“Without any changes, Canada will be hard-pressed to provide any social or institutional programs beyond seniors’ income supplements and health care. In this light, opposition parties’ efforts to panic Canadians…
New airport screening rules introduced by the Harper Conservatives appears to have the side-effect of banning trans Canadians from flying entirely. Section 5.2(1)C of the Aeronautics Act now states that…
“Babe Ruth changed baseball; Jackie Robinson changed America.” The man who broke the colour barrier in professional sports and was a civil rights pioneer, Jackie Robinson, was born this day…
What happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable. No nuclear weapons. No huge military-industrial complex. Universal…
Here we go again. Kris Sims of QMI’s Parliamentary Bureau tells the nation this a.m. that “Conservative backbenchers are rekindling their fight to abolish the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Four Tories…
A main cause of deforestation in South America and Asia has been clearing land for palm oil production. Palm oil has become a major source of biodiesel, a supposedly green…
Three big birthdays today: Nolan Ryan turns 65; Justin Timberlake is 31 and; Scotch Tape is 82. WFDS
Columnist says four Conservative MPs have presented petitions in the House of Commons calling for the CBC to be defunded or sold to private industry.
LeadNow has launched a campaign to Re-Imagine the CBC.
Khalid Aba-Alkhail, Manal AlSaigh, and Waleed Alghaithy, three physicians from Saudi Arabia, have filed a lawsuit against the University of Ottawa for over $150 million dollars. The doctors were enrolled…
The first day of Parliament 2012 and the Conservatives are already strangling debate. As we have seen in previous years the Conservative MPs unable to speak for themselves got up…
Since Citizens United paved the way for the wealthy to buy U.S. political candidates outright, there is more for Americans to worry about than losing their democracy, though that is…
Ian Miller, blogging over at ImpactedNurse.com, notes a disturbing trend in Australia, one, I’m afraid, is becoming more common in North America. “These days,” he writes, “being a nurse is…
OTTAWA — Real gross domestic product unexpectedly edged down 0.1 per cent in November after showing no growth in October, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday. Lower output in the energy sector…
The first and foremost thing that must be said is that the people of Syria, who have resisted an utterly vicious military repression of their aspirations for nearly a year,…
Statistics Canada reported today that the economy shrank in November for the first time in six months. This decline was driven by reduced energy production, which partly reflected maintenance shutdowns…
And as usual, Miss Piggy gets the best lines.
When the government is funding companies to lie to us about simple things like flouride, what is it good for?
One of the hot topics of discussion right now involves the speculation that the Harper Government™ intends to raise the eligibility age for Old Age Security (OAS) and the Guaranteed…
