The dreaded velociraptor is looking less and less like a Spielbergian nightmare, and more like something you could safely serve with cranberries. New research into the fossilized forearm discovered in…
After sacking a dozen staffers in June, the St. Catherine’s Standard figures they no longer need to own their own building. The decision was facilitated by the fact that most…
Herescope: Sacred Cows and Stars The Cult of Evangelical Leadership From the earliest days of the modern evangelical movement the church followed the same sociological patterns as the culture at…
It's Thanksgiving Day in Canada. The day when you realize that summer isn't coming back.And a day when I feel particularly close to our U.S. neighbours. For although they don't…
“If it ain’t Alberta, it ain’t beef!” Not any more, though, thanks to the efforts of Alberta politicians, companies and the federal food inspection agency. From left to right above:…
Hugo Chavez has won a historic victory in the hotly contested Venezuelan election. With 90% of the ballot tallied Chavez took 54.42% of the vote to 44.97% for opposition candidate,…
We Canadians can be a pretty dense lot at times. Oh we love to complain, to bitch and moan, but then we just roll over, and we never even expect…
Hugo Chavez has once again done one of the things he does best: Win. Once again, we have a deeply progressive president of Venezuela. In your face, neoliberal rich dudes!…
Here is a compilation of speeches from Daw Suu Kyi during her visit to US in September 2012. This was compiled by Canadian Friends of Burma. http://www.cfob.org U.S-Burma/Myanmar Relations –…
In recent months the Canadian airline industry has been pushing, hard, for lower costs. Not content with having the Harper regime order its employees to work under threat of legal…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Here is the latest from CFIA about the addidtions to the foods that are unfit for consumption. Many of these are items “Voluntarily recalled” by XL…
Oct. 6, 2012: A passerby reads a leaflet distributed by Peace Alliance Winnipeg in Osborne Village. Photo: Paul S. Graham Activists in at least 6 Canadian cities joined in the…
Needless to say, the Regina Chamber of Commerce’s attempts to paint concerns about its purporting to speak on behalf of the City as having anything to do with free speech…
ermites and their collective consciousness raise some thought provoking questions about humanity. If termites can only express their true genetic identity in the amassed presence of their numbers — only…
… will be interesting to see. What will be even more interesting is to see if both sides respect the results. If, as Chavez is quoted as saying in this…
We are in Burlington, Vermont, for a wedding. We drove here on Friday, a nice drive mostly through blue skies and autumn colours. On Saturday, we found a public library…
I still don’t have cable or satellite at my residence, so the internet remains the chief source of entertainment. Thanks to the resident love goddess however we now have a…
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Tony Clement, the President of Treasury Board, would like Canadians to believe that Kevin Page, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, is operating outside his mandate when he requests details on how…
by Marian Wang | ProPublica More than a decade after Aurora Almendral first set foot on her dream college campus, she and her mother still shoulder the cost of that…
