It seems to be becoming more accepted, that public politicians who are supposed to be representing their constituents and reporting to them can freely attend secretive meetings with foreign dignitaries…
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Here’s the thing about being a parent to a son or daughter who is totally dependent – as you get older, you feel more vulnerable, not less. You begin to…
The city of Thunder Bay and surrounding townships have declared a state of emergency this week because of flood conditions throughout the region after more than 100 millimetres of rain…
Looks like those “crazy environmentalists” were right all along: the cost of oil has gotten so high that companies are looking for alternatives. When it comes to companies that rely…
Toronto is the least bikeable of Canada’s large cities, and we’ve got the numbers to prove it. Released earlier
Toronto is the least bikeable of Canada's large cities, and we've got the numbers to prove it. Released earlier this month, Bikescore is an online calculator that ranks the overall…
Toronto is the least bikeable of Canada’s large cities, and we’ve got the numbers to prove it. Released earlier
Washington Post has a nice piece this a.m. “Mack” Wolford, a Pentecostal pastor from West Virginia who tried to preserve the religious tradition of serpent-handling, died Sunday from a rattlesnake…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Thomas Walkom criticizes the Cons’ war on labour at the federal level – though John Ivison notes that the Cons’ habit of interfering…
As often as they say it, the facts don’t bear out the claim some politician like to make about the provincial public debt. The Premier did it again in the…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, May 30, 2012: Not even jail stopped ‘unrepentant’ disbarred lawyer from practising BC Judge finds Facebook pictures…
As both a Catholic and an Ontario Liberal, I disagree with just about everything Adam has to say, here. But I like the fact that he says with passion and,…
Quote unquote: “Questions are swirling as to why ORNGE officials sought to place a helicopter base at the Oshawa airport and if Finance Minister Jim Flaherty made an attempt to…
Our intrepid academic friend Christopher Parsons isn’t one to sit idly by while the future of the online spying bill remains unclear. After the Globe and Mail reported that this…
Brad Trost, he is the Tory MP for somewhere far away. I think it is Saskatoon-Humboldt. He is quoted in today’s Ottawa Citizen as saying, when commenting about the severed…
Some of the people referenced in this post are affiliated with Autism Speaks. TPGA does not consider Autism Speaks an organization that benefits autistic people. -SR I am not sure…
When historians sit down to write about how radical the Harper government was, they will surely focus on how it treated labour. Tom Walkom writes that legislating an end to…
That what it says right here in my morning Montreal Gazette: To show its support for foes of university tuition hikes, Anonymous says it will wreak havoc with the Formula…
The US Government’s Digital Strategy: The New Benchmark and Some Lessons
Last week the White House launched its new roadmap for digital government. This included the publication of Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People…