Two of Canada’s biggest media conglomerates, Bell and Rogers, are partnering up. Their goal? To take control of the iconic Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment group. The CRTC approved the…
Our Executive Director, Steve, popped online during his vacation to suggest we put together a blog entry about how OpenMedia.ca’s online petitions have been effective. He noted that a lot…
I’ve been to Marineland once, and also to Seaworld in Orlando on one occasion as a child. I won’t be going back. And frankly, I wish I’d never gone in…
This article in Christianity Today, The Second Coming Christ Controversy, is going to generate discussion in North American evangelical circles. While the piece centres around the Southern Baptist Convention and…
Real journalist David Akin is slamming supposedly-fake journalist Sixth Estate for doing the job that Canada’s news media and press gallery are just too busy to do. And he implies…
Bunge’s $200-million US grain port at Longview, Wash. Below, U.S. police and strikers scuffle at the port. Back in 2009, when the destruction of the Canadian Wheat Board was still…
That’s likely the message Harper FinMin and garden gnome Jim Flaherty will get when he gets together with his future employers top Canadian CEOs for his annual summer “policy retreat.”…
Games are being played here and the fix is in.The hysterical anger of the British foreign office toward Equador supports the idea that the whole rape accusation against Wikileaks’ Julian…
I saw The Horses Mouth as a movie in my senior year of high school. I had read the novel, given as a gift by my cousin, a corrupting and…
Why, yes, it does. I plan to write further about this, after Friday morning’s demos to fee Pussy Riot. Try and be there, wherever you live.
Oh, let’s go with some music even though it’s not Friday. This is a good one and it’s not even house music. Mumford & Sons. Babel, the roots-rock superstars’ follow-up…
– proposed United Church boycott of products from Israeli settlements Distortion #1: Why Israel? The world is full of tyranny and injustice. Of all the places and issues, why boycott…
One of Canada's enduring mythologies is that during the NDP reign in Ontario from 1990 to 1995 a whole plethora of woe was inflicted as the result of Bob Rae…
One of Canada’s enduring mythologies is that during the NDP reign in Ontario from 1990 to 1995 a whole plethora of woe was inflicted as the result of Bob Rae…
The protest-driven advertiser revolt against Rush Limbaugh seems deeper than might have been expected. Cumulus Media, a major affiliate of Rush Limbaugh’s show reported millions of dollars in losses attributable…
As I get older, I sometimes feel like a character from the X-Files, one of the recurring motifs of which was “Trust No One.’ I think I have lived long…
Someone was convicted of murdering British businessman Neill Heywood in Beijing, only it might not have been the accused, Gu Kailai, the wife of the disgraced politician Bo Xilai. The…
“You can have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, or democracy. But you cannot have both.” Louis Brandeis (1856-1941), Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1916-1939)
*My apologies to the good hard-working people of the global cottage and cottage cheese industries and the good people of the Balkans for once again being sullied by Western analyst-cum-charlatans.…
"This disheartening news comes as a huge disappointment for those who understand the social, cultural, historical, environmental and economic benefits of passenger rail. CAPT will continue to fight for passenger…
