We Need Uninformed Voters As Much As We Need Informed Ones
Just as you need a brain and a heart, a country needs voters who know the issues and voters that don’t. As the election for the American President looms, after…
Just as you need a brain and a heart, a country needs voters who know the issues and voters that don’t. As the election for the American President looms, after…
“The P.E.I. New Democratic Party elected Mike Redmond as the new leader of the provincial party Saturday afternoon in a landslide vote. Federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is on P.E.I.…
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A recent poll has the Alberta Liberal Party 40% up on their election numbers. Another poll has the federal Liberals up some 5 points, overshadowing the NDP and on the…
TweetConservative candidate Joan Crockatt and Green candidate Chris Turner are no longer alone in Calgary-Centre, as the field of candidates is filling out. Time is also running out for Prime…
I needed to go to Toronto today, and had to cross King Street in Waterloo at the start of my trip. But there was a run of some sort going…
A long-standing complaint concerning Quebec navel-gazing by the CBC’s French-language news service has been revived as the national broadcast regulator considers Radio-Canada’s licence renewal.
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes – Political Blogger Cowichan Conversations received a lengthy email from Mr. Glen Spicer and a number of supporting artists regarding the “Community Mural.” I appreciate you stopping…
It’s rare to see depictions of Havana that don’t consist of the stereotypes: people playing music, someone sitting on the street smoking a cigar, old American cars, stunning old buildings.…
Quote: is a quick, but powerful and inciting read. And if you’re on the progressive side, especially if you’re an activist, you should read it and take it to heart–as,…
We all have issues with The Facebook. For Canadian Neo-Nazi Kevin Goudreau, they appear to centre around the fact that its founder Mark Zuckerberg is Jewish, not around the fact…
With the news full of Amanda Todd, many of us have gone into some deep reflection of school years where we were harassed and tormented on a daily basis. We…
Assorted material to end your weekend. – Chrystia Freeland comments on the self-destructive nature of elite protectionism: (E)ven as the winner-take-all economy has enriched those at the very top, their…
A picture is worth a thousand words, at least when it’s a photo of an estimated thousand people who gathered on a San Fransisco beach to call for the end…
Like the autumn leaves, the myths about the F-35 stealth light bomber are finally falling. Now it’s beginning to emerge that the F-35 may just be the warplane our potential…
What is the matter in Ottawa? No, I don’t mean in that big brown building on the banks of the river.I mean in the city of Ottawa itself, with its…
The European Union A struggle for the future of Europe is being waged right now by the politicians of the EU. Most of the fighting is being done by the…
Arctic sea ice reached a record low of 3.42 million square kilometres on September 16, 2012, surpassing by 18 percent the record set in 2007 of 4.17 million square kilometres.…
Andrew Duffy, in an article syndicated by Postmedia, made the logical equivalent of mixing metaphors when he used the Canada Health Act (CHA) to legitimize the use of private clinics.…