Eventually people will have to get it through their heads that cleaner alternative energy isn’t just for tree-hugging hippies. Eventually these energy sources — along with energy conservation, reducing/re-using other…
Postmedia's Mike De Souza uploaded this Environment Canada presentation on to Scribd and it is getting a fair amount of attention. Notably, it includes some information on the dollar costs…
There's rightly been plenty of debate over the Sask Party's recently-announced plan to. But there looks to me to be room to take a closer look at exactly what Brad…
He isn't my co worker now but when I was Al Knight All Night on 710CJRN I had the thrill of working with the great Rick Jeanneret.WGR in Buffalo reports…
Perhaps the Canadian electorate is salvageable, after all.Recommend this Post
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger Everywhere we look our democracy is compromised, in some cases it is underwater. From many of our local government bodies to the senior levels democratic processes…
Queer choir Tone Cluster, which has been adding a touch of harmony to Ottawa's performing arts scene since 1994, will stage a concert called Red on Saturday, Nov 17. Red…
In a recent interview, Archbishop Desmond Tutu - a leading figure in the fight against apartheid in South Africa and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize - stated that…
Step over the fiscal cliff, Americans!The fiscal cliff has been described as a fiscal suicide pact by some gloomy British obervers:There has to be an agreement. If the two sides…
There are three concepts to describe the positions of individuals in Stephen Harper’s Canada: intelligence, decency and Harper-Conservatism. If a Canadian is intelligent and a Harper-Conservative, that person is not…
One of the most frustrating aspects of being in a master’s program after already having worked full-time in a communications office and knowing what I want to continue working in…
Justin Trudeau - realpolitiek practitionerJohn Ibbitson in the Globe & Mail comments on the plans of the Trudeau team to use the changed constitution of the Liberal Party of Canada…
Elin and her friends are heading for Victoria today, to round out their Western tour. They got a lovely feature in Vancouver's Georgia Straight, and sound like their audiences have…
… other than my own curiousity. Simcoe-Grey MP Kellie Leitch’s spending is about 21% less than the spending of our former Member of Parliament, based on the latest figures released…
Tokelau is a small island in the Pacific that has switched it’s entire power grid to solar, this is the first of a few islands in the region that will…
by OSSTF/FEESP After postponing sanctions for five days, Ken Coran, President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation announced early this morning that discussions with the Provincial Government have ended…
Negotiations between the government and OSSTF (the union representing public secondary school teachers) have ended. Harvey Bischof, vice president for the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, told the Ottawa Citizen…
Voters in Newfoundland and Labrador have a new political definition: to crummell: to have one's opinion completely reversed in a nanosecond by the whim of another. There may well be…
Sao Paolo, Brazil – 140 people have died in the last two weeks in battles between police and inner-city gangs. Be hard to be held in lower esteem. This was…
Uganda is poised to officially pass the ‘Kill The Gays’ bill at the end of 2012 despite massive international criticism. "Referring to the law as a ‘Christmas gift’ to the…
