Winning at casinos is not impossible.
There was an outraged response from a reader to our recent suggestion that problem gamblers needed to learn how to gamble. This person swears he is never going to go…
August 2013
No Wonder Mark Steyn
…is considering a run for the U.S. Senate. He may need an extra income source if Mike Mann’s defamation case against the National Review goes the way it appears to…
U.S., Britain and Israel have used chemical weapons in the last 10 years
When the U.S, Britain and Israel uses these chemical weapons then it is okay. There is no repercussions. However, if any other country uses it then it is a crime…
Happy Labour Day weekend to all working class women and men. In…
Happy Labour Day weekend to all working class women and men. In this corrupt age of ultra-capitalism, globalization, neo-feudalism and unrestrained class war, we need the labour movement more than…
Saturday Photo: Street Furniture on a Late Summer Morning
The Montreal borough of the Plateau-Mile End has been rather agressive in trying to make its streets pedestrian and bicycle friendly. Among the initiatives has been the addition of rather…
Senator Obama in 2007
“The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the…
Thank You, David Cameron, For Being a Klutz: The Syrian Files
It’s always interesting to watch while political maneuvering backfires. That was the case this week when Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron tried to rush things and get Parliament to…
Reflections about union blogging on Labour Day weekend
Many of you have told us how much you like our BLOG. Some of you must be telling others because our readership is growing by about 50 per cent per…
Open wide
People are too bony to eat; we are lacking the comfort-food blubber the bears need to endure the cold.
"Unwritten Law" did exist! Astonishing
I always assumed the “unwritten law”, that is, a husband could kill his wife’s lover if caught in adultery, was just an urban myth. The suggestion that provocation, a legitimate…
This Is The Best They’ve Got?
Many Ontario residents of a certain age will be aware of the fact that the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party ruled the province for forty-two years, from 1943 to 1985, a…
Duncan Campbell Scott: Good Poet, Bad Person?
The other day Bernie Farber had an op-ed in the Ottawa Citizen where he wrote: was considered one of Canada’s preeminent poets, a writer whose verses sang of Canada’s natural…
No Simple Answers
The United States and France appear ready to attack Syria. If that happens, Iran says it is ready to attack Israel. And Israel has atomic weapons. Bob Rae wrote this…
The Syrian Apocalypse and the Con Klowns
I see it's going to be an apocalyptic weekend. The unofficial end of the northern summer that is never long enough. The sound of fighter jets flying low over my…
Guitarist wanted
To fill a rather sudden vacancy. Apply to wkinsella at hotmail.com!
Paul Fromm: Summer Instructor at Kamp Klan
Clockwise: Paul Fromm, Billy Roper,Rachel Pendergraft, Thomas Robb Some time ago we reported that Paulie, who lost his job as a teacher in 1997 and later had his certification stripped…
Ranked ballot ends need for party mergers
After the 2011 election results came in, many pundits were saying the Liberals and NDP would have to merge to stop the Conservatives from becoming Canada’s natural governing party. Right-leaning…
The Roots of STEM
There’s an increasing amount of chatter amongst the chattering classes about how universities are spitting out too many Arts graduates and not enough STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) graduates. The…
The Roots of STEM
There's an increasing amount of chatter amongst the chattering classes about how universities are spitting out too many Arts graduates and not enough STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) graduates. The…