Rupert Murdoch 2.jpg When it comes to climate change misinformation, arguably no single person has done more to spread false information to confuse the public than Rupert Murdoch. With his…
When I was a boy in elementary school, we would all stand up and sing at the end of the day when “God Save the Queen” was piped over the…
This is a notable endorsement for Paul Summerville and certainly a heartfelt one from MP Carolyn Bennett: It is an honour to be supporting the candidacy of Paul Summerville for…
In that variety of capitalism we like to call “free market” (because free is a nice word), there is no morality, no responsibility, no mercy. The corporation exists to make…
British PM David Cameron is prepared to roll the dice. He’ll tell the Scots this week they can hold a binding referendum on sovereignty provided, 1) that it be held…
Spain, like Italy, and especially Greece and Ireland, is in the throes of an austerity purge. Some 64% of working Spaniards now take home about a thousand Euros per month.…
Interesting discussion from this weekend’s “Up w/ Chris Hayes” program about the true nature of Mitt Romney’s dubious wealth-extracting endevours in the “free market” as a private equity investor (the…
Finance Canada published its annual Tax Expenditure Report for 2011 and it shows that the cost of some of the most inequitable tax preferences and loopholes continues to rise. For…
Well then how ’bout this? Investors paying a premium to lend money to Germany. That’s right, negative interest. The auction of six-month German government bills on Monday produced a negative…
… Oliver said radicals are “a group of people who don’t take into account the facts but are driven by an ideological imperative.” Errh, like people who keep fighting the…
“Really! It’s in that book you hold up when you scream at gay people.” I came across this great commentary by Bill Maher and had to share it here for…
D’Souza v. Linton, 2012 ONCA 11 holds the Law Society does not, absent special circumstances, have a duty to members of the public at large for the wrongful actions of…
The Harper Conservatives care so much about the Liberals that they are warning us how damaging it would be to elect Bob Rae as leader.Bless their hearts.Rae must be the…
The other day I wrote a post about the dark lord’s frustration over the democratic expression of opposition to the Northern Gateway oilsands pipeline. It seems ‘dear leader’ felt that…
The much anticipated Liberal convention kicks off this Friday in Ottawa, with the internal races for party positions drawing a lot more attention than usual. If you’re losing sleep over…
I watched in mild horror ’Question Period’ yesterday. Horror, not because CTV is too cheap to broadcast the show in HD, but because of the nonsense delivered on behalf of…
I received an E-reader for Christmas and recently uploaded Ben Shapiro’s new book: Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV. I had blogged…
This may shock you as much as it did me: Austin, Texas may just be the best place in the USA for clean-tech companies. Time Magazine has a good article…
A few weeks ago I had a patient named Helen who died. I’m not talking about a dramatic code or trauma, with people running around shouting for IV access, but…
Mordor It’s really very simple. A front group for tarsands polluters is accusing opponents of being puppets of foreign interests. EthicalOil.org thinks only Canadians should be permitted to take part…
