In 2007 we attended SOS Medicare II, a high-profile national conference in Regina looking at the unfinished Medicare agenda. Tommy Douglas’ original vision for Medicare extended far beyond what we…
Editor’s note: Art Threat has launched a cultural archaeological project that involves digging up previously published but now inaccessible film reviews and cultural musings from Montreal-based writer and teacher Matthew…
Britain’s Tory government is hoping desperately to avoid a “triple dip” recession on its watch. The Cameron government eked out a 0.1% growth for the three months ending March 1st,…
I had a brief chat with Georges Corriveau this morning that got me to thinking about the future of work. Specifically, I was thinking to myself, if I were just…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Brendan Haley explains why the Cons’ let-them-build-pipelines economic approach is doomed to fail from the standpoint of prosperity as well as that of…
Eli Pariser on Upworthy writes that “The United States has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world — higher than China, Iran, and Russia(!). That wasn’t always…
The Peterborough Planetarium has been started by just two people with the primary goal to bring an excitement of space and our global environment to kids in Ontario. Being a…
R v Telus 2013 SCC 16 was just released. It holds text messages cannot be seized by police without a wiretap authorization. The Court holds that text messaging is, in…
Matthew Hays is a prolific cultural critic who, aside from publishing many academic journal articles and books, wrote for years in Montreal on everything in cinema, from porn to puppets…
In a time when most of the young people I know are marrying for immigration, insurance or other very practical reasons, it is a pleasure to read a story of…
Passover is here, which means eating matzah, also chocolate and more eggs than usual. This year during the seder one line struck me from our (radically abridged) reading of the…
From Facebook. True dat. WFDS
To get the attention of our beloved Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Bob Rae, the leader of the Liberals in Ottawa, was responding to a mini revolt by muzzled Tory backbenchers…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, March 27, 2013: Rob Ford: ‘Intoxicated’ Toronto mayor asked to leave military ball Property Managers Not Welcome…
Inspired by these headlines: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/03/26/pol-backbench-mps-rebel-against-pmo-control.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/03/26/toronto-roll-up-the-rim.html
It’ll show up here, I think. I started by pointing out that many other politicians who battled with the bottle – George W. Bush, Brian Mulroney and (to a lesser…
What can we do to help young men respect women, recognize consent, and have healthy sexual relationships? Teach them kindness to others—and the courage to go against the crowd. By:…
Should the atmosphere be considered part of the public trust, a resource essential for our collective survival? An Iowa judge, for one, thinks that there is good reason and precedent.…
White Pine Pictures has sold CBC police procedural Cracked to the U.S. and France, in one of several recent overseas deals that highlight the improved fortunes of Canadian television production.
I’m about to go on the Oakley show – the show that created Rob Ford, in effect – to talk about his ongoing problems. Tune in if you can!
