If you’re an Ontario Liberal voting in leadership election meetings this weekend, I hope you’ll consider supporting Gerard Kennedy and your local Kennedy delegates. And if you’re voting in Scarborough-Centre,…
When Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership race started, one of the most important questions for all of the candidates was the level of organization Ryan Meili would bring to the campaign: whether…
I recently received an e-mail from Hedy Fry about “how to find Liberals near you.” Truth be told, I’d rather know how to find Mormons near me because rumour has…
Let’s hope money can buy happiness because it sure isn’t buying Americans much in the way of health. A report from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences finds that, although…
Nobody wants to give in to a bully. Indeed teachers teach students not to give in to bullies and teachers are expected to be role models and teach by example.…
Nobody wants to give in to a bully. Indeed teachers teach students not to give in to bullies and teachers are expected to be role models and teach by example.…
Check out this video produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists which features featuring two scientists — one politically conservative, the other tending toward the Democrats — who make the…
…when Exhibit A extends to Exhibits B-C-D, when the allegations start stacking up, then what you’ve got is a pattern and a pathology, not an anomaly. A career lies in…
Not surprisingly, I have some reservations about Kai Nagata’s view that the federal Lib leadership campaign has much to offer toward the development of progressive politics in Canada. But I’ll…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, January 11, 2013: Planned Ontario teachers protest illegal, labour board rules Joe Biden: Obama prepared to use…
Bell looks to the CRTC for an abbreviated public hearing in its second application to acquire Astral.
Nobody wants to give in to a bully. Indeed teachers teach students not to give in to bullies and teachers are expected to be role models and teach by example.…
TweetThe low price of oil and natural gas and an election promise of “no new taxes, no service cuts” has put Alberta’s Tories in an unenviable political bind and set…
Carol Goar writes that Stephen Harper’s reputation as a brilliant economic manager has more to do with luck than expertise. That luck showed up in the person of Mark Carney:…
McGuinty was right. The renegade unions were wrong. Their “protest” was and is illegal. There’s a lesson, here, for a couple Ontario Liberal leadership candidates, I’d say. UPDATE: Comment from…
Dr. Dawg has written a terrific piece about the mainstream media’s disturbing, if predictable, response to the courageous actions of Chief Theresa Spence. Extraordinary things, we are being instructed, may…
This piece originally appeared on Mother Jones as part of Climate Desk. Everybody who’s written or blogged about climate change on a prominent website (or, even worse, spoken about it…
Most of the scientific community and a large number of other thinking hominids believe global warming to be an observed increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere and…
Til Debt Do Us Part: Reality Television and Poverty
I’m traveling for business and that means several things. Most predictably it means come the evening, I’m getting on a tread mill to exercise. I’m in Edmonton. It’s cold. Like…