Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Shawnigan resident Sonia Furstenau has been following the South Island Aggregates (SIA) efforts to import 5 million tonnes of contaminated soils to their Stebbings Road property in…
Here are the leading legal headliens from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, August 6, 2014: US legal sector losses 200 jobs in July Female players say fake soccer turf…
TweetOne-hundred and thirty-six days after Alison Redford was forced to resign as Premier of Alberta, she has announced that she will resign as the MLA for Calgary-Elbow. Through an opinion-editorial…
You would think that this far into the summer, when many readers are taking a holiday from politics, that bloggers could also take a well-deserved (if not earned) break. It…
Car traffic cripples cities and destroys them. For the last hundred years the common solution to transportation issues was to cater to car drivers and this has left us with…
When writing about her adopted home of Ontario in Roughing it in the Bush, settler Susanna Moodie recalls penning a letter to Lieutenant-Governor Sir George Arthur requesting that he continue…
http://publications.mcgill.ca/ Stephen Harper claims that his is a steady hand at the economic tiller. But now even the conservative C.B. Howe Institute disputes that claim. Carol Goar writes: But as…
Yesterday I wrote about the plight of Salma Abuelaish, the eight-year-old girl whose family moved to Canada from Gaza and became Canadian citizens five years ago. Having accompanied her father,…
I recently read The Given Day, Dennis Lehane’s novel about 1919 Boston, especially the Boston police strike, and the widescale rioting that followed. The book is an engaging hybrid of…
The provincial government headquarters offices in St. John’s will be closed on Wednesday for the annual St. John’s regatta. There won’t be any news releases most likely. But so far, …
In Ontario, peaceful activists have stopped construction work on an Enbridge Line 9 pipeline site, arguing that Line 9 posed “a danger to people, animals, land, and water.” The post…
He's slashing the CBC, like only a Con, or a Jack the Ripper could. He's draining its life blood, chopping it into pieces, and cooking it in his hellish kitchen.The…
So because of my retirement I had to give up my office laptop so I bought one of my own, just another good old lenovo think pad which I’m used…
Moshe Feiglin – deputy speaker of the Knesset and a member of Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party – published a statement on his Facebook page on August 1 calling for the…
John Spencer thinks that education is filled with paradox, and lists a number of sources. I couldn’t help but notice that I didn’t see the paradox in any item on…
John Ashton, author of today’s guest post. Below: Rachel Notley, David Eggen and Rod Loyola. Alberta’s NDP made it official today with the close of nominations: there are three candidates…
Well I hope he's satisfied. I hope his wild cheerleading for the savage assault on Gaza earns him a tin medal from the Netanyahu regime.Or a wet kiss from his…
Cats with toys.
Abby Wambach and coalition of female soccer greats informs FIFA that requiring women to play the 2015 World Cup on artificial turf is discriminatory against women, violates Canadian law. The…
A Russian criminal gang is said to have stolen internet credentials including 1.2-billion username and password combinations plus half a billion e-mail addresses. Milwaukee-based, Hold Security, says the data was…
