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Gymnast fun at Muscle Beach. Lots of walking. Space Shuttle Endeavor at the ScienCenter. Griffith’s Observatory Micheli’s off Hollywood Bl. Since 1949, it’s been my favourite place to eat in…
Gymnast fun at Muscle Beach. Lots of walking. Space Shuttle Endeavor at the ScienCenter. Griffith’s Observatory Micheli’s off Hollywood Bl. Since 1949, it’s been my favourite place to eat in…
I Live Tweeted the Vision Vancouver-sponsored event “Protecting Vancouver’s Cultural Spaces: How we can preserve culture in a growing city”- You can search the hashtag #VanCulturalSpaces for related tweets on…
Hassan Husseini is intent on forming a grassroots wave to revitalize the labour movement regardless of whether or not he wins the Canadian Labour Congress presidential election on May 8.…
TweetAt 10:00 a.m. on April 28, 2014, Hugh McPhail, a lawyer representing the Alberta Government requested the Court of Appeal to adjourn a scheduled hearing on Bill 46, the controversial…
Sujata, the name given to her by the previous human in her life, Kevin, is Sanskrit meaning “from a good family origin”; “Su” means “good”, “Jatakas” means “of good…
The dude on the news was talking about a recent study that seems to say that people with University degrees are earning less than people with high school degrees. Guy…
Two politicians who deserve some credit and kudos: federal Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and provincial Finance Minister Charles Sousa. Now, that’s a bit of a change from just a…
Leave to go camping a for five days and look at what we missed. There are a few stories of particular interest to our readers, such as the anti-immigration flyers…
The online version of the Post Independent, the local daily newspaper in heavily-drilled Garfield County, Colorado, is prominently displaying black-and-white banner ads that read, “Blowing the Lid off Fracking Colorado.”…
On March 29, 2013, ExxonMobil‘s Pegasus tar sands pipeline ruptured in Mayflower, Arkansas, sending hundreds of thousands of gallons of diluted bitumen (“dilbit”) pouring down the town’s streets. Now, just…
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) threatens to make your Internet more censored, expensive, and policed. Worse: it’s being negotiated in secret, and even our MPs don’t know what’s on the table.…
Monday, April 28, 2014 New regulations under the Fisheries Act allow Canada’s Fisheries and Environment Ministers to give blanket authorization to cause pollution in fish habitat in a range of…
A new campaign for transparency is pushing British Columbia to become the first province to require mining, oil and gas companies to reveal what they pay to domestic and foreign…
The Alberta PCs may very well be beyond saving, but if anyone can give new life to the 43-year old dynasty, it’s Jim Prentice.
Much has been made in some sectors of the media about former premier Alison Redford’s absence from the legislature since her resignation. It seems the Princess Premier has not attended…
You wouldn’t let law enforcement open your mail without a warrant, so why would you let them keep track of every email you receive? How about your phone records and…
Premier Clark’s chickens coming home to roost! The chickens are coming home to roost as Premier Christy Clark winds down the first year of her 4 year mandate to govern,…
This is a guest post by Andrew Leach, Enbridge Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Alberta. It originally appeared in Maclean’s magazine and is republished here with permission.…
Each year more Ontarians lose their lives through their job than by criminal homicide. It’s a sobering thought. In 2012 the WSIB reported 254 workplace-related fatalities and more than 140,000…
The recent news that Canada posted a $5 billion surplus in February has been taken by some as an indication that we’re well on our way to getting the budget…