MONTREAL – Quebec’s environment minister has announced a new inspection program will be carried out on known PCB sites in the province. Yves-Francois Blanchet says priority will be given to…
Back in the early 2000s when the economy was booming more than a quarter of million Ontarians experiencing serious mental illness could not find a job. Mental illness and poverty…
Check out this great video by The Ryan and Amy Show. Do you always feel like somebody’s watching you too? You can learn more about Canada’s largest pro-privacy coalition at…
Huffington Post has posted an article speculating on whether 2013 is the beginning of Harper’s demise. Long time readers of this space will know that my own personal reaction is…
Picking the exact date for the end of the world, without scientific evidence to back you up, makes you a fool. Harold Camping was a fool, and unscrupulous and foolish…
… I think of Canada’s citizenry, in its willingness to take whatever the Harper regime dishes out in the way of mean-spirited, regressive and repressive legislation, as a beaten-down dog.…
Last week Brian released his platform focused on building bridges within the party. You can view the platform . He also released a page explaining his view of the role…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger During the announcement of Nelson Mandela’s final passing and of course all through the teary eyed revisionist accounts of Canada’s involvement in ending apartheid, something did not…
In recent years we’ve become accustomed to severe weather hitting one part of the planet or another. Drought here, flooding there. Freezing cold fronts in one place, heat waves in…
The most recent Jobs Vacancy statistics are out, and the trend for 2013 so far has been a reduction in the number of job vacancies reported by businesses compared to…
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson (photo: facebook) Read this Dec. 4 story from The Province on the City of Vancouver’s opposition to the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion. Vancouver will oppose…
As per the letter below. They didn’t even bother to contact me, they considered his complaint so utterly without merit. Wow. Which reminds me: I still haven’t been arrested for…
Vancouver’s City Council is occasionally lauded as ‘progressive,’ and the ruling party – Vision Vancouver – takes significant pride in trumpeting their work on affordable housing as evidence of such.…
As I try to get back to work, how about this for the run up to Christmas
In diplomatic parlance it was nothing less than a punch in the face for the president of the United States delivered by a prominent member of the House of Saud.…
Read this Nov. 14 opinion piece by Chelsea Vowel in the Toronto Star pointing out a number of often-ignored facts in the Elsipogtog First Nation protest of explorartory work for…
It’s a crisp, foggy November Saturday morning in the south side of the city. Seventeen people sit in the large open area at the back end of an organic fair…
“What is the nature of art in a period of extreme ideological confusion and inverted political frustration?” That’s the question the iconic art critic John Berger struggled with in the…
….yesterday, as I commented on the news of Canada Post laying off almost everybody, I didn’t have the wit to do the simple, ten minute check I should have done.…
