Why The European Commission Is Wrong: The Case Of Spain – Social Europe Journal. The Vice President of the European Commission, Olli Rehn, in charge of Economic and Monetary Affairs…
I imagine that many people who follow politics closely do so in the belief that it is one of the few arenas that offers the possibility of change on a…
Teddy here with a quick update on results of the Indian election; the largest free elections in the world. As I’ve been mentioning for a while now, the election takes…
I don’t always read her, and I frequently disagree with her. But much of this DiManno column is overdue and on the mark. I cannot tell you how many Liberals…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, May 16, 2014: “A Lawyer Breaks the Silence About Depression Among Lawyers” Clippers owner Donald Sterling threatens…
Carol Goar writes that the NDP has forsaken its traditional role as the champion of the poor. That is the case with Tom Mulcair’s federal party. And it certainly is…
The City of Toronto is in the most trouble. It really needs a break. The city and even the province are suffering from hyper-politicossis. It is a rare disease that…
A midwife in Vernal, Utah, has raised a red flag about a spike in the number of stillbirths and neonatal deaths in the small town in 2013. The concern has…
There surely could not have been a more outrageous sight than the spectacle of Tom Mulcair today being grilled like a criminal.And accused by the Cons of using parliamentary funds…
An article in the January 13, 2014 issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Autism spectrum disorder: advances in evidence-based practice, confirms what American authorities have told us for decades,…
Senator Fabian Manning says that the 2008 Anything but Conservative campaign is stilling hurting the province in dealing with the federal government. “There’s no doubt in my mind that the…
When British Columbia conducts LNG negotiations behind closed doors, without public statements of principles or bargaining frameworks, citizens should worry. I have written about our government’s willingness to provide the…
I’ve mentioned our wonderful accommodations in Giverny and outside Rouen, but each deserves a post of its own. I’ll review them on TripAdvisor but for Googleability, I’d like to do…
I have to admit that I sometimes find it hard to take Tim Hudak seriously. He's such a goof, such a lousy campaigner, such a loser. Until I remember that…
EU officials plotted IMF attack to bring rebellious Italy to its knees – Telegraph Blogs. The revelations about EMU skulduggery are coming thick and fast. Tim Geithner recounts in his…
Chinese workers building Canadian railways – another sordid story of “temporary foreign workers.” Below: B.C. Premier Christy Clark and Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan. British Columbia Premier Christy…
Labour-reform decree gets final approval – English – ANSA.it. The Lower House on Thursday gave final approval to the government’s decree to simplify Italy’s labour-market regulations. It passed with 279…
Tweet In party leadership races, endorsements by sitting MLAs can be a double-edged sword. Endorsements can lend credibility to candidates and individual MLAs own local political networks to the campaign.…
You may not have caught this from CalgaryGrit, aka Dan Arnold, so I’ll post a link to it and briefly mention that he is taking a hiatus from regular blogging…
If you sometimes get the impression that 80% of political journalism is preoccupied with when an election is going to take place, you’d be wrong. The correct figure is around…
