HONG KONG – State-owned CNOOC, which made China’s biggest-ever overseas energy acquisition last year, said Friday that annual profit fell 9.3 per cent because of higher costs for exploration and…
Earlier today I engaged in a small thought experiment in which I asked Joyce Murray for an explanation of her participation in the cabinet of Gordon Campbell. My language was…
WIND Mobile, Canada’s largest independent cell phone provider, is being put up for sale. This could very well mean less choice in Canada’s cell phone market – especially if WIND…
By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive In Parliament earlier this week, New Democrat MP for Scarborough-Rouge River Rathika Sitsabaiesan and fellow NDP MPs urged the Harper government to take…
Advocating for care is a complicated task. The job of caregiving does not discriminate on the basis of family income, race, education or employment status. Anyone, anytime can find themselves…
In 2011, globalization depressed wages for non-college educated American workers 5.5%, or roughly $1,800 per annum. That’s bad but it pales in comparison with this claim: As a point of…
Last year I attempted to analyze the massive omni-budget but eventually gave up when I saw that the government’s risks underestimated the real global risks we were about to face…
Anyone with an interest in autism in NB is invited to tomorrow’s meeting at MacLaggan Hall, UNB Fredericton Campus, doors open at 12:00 noon, meeting starts at 12:30 pm. Special…
Damn it, Janet! It’s not the Harper Government. It’s the Government of Canada. And so it shall forever remain. By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive You know the power…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Don Maroc called this morning after reading the front page story in the Colonist about the CRD’s secret land deal to build a sewage treatment…
Christie in his law kiosk Not surprisingly, we've already been criticized for our focus on Doug Christie by our friends at Free Dominion, including what might be a veiled (and…
The lies and deception. Bill Moyers Journal: Buying the War from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
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GATINEAU, Que. — Criminal charges against Sen. Patrick Brazeau will next be dealt with on June 10, with the prosecution suggesting his legal team is using delay tactics in the…
Cardinals attend the inaugural mass of Pope Francis in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican on March 19. (Stefano Rellandini/Reuters)
Thursday night at the Canadian War Museum, in a debate presented by the Macdonald Laurier Institute (macdonaldlaurier.ca), sponsored by the Ottawa Citizen and moderated by historian Jack Granatstein, Michael Bliss…
Outspoken Mississauga mayor Hazel McCallion lit up the Standing Committee on Justice Policy at Queen’s Park Thursday morning with testimony on the government’s 2011 decision to cancel a proposed gas…
The media is swamped with articles about the 10th anniversary of the Anglo-American conquest of Iraq. To those of us in the “I Told You So” camp, most of these…
Last night, a good fairy flew into my room, hovered for some minutes, and we chatted. But I’ll discuss that at the end._______________________________________________________________________________The best that can be said of the…
