Dr. Rajendra Kale suggests withholding the gender of a fetus from a mother to avoid a gender selective abortion. As a legal matter, absent legislation, such withholding is not possible…
ARTHUR ASHE
I’m late in writing today. The problem I’m having is that today’s Moncton Times and Transcript was almost entirely frivolous and pointless. It wasn’t just the usual mix of ads…
If you have been surfing the internet lately, you might have seen various ads and user posts against something called SOPA. Alternatively, if you opened a paper today, you probably…
First answer: This is not our way of doing things so I would be extremely surprised if it came from us – Guy Caron, NDP MP and Quebec caucus chairSecond…
As the Occupy Ottawa website reported earlier, on Sunday, December 11, 2011, more than 100 people packed O’Reilly’s Pub in Perth to hear speakers from the Occupy Ottawa movement talk…
Listen to Damien Gillis on CHLY’s A Sense of Justice from last week, discussing Enbridge and Kinder-Morgan’s proposed Tar Sands pipelines through BC. Damien and host Rae Kornberger cover the…
And in other good news… Real Time with Bill Maher is back from hiatus! In case you missed it, the entire show can be watched here.
… And Avoid Going to Copps That was the terribly witty headline in The Winnipeg Sun this morning. Never mind the snarky double-entendre; both are welcome developments arising from this…
One of the aspects of the “BC education plan” most touted by the government recently is the notion of grouping students by ability, rather than age. A quick perusal through…
Last week it was revealed that Roshi Chadha, an asbestos exporter , sat on the board of the Canadian Red Cross,certainly someone an organistion like the Red Cross would be…
Rupert Murdoch has had his hands full of late. He has been exploring his ‘human side’ with a Twitter account. No coincidence of course that he has taken to a…
Greg D’Cunha (Delegate from Whitby-Oshawa, Ontario.) On Sunday morning, delegates at the Liberal Biennial Convention voted against Priority Resolution 114 which urged that Parliament “form an all party committee to…
Austerity, we have been told repeatedly by pundits and political leaders, is the defining issue in these uncertain times, the solution to our economic challenges. We have been given fair…
Looking back on my three days in Ottawa for the 2012 Liberal Party of Canada biennial convention it’s impossible to craft one clear narrative – did delegates embrace bold change…
In his acceptance speech for theNobel Prize in 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ushers words of gratitude to those who helped build the foundations of change he valiently stood…
shook down on me/ the dust of snow …as it snowboarded down a roof, tells me we might want to rethink our humanocentric notion of being separate from, and above,…
For a limited time—today and tomorrow (Jan 16 and 17) only—Doc Alliance has reduced streaming prices to zero (yes that means free) for five Avi Mograbi documentaries. Mograbi is an…
The open letter below was written to Canada’s Premiers from the Presidents of Provincial and Territorial Federations of Labour: An open letter to Canada’s Premiers: Labour leaders call on Premiers…
Not unnoticed by me is Robert Fenton’s likely last post at Nurse XY. This a real loss — Robert is a truly gifted writer, and always has something interesting and…
