The Alberta tar sands aren’t only environmentally friendly, they’re good for the ozone layer, they will stop illiteracy and alleviate erectile dysfunction; and that’s just the tip of the melting…
Shoot your self in the foot yet again. The Conservative candidate in Cartwright – L’anse au Claire is committed to proving his party runs the government to suit its own…
Meawhile here’s the best Stephen Harper could do last time he visited Europe.
Well I see Stephen Harper is getting ready to jump into his shiny new Con getaway plane, and escape to Europe.No doubt hoping that that he can leave Mike Duffy…
A couple of weeks ago, I started a new series on popular apathy and the decline in popular interest in Canadian democracy by noting that, since 1867, the relative voting…
I have one question about the new Ottawa RedBlacks: what are the team colours going to be?Actually, I have two questions — what the heck is a RedBlack anyway?I prefer…
I was honored to be asked to chair the joint AGMs for Nanaimo Cowichan and Nanaimo Alberni.
I was honored to be asked to chair the joint AGMs for Nanaimo Cowichan and Nanaimo Alberni.
It’s like the house party you’re at and you’re stuck in the kitchen listening to the Worst Life Story Ever, and all you want to do is leave but you…
That is what 5/6 Senators in Newfoundland told James McLeod of The Telegram. The Telegram is the official fish wrap of St. John’s and has been also used in the…
Got this graphic off of Facebook: Canadians Rallying To Unseat Harper. Love him or hate him this guy took over a relatively safe Liberal seat, knocking out the Honourable David…
Ms Soapbox has been in a quandary all week. She was troubled by what she’d observed at the meeting of the College of Physicians and Surgeons governing council. Finally the…
It has long been a practice of American far-right spokespeople and organizations that when sensationalistic rhetoric starts to fail, rather than try to polish it up and make it look…
The next time someone asks me why I’m an anti-capitalist, I’m just going to tell them to watch GREEN: DEATH OF THE FORESTS by Patrick Rouxel. A stunning visual essay…
I remember the first time I did the Rideau Lakes Cycle tour in 2001. When I got home my hands were so stiff from holding the handle bars it took…
I found a new way to appreciate my home town through the eyes of astronomers this weekend. Also, I used the astronomers’ telescopes, which is a great way to look…
Try as our beloved Prime Minister Stephen Harper does to muzzle the press he is not so successful. White is great; yellow number two; gold third; red sucks and; black…
While Edward Snoden will undoubtedly be portrayed in the days and weeks to come as a traitor to his country, his courageous revelation of the domestic spying that the NSA…
This and that to end your weekend. – Dave Coles introduces readers to the Cons’ latest attack on labour – with a backbencher’s private member’s bill again serving as an…
When it comes to working to change the world, I think there is absolutely nothing inconsistent about combining the feeling that you really have no idea how to go about…
