A few months ago, Dean Del Mastro expressed his impatience with the Elections Canada investigation into his campaign spending. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s parliamentary secretary is demanding that Elections Canada…
Here is the IPCC message: We are as certain that humans are radically changing the planet’s climate as we are that tobacco causes cancer. Peter Gleick
Assorted content to end your week. – Jordan Brennan and Jim Stanford put to rest any attempt to minimize the growth of inequality in Canada: (I)ncome inequality has reached a…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, September 27, 2013: The Supreme Court’s Hands Aren’t Clean in U.S. National Nightmare Germany charges 93-year-old alleged…
Liberal leadership candidate Danny Dumaresque wants to reform the provincial election laws to ban corporate donations, as the Telegram reported on Thursday. “I think in Newfoundland and Labrador, we’ve got…
Paul Krugman in The New York Times writes about the Titans of Finance comparing uproar about their huge bonuses to lynching or Nazis invading Poland: “Sometimes the wealthy talk as…
As I said on Brian Lilley’s program last night. Check it out. I’m on just before the six minute mark.
A conventional overview of world history from the early 20th century to the 1970s would likely talk of World Wars, Cold Wars, and proxy wars. It would, to be blunt,…
Del Mastro the Dean of them all. Step aside Duffy and Pamela the Maestro himself is here. “Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro has quit the party’s caucus after he and…
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has interesting friends. As the Prime Minister said in New York the other day, neither he nor his friends take ‘No’ for an answer. It was…
Big time. I’m biased, but I’d say she’s pretty good at this TV stuff.
If you were hoping that Stephen Harper was re-evaluating his approach to people — particularly Barack Obama — yesterday should have dashed that hope. Speaking before the Canadian American Business…
Over the past few months, I’ve watched with keen interest as Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans, two British comics that I hadn’t heard of before, founded and started hosting The…
It took a while for the Alabama public to understand that their state is being transformed into a tar sands Mecca. Proposals for rail and pipeline transport and tar sands…
Some very smart female women are yelling at him here and here. I yelled at him a bit here, but these two gals have the amps cranked to 11. Much…
In a few days Kingston Penitentiary will close. Originally constructed in 1833–1834 it is one of the oldest prisons in continuous use in the world. The current federal government has…
For the next installment in our special series of commentaries marking the 50th anniversary of Mel Watkins’ classic article, “A Staple Theory of Economic Development,” we provide excerpts from the…
Athens riot police fire tear gas at an anti-fascist protest calling for action against the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party following a rapper’s murder. Photo: Milos Bicanski/Getty No country has displayed…
