Canada’s state broadcaster Sun Media has been going to bat for the Conservative Party this week against their political enemies. Conservative Party spokesman Brian Lilley has been obsessively attacking NDP…
In keeping with my goal of policy centric coverage of the Leadership contest, this post contains largely a list of various policies mentioned by the respective Candidates at the Toronto…
I have one. I am not giving it back. In fact I think it is pretty cool and I am going to frame it. Yeah I know Maude Barlow, who…
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released a report detailing the many ways in which expanded oil exploration and drilling in federally protected areas would not yield an overall economic…
The National Post tells all that an unnamed man working for “…Brake Mobile Wash, a contractor charged with washing Beer Store delivery trucks.” was washing the outside of said trucks…
With all the bad news coming out of Canadian politics – dysfunctional Parliament, an arrogant, indifferent, and hard-rightwing prime minister – great to have some good news. The people spoke…
Apple is infamous for making hardware that only they can easily support or provide accessories and repairs for. This irritates long-standing Apple customers who’ve bought into the latest round of…
….really stupid. Front page – Craig Leonard, our minister of energy, has announced the new, shale gas rules; and he says they’re strong. Well, yeah, I wasn’t expecting him to…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger There has been controversy over Cowichan Lake and River water levels, use and impacts for many decades and many of us including myself do not have a…
Julian Assange is running for Australian senator for the Wikileaks Party. Assange is still holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in the UK, but Australian law allows non-residents to run…
Facing enormous opposition to the proposed Keystone XL and Northern Gateway pipelines, Canada’s tar sands industry is taking to the tracks to get its sticky bitumen to China. Canadian and…
From 1878. When I saw this today, in Montreal, I was amazed. Can anyone say how Max communicated that the girl had been among the dead?
Please see today’s Vancouver Sun — or click here — for my latest letter to the editor. This one is about BC Premier Christy Clark’s efforts to raise government revenue…
But should I be? Everyone else is, and I’m starting to feel a little weird that I’m not.
By my admittedly inexpert calculations, five hours later and the Chelyabinsk meteor would have hit north of Edinburgh. Twelve hours later, it would have been uncomfortably close to Saskatoon. You…
The second-last Saskatchewan NDP leadership debate took place in Moose Jaw this past week, with the most thorough coverage coming from the Times-Herald (and Justin Crann). As usual I’ll hold…
Today, February 16, 2013 marks the one-year anniversary of the #TellVicEverything Twitter campaign, which went viral and saw thousands of Canadians creatively and successfully voicing their opposition to the government’s…
By Hannah McKinnon, National Program Manager at Environmental Defense. In last week’s State of the Union address, President Obama reiterated his vision for clean energy and urgent action on global…
An Open Response Letter to the New Afrikan Black Panther Party with regard to it’s Position Paper titled: Black Liberation in the 21st Century: A Revolutionary Reassessment of Black Nationalism…
