What would the Americans give Canada for Alberta? Let’s say everything east of the Rockies to the Saskatchewan border and everything from the north end of the Athabasca tar fields…
It’s going to be a schmozzle. A circus. A travesty. In other words, the usual.
This is one of the ads made by the Toronto agency BBDO in 2007 on behalf of the UN Refugee Agency, with the goal of raising Canadian support for refugees.Unfortunately,…
I’m perplexed at the provincial government’s apparent imminent approval of a new fish farm in Clayoquot Sound. Has no one in that catastrophic government in Victoria read the recent and…
Stephen Harper likes to sing. This is his new hit. Every Canadian household must have it in their collection.
Every caregiver has a worst fear – a nightmare scenario that unfolds like an unwanted, sinister guest in the imagination. It might be triggered by the sound of an unusual…
Developers, and the city itself, would like to see affordable housing, rather than affordable golf, on the publicly owned land by Emma Teitel Maclean’s Magazine , Tuesday, July 10, 2012…
What is the TPP hiding? It’s long been referred to as a “trade agreement” between the countries that are negotiating, but in reality it addresses more than twenty chapters of…
It has to be rough being a practicing Muslim at the Olympics this time out. It is Ramadan which means that they gotta fast from sun up to sundown. Like,…
Breaking the law, breaking the law she is. It was Jonathan Jenkins of the Toronto Sun who broke the story of the NDP leader and her peeps are driving the…
Share this: I love the Olympics, but not for the reasons you might think. It can be truly inspiring to watch the best athletes in the world – and the…
Remember four years ago and Barack Obama’s goodwill tour of Europe — well before the Democratic convention — and how it brought out people in the tens of thousands; including…
Plenty of others will be chiming in today on the future of employment and labour law in Saskatchewan; here’s my personal contribution. Many other voices have expressed concerns about the…
“Before my father died, he said the worst thing about growing old was that other men stop seeing you as dangerous….Dangerousness was sacred.” Last night I watched Act of Valor.…
Now that I’ve put aside the short story collection Desire Lines: A Geography of Love that I’ve been working for the last several months, I’m back to working on the…
Hundreds of women join RCMP harassment lawsuit While reading through the comments posted under this article re the pending RCMP harassment lawsuits, I ran across one comment that was so…
… of Katimavik, by my old friend and fellow PSHS alumnus, Michael Johansen. (6) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Revolutionary thought of the day: Remember when, in the wake of the 9/11 attack, the Patriot Act was controversial, held up as the symbolic face of Bush/Cheney radicalism and widely…
You read that correctly, a $259 million (USD) boom in New York City’s economy is thanks to respecting human rights! Changing the law to reflect reality and letting homosexuals marry…
The Scourge of Online Anonymity
I have spent the better part of my life, it seems, writing letters to the editor and occasionally newspaper articles. Never once, during all those years did I ever think…