On January 25th, 2012, a survey was released on EndProhibition.ca (a pro-NDP anti-prohibition website) where Thomas Mulcair’s campaign stated that he was in favour of decriminalizing cannabis and was very…
If you’re going to write about the Trayvon Martin case, at least pretend to care enough to get the dead kid’s name right: “Trevyor”? Twice?? I am available part-time for…
Although hardly surprising, given both the ideological bent of the Harper regime and earlier warnings from Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver, there is little doubt that the provisions of the…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – If there’s any lesson we should all be able to draw from the past decade in Canadian politics, it’s that anything can happen.…
Martin Luther King, Jr. And his point is well taken — conservative or liberal are just labels. What we all should do is focus on the issues and not the…
My heart sank when I saw the headline “Reuben Cohen speaks out on Moncton High”. Usually, newspapers like The Moncton Times and Transcript use that “speaking out” headline to lead…
The Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) is the primary agency overseeing K-12 public education in Washington state. OSPI works with the state’s 295 school districts to administer basic…
So, I’ve finally got around to watching Raw from Monday. It was a busy week, but I wanted to watch and review this show since it is the last one…
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By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission. If Stephen Harper wants to keep his faith, and how it affects his politics, close to his vest, we can’t fault…
Jim Flaherty came to Toronto yesterday and lambasted Ontario for its poor fiscal management: “Frankly, Ontario’s spending mismanagement is a problem for the entire country,” he said. “They have no…
The Conservatives are a lot of things but probably their strongest quality is that they are shrewd. They’ve built their strength thanks to a wedding of the oil barons of…
If the story is true and Israel does carry out air strikes against Iran then the world is up for a big catastrophe. US and other major forces such as…
If you haven’t seen the abortion-related Doonesbury cartoons that many US newspapers refused to run, you can read them here. Go Garry Go. More importantly, if you would like to…
One of the more maddening refrains we keep hearing OVER and OVER again, the observation that this budget didn’t cut as deep “as expected”. What that insight reveals is that…
With the Toronto Public Library workers back at work after a ten-day strike, here is an assessment of their settlement, from a TPL librarian (my friend and comrade) who is…
While I’ve been traveling in southern Ontario this past week, with little time to spend on the internet, it seems that I and my fellow Canadians have fallen down the…
Rob Nicholson responds to my email. Comments below: Correspondence from the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Thank you for your correspondence concerning the Government’s proposed amendments to…
How green are Arthur C. Clarke’s predictions?
I’m always amazed when I see clips of Clarke predicting how technology will change our lives. The clip above is from 1973. In retrospect, he gets so much right, yet…