A coalition of First Nations and conservation groups are suing the Yukon government over a controversial new land-use plan for the Peel River watershed. The Nacho Nyak Dun and Tr’ondek…
Congenital heart defects are the leading cause of all infant deaths in the US A new study, published last week in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives, draws a correlation…
The Middle Class Is Steadily Eroding. Just Ask the Business World. – NYTimes.com. In Manhattan, the upscale clothing retailer Barneys will replace the bankrupt discounter Loehmann’s, whose Chelsea store closes…
C4 is in NewsToday, the place for big national and international news. At the top of the page is a story about Toronto mayor Rob Ford. He got a jaywalking…
Watching a sampling of presentations to the province’s all-party standing committee looking at the upcoming spring budget, many organizations are couching their language in the context of ongoing fiscal restraint.…
Spying by ultra-secretive spy agency CSEC is secretive, expensive and out-of-control. With further evidence of CSEC spying illegally on law-abiding citizens, decision-makers are taking a strong stand in support of…
“Lord” Black is a criminal. "Honours do not make a man" ww2.nationalpost.com/m/wp/blog.html… insists the man who renounced Canadian citizenship to become a "Lord." OK, then.— CC (@canadiancynic) February 03, 2014…
… but no one is. Yet then PM Chrètien led by example back in 1993 when he came to power and significantly cut his Ministers’ budgets. Tired of the ballooning…
Any policy or law that denies people their culture is genocide. No adjective of “cultural” is required; genocide is genocide. In the Anishinaabeg tradition, the place where rivers intersect is…
Last summer, I asked for help in turning my drab lentil soup into something more yummy and enticing. Thanks to wmtc readers, I’ve done it. Yesterday for the first time,…
Counterfeit Cash, a Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash tribute band based in Portland, Oregon, has just released a new music video, “Coal Train Blues,” a cover of the Man…
To the person who sent us the link yesterday to those incredible resources. You also wrote that you had sent us an email as well however we were unable to…
I can think of not one positive thing to say about Julian Fantino. Apparently, Toronto Star readers can’t either: Fantino ‘absolutely regrets’ clash with veterans, Jan. 30 There is no…
Nearly 6,000 views since it appeared on Friday. Coincidentally, 6,000 is the relevant number for illegal campaign donations Rob Ford took in the last election.
My view on Sochi remains the same – we shouldn’t have gone and ignored/validated Putin’s gay-hate. My friend Strombo just tweeted something, however, you should read: a member of the…
The following commercial – and similar commercials – are shown every day, singing the songs of fracking and how it is supposedly safe. The reality is quite different. Fracking causes…
It takes years of writing a blog to realize what you are really doing. You do not want to be a nag, but you are. You are not just a…
Under Harper, of course, the size of ministerial budgets and staffs have ballooned. Some fiscal conservatives, eh? Was a fun read, by Beeby, here.
The last loaf of January, 2014 was a machine-made corn bread, made using a recipe from Washburn’s & Butt’s 300 Best Canadian Bread Machine Recipes book that I’ve mentioned previously.…
