretty awesome pro-Internet tools. One of the things we like most about the Internet is the way it levels…
