It’s because Callandra has enough blood circulation to stand up on his hind legs but not enough that any of it reaches his brain. Callandra, the prime minister’s laughingstock meat…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The severity of the threat facing the Shawnigan Watershed from receiving 500 Tonnes of contaminated soil has been enough for the BC Environmental Appeal Board to allow…
Barack Obama wanted to introduce true, single-payer health care similar to what you find in Canada or much of Europe. He didn’t get his way due to pushback by Congressional…
RCMP corporal Ron Francis has created a problem for Justice Minister Peter MacKay. Francis has post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, for which he smokes pot. He has a medical exemption to…
A repost from 2007, and 2008. Just to say that at this time of year, and especially this year with the economy still in the trench, there are children who…
How about 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0? Not just one missile sitting in some lonesome silo in North Dakota. The lot of them. For twenty years, before more elaborate safeguards were put in place,…
Step one for everyone trying to make the world a better place should be listening to those they wish to help. This is certainly true in the case of Haiti,…
Your news links for today: Canada allowed U.S. to spy on G20 leaders at Toronto summit, top secret documents reveal (National Post) Reports: US spied at Canada conferences (Al Jazeera)…
Harper’s leadership is becoming increasingly shaky in the wake of the Senate Expenses scandal. Rick Mercer’s Rant this week hit the nail on the head as far as Harper’s denials…
It’s difficult to believe that it’s been less than six months since the whole world learned that the U.S. government was collecting the telephone records of millions of Americans. Edward…
The IPCC has released a very snazzy video that summarizes the fifth assessment report.
Real Climate gives the recent methane news some proper context. The bottom line is that since methane is a short lived GHG it would take a very sudden and very…
Ironically, Statistics Canada’s third-quarter GDP report on Black Friday showed the growth rate of consumption being cut in half. Final consumption expenditure grew by 0.4% in the third quarter compared…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, November 29, 2013: Sexual harassment cases in Manitoba on the rise? Orangeville lawyer disbarred by Law Society…
It’s the things that go wrong in the health system that often preoccupy us. While we frequently look for big answers, it is often in the everyday efforts that real…
Assorted content to end your week. – Stuart Trew fleshes out the Cons’ new(-ly explicit) Corporate Cronies Action Plan – and it goes even further in entrenching corporate control over…
The National Post and Toronto Sun have both put out pieces trying to justify the NSA’s presence as “just doing their jobs”. The only problem? The jobs they assume they…
Dear U.S. Friends: I know at least one of you is likely to read this, because I see evidence of your visits in my web site’s analytics all the time.…
The Senate scandal has shredded Stephen Harper’s credibility. You would think that would cause a caucus revolt. But, Michael Den Tandt writes, it isn’t happening: I caught nary a whisper…
It is probably disrespectful to our prehistoric ancestors to think of some people arguing about how we vote as cave-dwelling troglodytes. They seem to insist on going backwards instead of…
