Moshe Safdie is one of Canada’s most celebrated architects. Best known for Habitat 67, a model community housing complex built for Expo 67, Safdie is also the architect behind both…
Everybody should be as happy about Alberta’s “Bitumen Gusher” as these two guys, your blogger and former Finance Minister Ron Liepert. Below: AUPE’s chart of the price differential between Alberta…
Arthur Kleinman understands families like mine. I know he does, because he wrote this: The chronically ill often are like those trapped at a frontier, wandering confused in a poorly…
With Sandra Pupatello, the Ontario Liberals had a chance at a big win in Windsor; without her, they don’t. The Ontario NDP will cruise to a win there, as things…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Cory Doctorow duly blasts the Harper Cons for meekly complying with an onerous copyright treaty which isn’t even in force. Which raises the…
Something has happened to the Harper government over the past few weeks and it must be deeply upsetting to those few caucus members who are not infected with the blind…
As regulars know, I spend a lot of time in hockey rinks. Two of my boys play in the GTHL, and one of them was seriously injured a few weeks…
I'm quite curious to see what all the various candidates tallies are on the Liberal "supporter" front today. But, given Trudeau is an almost certain winner, his staggering tally is…
I’m quite curious to see what all the various candidates tallies are on the Liberal “supporter” front today. But, given Trudeau is an almost certain winner, his staggering tally is…
I'm quite curious to see what all the various candidates tallies are on the Liberal "supporter" front today. But, given Trudeau is an almost certain winner, his staggering tally is…
Mondoweiss has a post about a prank story that ran in the Jewish Press over the Purim holiday. Under the headline – “Defying Boycotts, Jagger, Stones, to Honor Israel’s 65th…
While the race goes on in the background, two pieces to note that are out in the last 24 hours on Joyce Murray demonstrating her continuing ability to impress. There…
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As I mentioned in offering my endorsement, Ryan Meili has managed to cover all of the most important bases for a leadership candidate over the course of the campaign. On…
Apparently nearly 60% of Saskatchewan’s NDP members had already voted for a leadership candidate as of Friday, and the remaining candidates are all launching determined efforts to lock in all…
I’m quite curious to see what all the various candidates tallies are on the Liberal “supporter” front today. But, given Trudeau is an almost certain winner, his staggering tally is…
Either after the upcoming federal election, or the one after, the Green Party of Canada will fade away from existence. Firstly, its fundamental reason for existence has been taken on…
As we approach the umpteenth anniversary of the internationally-accessible Internet, a website is about as far from news as anyone can get. That’s why it was so laughable last week…
From the Times: “The results were both surprising and disturbing. Uncivil comments not only polarized readers, but they often changed a participant’s interpretation of the news story itself. In the…
Columnist says details of BCE Inc.’s bid to buy Astral Media are likely to cause a major stir in the Canadian media sector, as the company’s rivals launched an all-out…
