Foreign Secretary William Hague and Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird. British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird will sign an agreement to open joint U.K.-Canadian diplomatic…
Thomas Mulcair’s NDP is onto a good thing with its policy of taking steps to stop the continuous hollowing out of the manufacturing industries in Canada. Harper’s Tory government is…
Assorted content to end your weekend. – Jonathan Bernstein comments on how the U.S.’ right-wing echo chamber may be preventing Mitt Romney and other Republicans from recognizing when their spin…
Did anyone else in Ottawa just feel that? I think we just had a small earthquake. Nothing yet on the USGS, but pots rattled, and we felt something for sure!…
Before I start taking an individual look at the candidates in Saskatchewan’s 2013 NDP leadership campaign, I’ll point out a few areas of discussion from past leadership races which don’t…
It is quite good and an appropriate response from ‘Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’. 🙂 CBC, This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Hilarious!
Brace yourself. A report by two professors, one from U.C. Davis, the other from Harvard, contends that income inequality in the United States today is more severe even than it…
One thing I know about caregiving is that it cannot be done well by one person alone. We need friends, family… we need support. And that support is really only…
A cabinet minister from America’s close ally in the War on Terror, Pakistan, is offering a bounty of about $90,000 for the killing of the guy behind the “Innocence of…
Trent Wotherspoon Slogan: Forward Together Initial Thoughts: Again, due to the similarities with Ryan’s “Better Together” slogan, some of the impact is diminished with this slogan. However, despite the similarities,…
Imagine the horror. You’re being threatened by a double amputee (one leg, one arm) in a wheelchair brandishing a pen (presumably in the one hand he uses to propel his…
Sudbury hospital officials expect the shortage of hospital beds in the city will force 4 surgeries a day to be cancelled. Thirty have been cancelled this month. Dr. David Boyle,…
Ryan Meili Slogan: Better Together Initial Thoughts: Unfortunately, the Meili Campaign has fallen into the same problem as the other campaigns; in that the slogan being used is very similar…
Erin Weir Slogan: Principled, Pragmatic, Progressive Initial Thoughts: As I mentioned in Cam’s post, the leadership race is a little bogged down with similar campaign slogans. Cam and Erin both…
It’s the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s business to monitor climate change and changing conditions for agriculture in America. That’s why the USDA has released an updated plant zone map informing…
Despite what the title of the post might say, this is not going to be a close examination of the nuances of the campaigns; rather, as promised, this is going…
In the ongoing series of things I learn every day, this post is the ‘what I learned last night’ flagship. It’s important to learn something every day. My fifth grade…
Mitt Romney wouldn’t be the first really rich man to enter the White House. But, as Robert Reich points out, he’d certainly be a lot different. America has had hugely…
It is a true story, interesting although a bit crazy. Poor Romeo is looking for his Juliet. 🙂 B.C. dentist Dr. Sandy Crocker is in Ireland to search for a…
