So this is the state of Republican Congressional leadership. With tension around fiscal cliff negotiations in the House of Representatives, Speaker of the House John Boehner is reported to have…
..no matter how great the urge. I don’t know what this latest round of flu or colds or whatever is all about. But it’s a honey. I’ve slept only one…
#HarperRegime‘s neoliberal immigration policy: we help only those who can help us, not those who need help. bit.ly/THkytI #cdnpoli — Barry Cameron (@AppalledBC) January 2, 2013
I enjoyed reading Thomas King’s new book “The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America.” I’ll stop short of saying “it’s something everyone should read,” but…
My favourite: Poor Rick Perry as his ‘Oops’ended his candidacy.
Everybody else has done their lists, but as usual I’m a little behind. For the next few days, I think I’ll share my faves of the year, starting with The…
I somehow missed this awesome ad for the 2012 Queer Lisboa 16 - Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival commercial created by the agency FUEL Lisbon. It hits one of…
I somehow missed this awesome ad for the 2012 Queer Lisboa 16 – Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival commercial created by the agency FUEL Lisbon. It hits one of…
I somehow missed this awesome ad for the 2012 Queer Lisboa 16 - Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival commercial created by the agency FUEL Lisbon. It hits one of…
I want to tell you about a writer who looked old in his mid-30s. He walked with a cane. He was overweight, lethargic, pasty-faced and depressed. It was no wonder.…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, January 02, 2012: Players union set to respond Wednesday to latest NHL offer – Yahoo! Sports The…
I somehow missed this awesome ad for the 2012 Queer Lisboa 16 – Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival commercial created by the agency FUEL Lisbon. It hits one of…
Article by Michael Geist: From the remarkable battle over the Stop Online Piracy Act to the massive public backlash against Internet surveillance in Canada, law and technology issues garnered headlines…
The Liberal Party’s traditional strategy of campaigning from the left and governing from the right led the late Rene Levesque to conclude that the party was “the biggest whorehouse in…
Last week I wrote two posts on the Harper regime’s ideological decision not to impose mandatory reporting of drug shortages on the pharmaceutical industry. The government instead has placed its…
A bit of advice from Bob Newhart: But you shouldn’t stop going to Alltop.
Barbara Kay on those damn teenagers and their damn New Year’s firecrackers…in The Netherlands. Kind of a “B. Kay Channels M. Wente” column. Wente will probably steal it six months…
Shannon Ryan’s A history of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic to 1818 is an engaging, accessible account of the English in Newfoundland from the earliest arrival through to the end…
Libs’ ‘Job Plan’ not enough to tackle poverty, Trish Garner, The Province, Dec 2012 “…B.C. has the largest gap between the rich and the poor, and the highest poverty rate…
In 2009 I was following a blog by James Duncan, a communications professor at Anderson University. He had criticised a bill board campaign by New Springs Church, headed by a…
