Canada Live, April 18: the great Taube-Kinsella debate. I naturally win.
Michael Taube looks on in horror as I make yet another excellent point about Alberta’s Sarah Palin, Danielle Smith.
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The Pope is Still Catholic
In all likelihood, Toronto mayor Rob Ford will not attend this year’s Pride parade. That’s not news. What should be news is the fact that, once again, he refuses to…
R.I.P. Dick Clark
Before the Internet and MTV and MuchMusic, he was pretty much the only game in town. When I heard, in Spring 1980, that Dick Clark had invited PIL onto his…
Canada Telecom Rule Changes Threaten National Security by Hugo Miller and Andrew Mayeda
Public Safety Canada warns that Canada’s plan to allow foreign companies such as VimpelCom Ltd. (VIP) to increase their stakes in the country’s telecommunications providers poses a “considerable risk” to…
A Bank for the Taxpayer’s Buck?
Hi all, I interrupt your regular blog viewing to bring you one of my infrequent posts, this time by a guest contributor — Alan Milner — who for reasons of…
This Saturday: Rockin’ for a Good Cause
Somerset West Community Health Centre is holding a great event this Saturday night (April 21) to raise money for children’s summer programming in our area. The Rock N Blues Review…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – In an excerpt from the Occupy Handbook, Paul Krugman and Robin Wells discuss how a right-wing obsession with exacerbating inequality led to the…
Mining and Climate Change, Part 4: The NDP and the Wrong Carbon Pricing Policy
Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, the New Democratic Party, should they form Canada’s next government (and let’s be frank here: there’s a very good chance that they will do just that),…
I never thought I’d vote (Alberta) P.C.
Brought to my attention by Brian Lilley (of all people), on-air. This is brilliant Gen X political marketing. Share it!
Dick Clark, ‘Bandstand’ Host, Dead At 82.
Sad but hardly unexpected. He was a big part of the lives of people like me — who remember him on flickering black and white screens powered through vacuum tubes……
Why I don’t Believe in a Merger. . . . .
I don’t think I am naive. Nor am I ignorant of contemporary or historical political issues; I have made a careful study of political philosophy and tried to stay abreast…
Raymond Taavel — when will enough be enough?
Raymond Taavel, of Halifax NS may not have had the profile that Harvey Milk of San Francisco CA did more than three decades ago; but the fact Taavel was murdered…
Jim Doak can’t see the ground from his lofty tower on Bay Street
The way Toronto financial analyst Jim Doak sees it, Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath and groups such as the Campaign to build ‘One Big Campaign’ (CBOBC) are, well, pretty much…
We get letters: more from the Wildrose Bozone Layer
“I am a pastor. And in beliefs homosexual are headed for the lake of fire. Now with that being said we have Muslims in public office right now who believe…
BC Confidential Report on Elimination of Forest Conservation Laws Available as PDF
Residents of British Columbia may have seen in the news today that the provincial government inadvertently placed a confidential draft report on the future of the forest industry on a…
Liberal Party of Canada needs to re-think its approach to Quebec
Our currentPrime Minister has an amazing take on the history of the repatriation of theConstitution, and is reluctant to celebrate our magnificent Charter of Rightsand Freedoms because he think’s it…
Liberal Leader Bob Rae on Holocaust Remembrance Day
VAL-D'OR, QC— Liberal Leader Bob Rae made the following statement today on Holocaust Remembrance Day: "Yom HasHoah is a day of deep reflection for Canada's Jewish communities, and Jewish communities around…
The Monroe Doctrine is dead
A new age has dawned in the Americas. The Monroe Doctrine, a policy established by the United States ostensibly to keep European imperialists out of the Western Hemisphere but which…
Roy Romanow gives it to Harper on Charter of Rights and Freedoms
“Prime Minister Stephen Harper is on “the wrong side of history” by failing to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms to avoid stirring up lingering…