This past weekend trade investment lawyer, Gus Van Harten, spent his time in his basement, rifling through old files. He knew that somewhere, buried in piles of international investment and…
What do you get when you round up an enthusiastic group of digital rights experts, online innovators and advocates of Net Freedom – all with the purpose of taking any…
If there was one message that stirred me during Monday’s Defend Our Coast action, it was this: First Nations need you to join the fight to protect British Columbia’s forests…
First the Giants of San Francisco knock them out of the hunt for the World Series and now this. Every paper in the world reports that Pope Benedict is bringing…
Says so on the front page of your home delivered Ottawa Citizen. The story actually says that Tim Hudak, the suburban Buffalo boy who grew up to lead the Progressive…
Dr. John Mashey’s report is posted exclusively on DeSmogBlog today. The report, exposing the right wing’s money scrubbing scheme, is extensive in detail to say the least. In a nutshell,…
Kevin Logan- Cowichan Conversations Contributor Here is another Post from Cowichan Conversations Contributor Kevin Logan. Kevin Logan’s career has been diverse, ranging from small business to NGOs through finance and…
A federal politician doing what federal politicians are supposed to do: you know, be leaders. Promote tolerance. Oppose division and nativism. Show courage. Stephen Harper and Thomas Mulcair? They’re cowards.…
Maybe it’s because I was, at least in the first six or seven years of my life on this planet, a “slow learner” and had to spend Grades One and…
From AlterNet –
A Massachusetts court has unsealed the transcripts of a 20-year old divorce case between the CEO of Staples and his wife that could spell the end of Mitch Romney’s chances…
Today the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the law governing Canada’s elections is less important than the principle of elections: that everyone has the right to vote, even if…
What you see to the left is part of the cash that Guy Suprenant, the Montreal engineer who accept wads of money for boosting payments to dishonest contractors, turned over…
In a breathtaking turnaround, Premier Clark has decided that when natural gas power is used to concentrate natural gas into a liquefied form it is no longer a nasty old…
Meet Canadian businessman, V. Prem Watsa. He’s the founder, CEO, Chairman and 45% shareholder of Fairfax Financial, a Canadian insurance and investment management company. Fairfax, in turn, owns a Connecticut…
… are, ahem, lacking in civility. Yup, can’t argue with that. But. Seriously. Mr. Del Mastro. This is coming from a government MP whose party has been the LEAST civil…
Patton-Casse v. Casse, 2012 ONCA 709 is a source for the principle that the rights of appeal from arbitrations can be varied by prior agreement: The appeal judge correctly identified…
Blame UCLA professor Don Tashkin for the confusion. Tashkin, a professor of pulmonology at the David Geffin School of Medicine, has been “the guy” on the perils of pot smoking…
Big story in this morning’s Times-Colonist headlined “Severed head found in Edmonton alley; link to body probed.” Apparently the Edmonton police are trying to figure out if there’s any possible…
Below is a recent editorial from the New York Times that does an excellent job of summarizing the failures of austerity policies. The NYTimes also published a very good analysis…
