Dr. Jack Kitts, CEO of the Ottawa Hospital, says he plans to transfer about 5,000 endoscopies to community hospitals and clinics as part of an overall plan to find $31…
By David Suzuki The Arctic may seem like a distant place, just as the most extreme consequences of our wasteful use of fossil fuels may appear to be in some…
Canada’s third largest freshwater lake in serious trouble by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 4, 2013: A report by a Germany-based international environmental foundation is reminding Canadians of…
The Internet allows individuals to communicate and share openly. Individuals like Aaron Swartz have been working to use the Internet in their efforts to open up access to knowledge. What…
Last week over 100 students from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, concerned about how government funding cuts will impact the future of the university, disrupted a Board…
Most useless interactive graph ever, Globe and Mail. The amount of control that the party leadership of all parties exhibit over their Members of Parliament is ludicrous. One of the…
by Conference Board of Canada | Jan. 31, 2013: OTTAWA – Health care is a large and essentially recession-proof part of Canada’s economy, creating more than 10 per cent of…
This may be a good thing, a bad thing or merely a press thing. It would be good if the government actually gave some substance to this announcement: Story
Canada (Competition Bureau) v. Yellow Pages Marketing B.V., 2013 ONCA 71 is a useful source for the principle that except in extraordinary cases the Court should not inquire as to…
The deformed skeleton recently discovered in a Leicester car park is indeed the earthly remains of King Richard III. Not just the identity of the man in the car park…
This articulate teenager, presenting recently at the hearings of the Northern Gateway Review Panel, asks all of us a question we need to ponder in our hearts: * What will…
In some circles the preferred term is “captured” but Al Gore chooses to argue that American democracy has been hacked by corporatism. Regardless of terminology, he’s right. And it’s a…
Preach: Transcript here (h/t). Filed under: Feminism, feminisms, health care, pro-choice, reproductive freedom Tagged: abortion, contraception, Feminism, Jessica Valenti, Planned Parenthood, reproductive justice
by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 4, 2013: Legendary is Prime Minister Stephen Harper‘s contempt for women and the issues important to them. This photo of the prime…
So, I finished watching the roughly three-and-a-half hour video on Liberal.ca of the most recent “debate” for the Liberal leadership in Winnipeg. While the “debate” was in fact a series…
Revolutionary thought of the day: Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience…
My God, this is just incredible. If someone had figured out how to fashion this into a political ad, they’d be President of the United States right about now. Sent…
.. and how Elizabeth and the Phillip didn’t have to pay a cent of the cost of their wedding. No. the whole thirty-eight million dollars was picked up by the…
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