HeDippedTheLightFandango ALongLongTimeAgoVille Joan Bryden, of the Canadian Press, zooms in on the present day Bob Rae: The (recently-released) Harris-Decima survey conducted for The Canadian Press indicates the New Democrats surged…
Another canoe tripping question. Trip planning is fun but there’s too many variables, I tell you. And if you’re travelling in one of Ontario’s managed parks, it matters how far…
Political scientist and Canadian Dimension collective member Dennis Pilon discusses what the federal budget reveals about Stephen Harper’s Plan for Reshaping Canada. Canadian Dimension collective member Andrea Levy talks about…
On April 4, 1968, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death in Memphis. The killer James Earl Ray fled to London, England, via Ottawa. He…
I’m off to destinations unknown until next week, with little to no blogging in the interim. Enjoy the long weekend in the meantime!
Dan Tan weighs in on Thomas Mulcair’s principled position on Iran – which may come as a pleasant surprise to anybody concerned that he’d be more interested in appealing to…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Frances Russell comments on the Canada which the Harper Cons are determined to destroy. But the more important point looks to me to…
With the announcement of 650 job cuts at the CBC I’m left with one very poignant thought: when will the CBC learn? When will they learn that the Conservatives have…
French and English numbers. Lee Berthiaume at The Ottawa Citizen reports that New Brunswick anglophone and Canadian Auditor General Michael Ferguson figures he should be speaking French like a guy…
If reported correctly this is sloppy police work. Photographic identifications, especially of strangers seen on just one occasion, are famously unreliable. ID from a Facebook page is preposterous — the…
Hey they want to use our dollar, at least Iceland does, and they are kind of like Newfoundland in terms of economic culture. Plus I hear it is a good…
Would someone enlighten me. They seem awfully expensive. Honestly, would you tell me why? WFDS
It took long enough but our media are finally coming to realize that the Harper regime is no longer fit to govern. Andrew Coyne writes of a “government in collapse.”…
"That view is based on the error that all people are equal. Blacks are on the whole less intelligent than whites." – Paul Fromm Oh hi. First a brief introduction.…
Wrestlemania 28 Highlights Wrestlemania is the granddaddy of all WWE pay-per-views, so I am going to give it proper treatment. I am going to review each segment and match in…
It seems Brian Stewart has been a CBC defence wonk since the days of muzzle loaders and black powder. That makes his take on the F-35 fiasco all the more…
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature health care reform bill, had its three days in the Supreme Court last week, and by most accounts it…
A handy-dandy primer to print out and distribute to all the confused fundies you might know. I suggest leaving a few hundred copies in the tracts rack at your nearest…
So this article here just came to my attention. I have written a few different articles about debt and our housing market lately. On March 21st I published “Canada and…
Finance expert says speculators are behind high oil and gasoline prices, David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Financial speculators are gambling on oil the same way they gambled on…
