Since moving to Canada in 2005, my experiences with Ontario’s health care system have been extremely positive. Through the public system, my partner and I have been able to access…
As my stock of bread dwindles, I’m contemplating what breads to bake this weekend, as well as what I may want to try before the New Year. I’m also pondering…
In Part 1 of this blogseries, I laid out a logic model which started with the most important number to Canada’s, and the world’s, economic health: 2 degrees Celsius. Following…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Paul Krugman writes about the effect of a precarious labour market on even the relatively few workers who enjoy relatively secure employment:…
The Tyee has dusted off a piece which Murray Dobbin wrote four years ago. It’s worth a read. Dobbin maintains that progressives have been infected by the same consumer culture…
Come, my friends. ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite the sounding furrows; – Ulysses – Alfred, Lord Tennyson I…
You just hate to be the curmudgeon who is always complaining about those damn filthy, smelly beer stores in Ontario. A complainant can feel lonely. You start to doubt yourself.…
We now present the final installment in our autumn-long series of special commentaries marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of “A Staple Theory of Economic Development,” the classic article…
If you watched our little icebreaker trying to clear a channel to the Toronto Islands today, you might wonder if it's heading in the right direction.Or whether it might also…
John Lennon`s Happy Christmas (War Is Over).
A controlled explosion of an American fuel convoy in Iraq being filmed on the set of ?Over There?, a Fox TV production about the life of a US Army platoon…
Pope Francis would have agreed with John Lennon (and Francis is likely the first pope since John XXIII who would have done so): Pope Francis, celebrating his first Christmas as…
Prime Minister Stephen Harper over flooded Calgary last June. Apparently there’s no sign of him anywhere near Toronto now. Below: Then U.S. President George W. Bush over New Orleans in…
I think I about covered the gamut in the title, but on this Christmas night, I hope your Christmas was delightful (or will be, as I know some have a…
It’s wrong to think that we can campaign to stop climate change in the same way we might campaign to end a war. All the evidence says we are well…
What do you think the chances are that Canada will get saddled with Lockheed’s F-35 light attack bomber? South Korea is aboard, so is Japan. Norway is buying some along…
Sweden’s former prime minister Goran Person once described Kaliningrad this way: “It is heavily polluted. There are illnesses there like AIDS and tuberculosis. There is atomic waste. You find almost…
There’s a sort of pathology at work in right wingers like Stephen Harper or his new Australian buddy, Tony Abbott. They’ve both got the instincts of a wolverine inside a…
