Elections can be burdensome on the public. Kathleen Wynne (Liberal): “Just received some good polling numbers. Time to threaten an election.” They cost hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. They…
My oldest daughter, Veronica, has started to speak in ways that I don’t always understand. Having turned 3 years of age this past summer, I’ve noticed that she has picked…
Media Culpa’s take-down is just what it deserves. That is all.
In her new book, Blue Future, international bestselling author and activist Maude Barlow warns about the grave consequences of the deepening global water crisis. The post Maude Barlow: Blue Future:…
Critics of religion (such as myself) are sometimes not precise enough in our criticisms. We will sometimes lash out that the “moderate Muslims” don’t condemn fundamentalists enough or complain that…
Is the CRTC getting tired with how Big Telecom continues to price-gouge Canadians whenever they can? It certainly looks like it. If you haven’t already, speak out against Big Telecom’s…
Singer comes out swinging against Keystone Pipeline. OTTAWA – Neil Young is singing a new tune, claiming he’s seen the pipeline and the damage done. The Canadian music legend has…
Lately, there has been much of an uproar made over the PQ’s “Charter of Quebec Values” in the news. Frankly, the entire thing strikes me as a ridiculous bit of…
Canada’s Harper-ment is getting increasingly desperate. The quest to double production out of the Alberta tar sands needs new pipelines (or rail). In recent months, we have seen new proposals…
Public services are lost one at a time, often incrementally. Take the Shelburne Hospital. Once a partner site of Headwaters Health Care, services were removed from the community one-by-one until…
The news of UBC Sauder Business School students chanting about rape of underage girls during a FROSH week event has generated much outrage. As it should. While the chant might…
About Prince Charles: Shortly after their first meeting, I bumped into Prince Charles. “I had a meeting with Mr. Prescott recently,” he said. “Ah,” I said, “how did it go?”…
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, discussing trade on a visit to China (Sean Kilpatrick/CP) Ask yourself this: why, if Canada has the third largest proven oil reserves in the world, is…
Methane flaring from gas-drilling wellsNina Berman/NOOR This Is What Fracking Really Looks Like by David Rosenberg Photographer Nina Berman had just started focusing on climate and environmental issues when she…
Shellie Zimmerman’s 911 call Well it’s hard to be sympathetic to her. She covered for him at the trial for his killing of Trayvon Martin.
Issa assembles a locally handmade mortar shell.Hamid Khatib / Reuters 10-year-old Syrian boy works 10-hour days, six days a week alongside father in weapons factory. See more pictures here.
Canadian Innovators continue to speak out against Big Telecom’s stranglehold on our wireless market. Check out this top story in the Huffington Post’s Business Section. If you’re an innovator, business…
This is really too much. Hurricanes, floods, droughts, all aggravated by climate change, and now the cruelest blow of all—it’s ruining our tea. India produces one-third of the world’s tea…
Three years after a major dilbit spill on Michigan’s Kalamazoo River, pipeline operator Enbridge is still at work on the cleanup. If it can’t clean a shallow river in three…
China is taking a page out of North America’s book, discovering that antibiotics are the key to industrial livestock production. Already half the antibiotics used in China go to keeping…
