TweetOutgoing mayor of Cochrane Truper McBride has raised questions about the involvement of Wildrose MLA Rob Anderson in the ‘Team Airdrie United’ slate of candidates running in the October municipal…
Last-second field goal gives Lions victory over RoughridersThat makes three losses in a row for our boys. Ouch! And two of our field goal attempts hit the post. Two!
Tahltan elders and supporters in the Sacred Headwaters (SkeenaWatershed.com) Read this Sept. 20 story from the Vancouver Observer on the standoff over a proposed open-pit coal mine in BC’s Sacred…
Originally published by The Progressive. Evan Vokes never gave any thought to whistleblowers before realizing he would need to blow a shrill blast against his former employer, TransCanada, the company…
Reblogged from Michael Roberts Blog: The German election has produced a victory for right-wing German Chancellor Mrs Angela Merkel, the best result for her party since 1990. However, the existing…
Stephen Harper meets with National AFN Chief Shawn Atleo in 2011 (Reuters) So Prime Minister Stephen Harper and members of his cabinet have been meeting with BC’s First Nations chiefs…
He writes, of what happened up in High River , where RCMP officers took guns from homes abandoned after this summer’s floods in Alberta: Nearly a half hour into his…
One of the most devastating problems that our society faces is that of addiction. Whether that is to tobacco, alcohol or narcotics – any substance addiction can have long term…
Pakistan’s government is now testing Canadian software – one that can block millions of sites a second. Article by Katharine Houreld for Reuters: In a nondescript, creeper-draped building in the…
I couldn’t resist a chuckle over a study reported in the October issue of the journal Psychological Medicine. The study, entitled “Spiritual and religious beliefs as risk factors for the…
Do you know of the Atlantic Press Council? It’s a sort of Better Business Bureau. That is, it’s an organization set up, supposely, to police people – in this case,…
I did the following picture in January 2010. He won 2011 elections and pro-rogueing has become the norm. I thought I will post this picture again as it conveys Stephen…
It’s called a “dead cat bounce”. It’s based on the premise that even a dead cat bounces when it slips off a 12th floor balcony and lands on the sidewalk…
Guess it depends on what you have to say: A journalism professor at the University of Kansas was placed on indefinite administrative leave Friday after he Tweeted about the Navy…
Louis LaPierre of Dieppe, N.B., is invested as Member to the Order of Canada by Governor General David Johnston, November 2012. Louis LaPierre has admitted he falsely claimed to have…
Today officially marks the end of “Democracy Week.” If you missed it, don’t feel bad. The commemoration received virtually no coverage in the corporate media. Our Chief Electoral Officer marked…
We had cold weather and warm weather this week, followed by rainy weather right now. Many of the summer flowers are looking a little bedraggled, but the cosmos continue to…
Thomas Mulcair, NDP running on electoral reform in 2015 Last night, in Toronto, Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair joined Toronto-Danforth MP Craig Scott at “Democracy Day on the Danforth,” a meeting…
This is from the US, but it concerns every Canadian along with every USian. From The Nation, emphasis mine. The Nation’s interactive database of civilian casualties in Afghanistan is an…
This story has been bouncing around the Canadian media since last May. Camille Parent, the son of a nursing home resident, set up a hidden camera in his mother’s room…
