On Bob Rae
Bob Rae’s incredible life of public service is one that all Parliamentarians, regardless of their political stripe, should try to emulate. Bob’s dedication to the public interest has made Canada…
Bob Rae’s incredible life of public service is one that all Parliamentarians, regardless of their political stripe, should try to emulate. Bob’s dedication to the public interest has made Canada…
This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, but Bob Rae is resigning as an MP. I wrote my praises of Rae’s career and time as interim leader back in April…
Hardly surprising to those who work with aboriginal communities. The question is not what is wrong but how to fix it and whether there is the political will so to…
Bad character evidence is not permissible to prove an accused is a bad person and accordingly guilty. Great care must be used when evidence that could be of bad character…
Midland Press closed this morning with a loss of five jobs, though it doesn’t look as though they have bothered to put up notice of the fact on their website:…
First off, thank you Kerry Diotte, Karen Leibovici and Don Iveson. Thank you all for giving Edmontonians the best mayoralty race in years, likely better than 2004 when Stephen Mandel…
@davidakin Unlike Mr. Mulcair, I did not intimidate the officer. Unlike Mr. Mulcair, I received a ticket. I immediately paid the ticket. Ctd— Eve Adams (@MPEveAdams) June 18, 2013 @davidakin…
Premier Brad Wall has really stepped into a big mess with his criticism of Federal Liberal Leader, Justin Trudeau. All leaders of Saskatchewan political parties have now made that perfectly…
I’m currently messing around in our deep, deep past, trying to get a fix on the roads that humans have traveled for a new non-fiction book to be called Road…
My apologies for putting this out so late, I just hadn’t gotten around to fixing up the required data I needed. I’ll endeavour to get this kind of stuff out…
Mongolia is entering the sustainable energy market and the country aims to export renewable energy to its neighbours. It’s great to see countries that are not as well-off as others…
….I iwonder if the editor who wrote that page one headline understands the whole meaning of it. “Moncton planning for climate change effects”. (Actually, it’s only planning for some effects,…
In this post, I described doing reference as “a bit scary,” and Impudent Strumpet asked why. I started to write an answer, ran out of time, then found myself on…
By: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Press Release: OTTAWA – Indigenous children in Canada are over two and a half times more likely to live in poverty than non-Indigenous…
That little person? That’s my daughter. She is amazing. Tonight, somewhat older, she graduates from high school – and, I suspect, she’ll be graduating on the honour roll. It’s been…
Hopefully, Prime Minister Stephen Harper had a better golf score than German Chancellor Angela Merkel. It really does not make sense for the world leaders to meet at a golf…
The link is to Marc Lemire’s site (one-time leader of the white supremacist Heritage Front), so you may not want to click though, but what he’s saying sounds right: the…
Premier Kathy Dunderdale took off for China on Tuesday as part of a new effort to get Chinese state-owned companies to invest in the province’s mining and offshore oil and…
It bothers me that American media doesn’t preface interviews with Dick Cheney by pointing out he’s evaded charges for war crimes (re: Iraq War). It does please me that Snowden…