I haven’t blogged much about the enormous, sustained and absolutely brilliant student strikes and demonstrations in Quebec. I’ve just been watching them from afar with admiration and deep respect. Now…
One of the more curious comments from provincial Conservative supporters lately has been the claim that they support the current Connie administration provincially because they – the supporters – are…
A little blast from the past for your post long weekend viewing pleasure…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, May 22, 2012: Conrad Black on freedom….and on the record Gloria Allred sued over Travolta accusers Microsoft…
After THIRTY-TWO YEARS – the Hot Nasties’ EP has been re-issued by Ugly Pop records! We recorded it in a garage in Calgary in 1980, overseen by a couple of…
Five years have passed since Stockwell Day, then Minister of Public Safety, announced that the Harper Government would not intervene to help save the life of Ronald Allen Smith. Smith…
As a reader of various progressive bloggers, I know that the thirst for justice and accountability burns strongly in Canada. The only problem, of course, is that this passion seems…
Who said these words and when? We have three broad objectives: to develop a more community-based health care system to ensure that patients receive quality medical care as close to…
Yesterday, my son sent me a copy of this TED lecture. It features Nick Hanauer, an American venture capitalist, and is less than six minutes long. Hanauer did not turn…
Sami Yusuf ‘s I am your hope, a new song for Egypt. * SamiYusufOfficial.com
So if you’ve been following politics (oh, I hope everyone had a good Victoria Day weekend, by the way), you know there’s been a bit of a brouhaha over NDP…
This news is a new low in the Harper government’s ongoing debasement of Parliament’s role in Canadian democracy: In the months leading up to the introduction Bill C-30, Canada’s telecom…
Though not as well-known as other Leagues composed of remarkable individuals, the League of Peculiar Gentlemen (LOPG) is none-the-less, an astonishing story of sacrifice, heroism, and strapping things over your…
But you’ve got to admire his willingness to make a pile of predictions, willy-nilly, with nary a qualifier in sight. This is a columnist operating without a safety net, folks,…
I knew since the beginning that the NDP attempts to keep it’s support in Quebec will pose them problems in the west. Yes the oil sands comments aren’t going to…
Abacus Data finds 37% support for the Tories nationally, unchanged since January. With newly installed leader Thomas Mulcair at the helm, the New Democratic Party has rocketed to 35% backing.…
Lately I’ve been falling behind. In April I went from a four-day-a-week job and two contracts on the side to a five-day-a-week job and four contracts. It’s temporary – the…
The Premier’s communications – Glenda Power – sent a couple of twitter messages to CBC’s Curtis Rumboldt on Friday. She was apparently correcting him on the impact closing Corner Brook…
"It's done because it's always been done but it is nonsense. It is not the way to treat them. It's horribly expensive. It's tokenistic, fetishistic – and a matrix for…
