The following originally appeared at nottawa on September 2, 2009 as a comment on the emergency session of the legislature to deal with changes to legislation about the Churchill River.…
Kingston, Ontario, December 9, 2012 – At approximately 8:00 a.m., on December 9, 2012, inmates at Joyceville Institution initiated a peaceful protest on one range. Despite negotiations, the protest escalated…
Austerity measures in Spain have increased taxes on nearly everything. Tax on theatre tickets was bumped from 8 to 21 percent, and in an already challenging economy, theatre companies were…
In Fissures appear in scientists’ assurances about safety of fracking, Globe and Mail writer Mark Hume describes how industry used the work of Charles Groat, of the Energy Institute at…
This talk, by Ray Pierrehumbert, is an excellent response to Naomi Oreskes’ observation that: “climate scientists are so busy talking about stuff they don’t understand that they never get around…
by Forest Ethics: An in-depth review of shareholder information from Bloomberg shows that 71 per cent of all tar sands production is owned by non-Canadian shareholders. Supposedly Canadian companies (with…
Well I suppose we should have known eh?This is after all Con Canada, home of the Porky Action Plan.But it turns out that if we want to know what's in…
I couldn’t resist posting this. According to the CBC: “A monkey wearing a miniature shearling coat and diapers was collected by animal services on Sunday afternoon, after shoppers spotted the…
Jonathan Kay, and dozens of his yahoo commenters, can whine to their heart’s content about the unfairness of the Montreal Massacre, and they can complain about how Judy Rebick hurts…
After much thought and watching the candidates in action over the last few weeks, I’m going to follow my head and my heart and endorse Sandra Pupatello for Ontario Liberal…
In the course of but one week Steve Harper deals a massive blow to America’s biggest and plainly distressed defence contractor and approves the transfer, to America’s biggest geopolitical rival,…
What is the relationship between mind and matter? Materialism holds that the mental is a product of the physical – the mind is what the brain does. By contrast, dualist…
It has been a very busy 6 months for us. I apologize to all of you who link to us and all of the awesome people out there who come…
Samson. He brought the house down.
I don’t think this is a new thing, you may recall the St. Louis and Louis Riel if you don’t believe, but the occasions of nasty in Canada still baffle…
Please share this video and make our voices heard! We have the power to make a difference in our education! On Monday, December 10th, 2012 at 10:00 am, we are…
Ok, people. We all love our community, and our fabulous mainstreet is one of the reasons we love it so much. We walk to shop, and there are some wonderful,…
Canada’s best Tar Sands journo, Andrew Nikiforuk, reveals the rank desperation that drove Stephen Harper into the service of China’s Communist regime on the Nexen takeover. It’s an ugly story…
R. v. Ellis, 2012 NLCA 75 considers the curative provision of the Criminal Code and holds its application is exceptional: The onerous test that is to be applied by this…
