by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Jan. 28, 2013: Remember Occupy, Canada? A new Statistics Canada analysis of income trends among Canadian taxfilers from 1982 to 2010, released today,…
By Rachel Goodine The FSAs, or Foundation Skills Assessment tests, administered annually in British Columbia since 2000 to students in grades 4 and 7, are once again under way. They…
With Israel under a spotlight, the director of its Ministry of Health has issued an order that gynaecologists should not inject women with the contraceptive Depo-Provera without their knowledge or…
We here at Daisy just paused in a staff meeting to watch NDP leader Andrea Horwath throw down the proverbial gauntlet: call a public inquiry, or else. My view on…
A few nights ago, I suddenly woke at 3 a.m. with a sense of horror. I had forgotten to move my car off the street when I parked it. that’s…
I have the decision should anyone want a copy — it is lengthy.
Darren Entwistle, president and chief executive officer of Telus Corp. says the federal government should establish a definitive plan to relax the foreign investment rules for large telecom companies over…
In the wake of Kathleen Wynne’s victory in the race to become the new leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, the inevitable, perennial questions are being asked; the “are the…
Two and a half years after the costliest oil pipeline spill in U.S. history, the company responsible for the disaster is balking at digging up oil that still remains in…
Michael Den Tandt writes in this morning’s National Post that Stephen Harper’s Conservatives: view every file, including those traditionally related to social justice, through an economic prism – the thinking…
I’m sure Steve Berman is seeing a significant uptick in hits this morning as a result of publishing some of the details he’s gleaned from six months worth of emails…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, January 28, 2013: Michigan joins growing list of states that prohibit employers from asking for social media…
Assorted content to start your week. – Maude Barlow offers some background to the Common Causes protests happening across Canada this week: Over the last two years, we have witnessed…
Religion claims to tell us about how the universe works, but most religious belief comes from a time of superstition, ignorance and fear we can only catch a glimpse of…
In expectation of what we will be complaining about soon. Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: rain
A Twitter friend, Vicki Davidson, has a better memory than I do (at my advanced age, that isn’t difficult). She told me about something I once said, on Global TV,…
Forgery. It’s something that one normally associates with criminals; passing counterfeit bills, scammers, online pirates, people selling fake relics or fake ID. It’s something I would not normally associate with…
This just released today … MEDIA RELEASE For Immediate Release Premier maintains Anti-Choice Stance 25 years after National Decriminalization Charlottetown – January 27th, 2013 – Since his 2011 statement that…
…here, by Jennifer Pagliaro, with some important new details. This child’s death has shocked the city – and, more immediately, left me trying in vain to answer questions from my…
Rogers has struck a backroom deal with Shaw1 to take over systems crucial to delivering our mobile Internet and phone services – systems that were promised2 to create new independent…
