I first realised that my old friend, the Liberal Party of Canada was on the path to recovery when they introduced the Supporter category early in 2012. Canadians were invited…
Inspired by news stories of the last week or so: What do the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), the Vatican, the Canadian senate, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and…
Maybe they should have stuck with Bobby Jindal. Up and coming Republican Marco Rubio of Florida was picked to give the GOP rebuttal to president Obama’s State of the Union…
Dan Veniez has a column up this morning worth noting: Only three can legitimately claim to have earned the right to stay for the next rounds: Trudeau, Garneau, and Murray.…
So, you may not have heard that the Webgeek’s bro (known here as Chefgeek) will be running the kitchen at the revamped Elmdale Oyster House and Tavern. We’re pretty excited…
Forward On Climate Rally, Washington D.C., Feb 17: PHOTOSTREAM The Canadian Progressive recommends: HISTORY: #ForwardOnClimate Rally in Washington, D.C., Feb. 17
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Joseph Stiglitz discusses how the combination of increasingly concentrated wealth and deteriorating has eliminated any pretense of equal opportunity within the U.S.:…
Brad Wall’s contrived outrage over foreign interference in domestic policy might be a bit less laughable if he didn’t make so much of a show of trying to dictate the…
Together, Canadian and American governments spend well over 500 billion dollars on education. That’s a lot of money. What a pity to waste it all on children! That realization several…
There is a new arms race emerging between people who want to communicate freely and securely and governments that want to monitor and limit this communication. In democratic countries, this…
I admit that I stopped being a regular viewer of the CBC years ago; I think the catalyst for my disaffection was its transparent policy of appeasement (under the pretext…
As the frustration level builds with the ongoing lack of accountability and response to concerns about various watchdog departments and officers the number of articles condemning this ‘governments’ approach to…
Much to my surprise, when Martha Hall Findlay launched her leadership bid she was immediately labelled a "front runner", despite a decided lack of real world evidence to support the…
Much to my surprise, when Martha Hall Findlay launched her leadership bid she was immediately labelled a “front runner”, despite a decided lack of real world evidence to support the…
Much to my surprise, when Martha Hall Findlay launched her leadership bid she was immediately labelled a "front runner", despite a decided lack of real world evidence to support the…
Speaking at a Republican dinner in Wyoming recently, Dick Cheney opined that President Obama’s national security personnel choices were “dismal.” He was particularly offended by Obama’s choice of Chuck Hegal…
Much to my surprise, when Martha Hall Findlay launched her leadership bid she was immediately labelled a “front runner”, despite a decided lack of real world evidence to support the…
A lot of debate in the US on Obama’s excellent proposal to hike the minimum wage. John Schmitt of CEPR has put out an excellent paper summarizing all of the…
We act not because it’s easy, but because it’s right. Thousands of people are gathering in Washington DC today to send a message to President Obama that clean air, clean…
