I know everyone stopped caring about the Speech from the Throne on Thursday, including Prime Minister Harper, who fled to Europe right after it was read Wednesday night to bring…
Stephen Harper skipped out on Parliament the day after the throne speech. He’d spent the last one hundred and eighteen days avoiding the legislature — and he needed an excuse…
The Supreme Court of Canada this week that doctors in Ontario could not unilaterally decide to withdraw ordinary life support from a patient they considered effectively dead. It is important…
With the Throne Speech a one-day wonder, the Hair had nothing left to do but head for Brussels. The home of the European Union, Brussels today is more than a…
Premier David Alward of New Brunswick does not get it. It is not only natives who are opposed to fracking in New Brunswick, but the general public as well. Also…
First, I want to address members of the audience from the UK, Australia, and places like that. It’s Math not Maths. Sorry 😛 but it is. Mathematics is not a…
pablo lopez luz photographs the concrete waves (or carpet, as he puts it) of Mexico City The unbelievably sprawling concrete carpet of Mexico City seen in these photos make me…
The Piraha are a small tribe living along the Amazon with an extremely peculiar…simple, primitive…language: Among Pirahã’s many peculiarities is an almost complete lack of numeracy, an extremely rare linguistic…
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The “man the life boats and head for the stars” answer to our present human dilemmas is simply delusional. We can and should explore space, but if we don’t get…
In Canada October is our official Autism Awareness month. That is not as widely known as it might be for a number of reasons including the fact that we live…
St. Albert place on Canada Day. The fireworks, as a matter of fact, are exploding right over the East Boardroom, where an advance poll will be held from 9 a.m.…
A Twitter pic of the #Elsipogtog protest: And here are photos by Media Coop reporter Miles Howe: Howe, who was arrested at the protest, writes an astounding account of what…
It's the human rights nightmare that just goes on and on. The case of Omar Khadr, and the travesty of justice that should shame us all.And today the latest chapter…
This is a follow-up to my earlier post on this year’s Subversive Festival in Zagreb. Srećko Horvat hosts Alexis Tsipras leader of Greece’s radical left party, SYRIZA, and the philosopher…
St. Albert place on Canada Day. The fireworks, as a matter of fact, are exploding right over the East Boardroom, where an advance poll will be held tomorrow. (St. Albert…
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A Vancouver protest in sympathy with the Elsipogtog First Nation (Damien Gillis) Yesterday, Canadian Ministers were attending the World Energy Congress, delivering keynote speeches. BC Minister of Natural gas non-disclosure,…
Following up on this, stuff from about ten years ago. Shit our hero has been willing to sue people for defamation! (Bolding is mine) After Harper became Canadian Alliance leader…
This is Tab Benoit performing at the 2007 Blues Music Awards. He loves him some gumbo. This is taken from a show that featured a number of harp players paying…
