In this, the International Year of Co-operatives, we cannot remind ourselves too often of the tried and true alternative to conventional capitalism. Co-operatives have for generations offered a more humane…
Ethical Oil has written a letter to the Canada Revenue Agency to review the David Suzuki Foundation’s charitable status because, they allege, the Suzuki Foundation is a partisan political organization.…
Gagging the armed forces, gagging the public service and, now, sending minders to shadow government scientists at an international forum, this is too much. We are ruled by a regime.…
3%: The amount by which Premier Kathy Dunderdale said she and her colleagues would be cutting spending in the current budget. As the Telegram editorial pointed out on Wednesday: Instead…
We all lead busy lives (yes, even retired folk like me). Our desire for information and knowledge to allow us to intelligently interpret the world around us is limited by…
You wouldn’t think the victory of a Progressive Conservative government in Alberta, of all places, would be able to send the media into such a tizzy. A few months from…
Vamos v. Vamos, 2012 ONCA 262 holds, as is well established, that parents have to be at least on good speaking terms for joint custody to be awarded: To have custody of…
We sit at the top of our planetary food chain but, when you’re at the top it’s easy, even natural, to imagine yourself far bigger and greater than you truly…
This isn’t one I took, but I just have to share it with you. This is in my neighbourhood. In fact I may just walk past it this afternoon to…
I have long been attracted to the small house movement…it seems so perfectly revisionist, as in re-envisioning the necessary and the portable..to devolve from what we are programmed to think…
Here’s another win for science! A controversial study conducted in 2001 that claimed a small minority of gay people were able to change their sexual orientation from gay to straight…
Deep Throat is on the job, bringing you the latest news from around the globe, just for you political junkies out there .. today he reports from London, where the…
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The other day I was searching through the videos at Kahn Academy and I came across a series on the French Revolution. Intrigued, I decided to watch them. As the…
This is groovy, a paint is being used on the walls of Manila that cleans the air. In the Philippine capital Manila, which is one of the most polluted cities…
The Syrian conflict continues to boil – or boil over – when Syrian troops fired across the Turkish border on April 9, apparently killing either fleeing refugees or armed combatants.…
It seems every few months I have an aggravating experience with Rogers. A few months ago, I got a letter saying this was my final bill and my cable/Internet service…
In the last provincial election, neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives had anything that could be called a platform. The closest was an Alward statement that he would listen. Oh,…
It’s the one form of public communication they haven’t figured out how to control yet. Twitter in particular puts a bug up the collective butts of the Harper Gang because…
