What was Pauline Marois thinking? Former PQ and BQ leaders oppose this Charter of (Racism and Bigotry) Values; including Jacques Parizeau, Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry. “Despite his history, Parizeau…
Stephen Maher has spent a great deal of his journalistic energy investigating the robocalls swindle. But this week — after a second person was taken to the hospital from Patrick…
Uh oh. I knew Stephen Harper's all out offensive to try to force Obama to approve the Keystone pipeline was going to end badly eh?First he made a fool of…
Hummingbirds are amazing – baby ones even more so!
“A Corporate Trojan Horse”: Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of U.S. Laws | Democracy Now!. Crucial information on the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership — Looks like a…
He's been trying to soften his image by posing as a friend of poor women and children. He told a U.N. group on maternal health that "action trumps rhetoric.". His…
Delerium – Wisdom
Yes it sounds far fetched but American billionaire, Tom Steyer, is questioning whether Steve Harper played a role in the shutdown of the U.S. government. “Have your government, your government’s…
(..if they could get away with it): International Development Minister Christian Paradis says the government will not fund overseas projects that allow war rape victims and child brides to obtain…
Let's assume the Act is as terrible as the GOP suggests. That it will fail miserably. So? Give the Democrats the rope to hang themselves with. No one can say…
Within two days, the PEI Progressive Conservatives, who governed their tiny province with a super majority just six years ago, lost two-fifths of their party caucus. First, on October 3rd,…
Happy Friday, readers. After a 2 month hiatus, Band of the Month is back! Today’s band is Craig Brown. A multi-instrumentalist and producer with a great gift of transforming life’s…
To begin, here are George Thorogood & the Destroyers with Bottom of the Sea. This is from a concert held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of CBC Radio 2’s Saturday…
This is an extract from Cicero’s legal defense of Sestius, delivered in 56 BCE. Cicero is often considered to be the founding father of ‘republicanism’ but has influenced the likes…
Across North America, people need a strong voice from the Left more than they have at any time in the last half century. America’s society is crumbling and Canada is…
Proposed LNG plant in Kitimat – artist’s rendering VICTORIA – The B.C. government will spend $650,000 to study potential air pollution impacts of proposed industrial developments — including liquefied natural…
It’s tough to lose a solider. Especially one like Dimitri. A fine sniper, with a good kill record. I had trained him for so long, raised him from a lowly…
We’ve now entered the fourth day of the government shutdown, and the economic impacts are already being felt by states all over America. As it turns out, the environmental services…
Four professors involved in researching income inequality in Canada took a close look at the National Household Survey and what it appeared to tell us, and then put it into…
