Last week, the hacktivist collective Anonymous dumped WikiLeaks. Anonymous accuses WikiLeaks’ beleagured founder Julian Assange of turning the whistle-blowing website into a one man “Julian Assange show”. Below is the…
The other night was the most hilarious thing I have seen on TV in a long while. Romney lied and smiled that horrible smile, and he face planted on the…
Sixteen years ago, Dalton McGuinty won the Ontario Liberal leadership race at 4:30 am, after 5 rounds of voting. Always one to defy expectations, McGuinty worked his way up from…
The following is a guest blog from Marc Lavoie and Mario Seccareccia at the University of Ottawa: In a speech delivered on October 4th to the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce…
Lund v. Boissoin, 2012 ABCA 300 holds, very properly, that in determining whether speech is hate speech, and subject to legal sanction, context is critical: B. Consideration of context In…
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says planned changes to the pension plan for members of Parliament won’t take effect until after the next election, noting it would not be fair to…
He will serve on a Vatican delegation that will travel next week to the war-ravaged country. Good luck to him; a tough gig to say the least! Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/pope-sending-cardinal-dolan-on-peace-mission-to-syria/#ixzz29fXowzwt
I don’t know how I could have been so foolish as to miss it. A reader pointed out something very important to me, something I had missed.(maybe I really should…
Seniors who lead active lives like playing cards and generally hanging out with friends feel healthier and are healthier than there less social peers. Friends make things fun and keep…
A green flag looks nice, but a white flag might have been more apt Via Daveberta, comes news that the Alberta Liberals will be rebranding themselves as Liberalberta. The change…
XL Foods targeted for takeover by Brazilian company CBC online Oct. 18, 2012 If anyone in this country needed to rationalize the road to vegetarianism for any reason at all,…
Very popular subject on Twitter as it went viral. Here is one example of such a tweet.
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Annie Lowrey reports on the evidence showing that the perpetually-increasing inequality pitched by the right as an economic plan actually serves to…
Here, following up on this blog post as to how we should expect a huge increase in Regina’s municipal election turnout both for the sake of good governance, and for…
One might have thought that the final days of municipal elections around the province would make for a relatively quiet stretch in the Saskatchewan NDP leadership campaign. But instead, it…
Look around and anyone can find a huge amount of information about Muskrat Falls and electricity in Newfoundland and Labrador. For all that, though, there is a great deal of…
I scanned through this article at iPolitics far enough to make sure that I wasn’t just objecting to something projected onto it by a copy editor whose headline didn’t reflect…
Further to my earlier post critiquing the recent Mintz study – which argued that cuts in corporate tax rates are not significantly denting corporate tax revenues – I looked up…
