Thursday, April 10, 2014 Following hot on the heels of the controversial Park Amendment Act (Bill 4), the BC government has introduced another bill that would open up some of…
“We are, of course, not in the world alone and our lives here are finite.” “Our individual and family responsibilities are primary. Yet the desire to accumulate private goods in…
Jim Flaherty, one of Canada’s longest serving Ministers of Finance, passed away today after a massive heart attack. He resigned just a month ago, being replaced by Joe Oliver. He…
It’s a busy week in the campus fossil fuel divestment movement. A “sit in” by students at the Washington University of St. Louis enters its third day today. The protestors…
Read this April 10 story from iPolitics, reporting that former Canadian Finance Minster Jim Flaherty is dead at the age of 64. Former finance minister Jim Flaherty died Thursday morning.…
New privacy legislation does nothing to protect Canadians from out-of-control government spying. That’s according to our own Steve Anderson, writing in today’s edition of the @Epoch Times. Please SHARE this…
I once said to a Conservative who was a friend of his that I thought he’d been a not-bad finance minister. She didn’t believe me. So I wrote this. Apparently…
Stunning news. One of the most influential politicians of his generation is gone all too soon.
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“If ferries stopped running to Vancouver Island, our grocery shelves would be completely empty after 3 days,” says food security activist-turned-rapper Jeremy Loveday. Watch his 3 min spoken word essay…
April 16, 8 pm, Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick, in TO. For CUP and student media! .
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A few interesting graphics forwarded to me by a colleague. (2) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
In recent years, Canadians have heard a lot about those extremist American conservation foundations. They’ve been called radicals, money-launderers and even compared to Al Qaeda in Canada’s Senate. More recently,…
In recent years, Canadians have heard a lot about those extremist American conservation foundations. They’ve been called radicals, money-launderers and even compared to Al Qaeda in Canada’s Senate. More recently,…
Two years ago, trains snaked through American towns and cities day and night often without residents, or even city officials, knowing they were carrying explosive crude oil from the Bakken…
Your news links for today: Heartbleed Ripped a Hole in the Internet – VICE Canada Has the NSA Been Using the Heartbleed Bug as an Internet Peephole? – WIRED Wild…
This year Toronto is witnessing a mayoral race between the worst mayor the city has ever seen and a few people who want his job. Not one candidate has come…
In one of my earlier posts about designated day creep, I cited evidence of a trend wherein the number of special days we mark in the union movement is growing…
Shrimp farming (Photo: Jughandle’s Fat Farm). Read this Jan. 14th article by TreeHugger about why you should stop eating shrimp, wild and farmed: Shrimp is the most popular seafood in…
