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The new layout you see is just the first of many improvements we have in store for the site. In addition to the clean modern look, it will be readable…
June 2013
Isn’t it Sad
“Isn’t it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect…
Harper Conservatives’ refugee health care cuts remain a concern: Ontario doctors
By: Ontario Medical Association | Press Release: TORONTO, June 17, 2013 – One year after the implementation of a series of changes to federal coverage of refugee health care, Ontario’s…
‘Our kids deserve the right to their culture’: Anishinabek Nation
By: Anishinabek Nation | Press Release: TORONTO, June 17, 2013 – Anishinabek Nation leaders have told provincial government officials that their children in care deserve the right to their culture.…
A Lesson in Democracy from Brazil
Although I do not condone violence in any form, if you read the accompanying story you will see what happens when the citizens of a country feel strongly about something,…
6166…Beckham To The NFL
It could happen if David Beckham wants it. The recently retired football player has been offered a shot at playing gridiron. Make that was offered a shot at playing in…
Robert Sutherland, Canada’s first Black lawyer
Robert Sutherland (1830–1878) was the first known graduate of colour at a Canadian university, and the first Black man to study law in British North America. A graduate of Queen’s…
Harper sidesteps questions over whether it was appropriate for his taxpayer-funded office to be distributing documents to media about paid speeches Justin Trudeau made before he was elected to Parliament
Again, a failure to distinguish between the role of government and the dictates of the Party: Story here:
PM Harper Officially Off Diet
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The Scumbags in the Harper PMO Strike Again
Ever since I started blogging I have used the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch to illustrate Stephen Harper's PMO.For nothing else can better portray the mixture of religious fanaticism and political…
Enbridge Won’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer, Despite 96% Opposition
Despite over 9,500 public submissions to the Joint Review Panel for the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline – with a resounding 96% opposed – John Carruthers, the company president in…
Raising the cap — still not a good reason to approve Northern Gateway
The Con government has announced that Canadian energy companies who cause an environmental disaster will be liable for a much larger amount. Currently, it’s just $30 million for the east…
Social Determinants: Where did 55,000 Ontario households go?
What happened to 55,000 low-income rental households in Ontario? Between the late 1990s and the early 2000s they simply disappeared from the census. A new report from the Ontario Non-Profit…
Is new coal export infrastrucutre in the best interest of BC and Canada
Today’s CBC Edition Business Panel focused on the proposal by Fraser Surrey Docks to build a new coal terminal on the Fraser river to export US thermal coal (if you…
Review: The Inconvenient Indian
It’s hard to come up with a substantive review when you don’t have much to say that’s critical, even constructively critical, about the book in question. So this review will…
Thank you
While we continue pushing back against government imposed online spying, we want to report back and thank the community members who stepped up recently. Back in May we sent you…
An Alleged Con Speaks About A Con
Thanks to Alison at Creekside for this and, of course, her ever-growing Harper’s Parade of Perps. Recommend this Post
Justin Trudeau in Burlington This Thursday – No Speaking Fees Required!
Our fearless leader Justin Trudeau will be in my home riding of Burlington this Thursday, so if you’re in or near Halton Region, here’s your chance to ask Justin the…
One of Premier Brad Wall’s Gov’t MLA’s scrambles to repay ‘speaking engagement’ fees …
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has caused some problems for one of his caucus members with his attack on Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau for charging speaker fees while sitting as an…
Paris Rising, Montreal Falling, Neither Bodes Well
The two great French cities of the world, well, Montreal used to be worthy, are having some development conundrums. Paris has decided to add a dozen highrise buildings but away…