Sometimes it is really hard to keep balance. How does one balance parenting with everything else? I don’t want to undervalue my husband’s contribution to our family life – his…
I hope you didn’t miss it. The events of the past month in that distant corner of the world, the mid-east, shone a light of fierce brilliance on our own…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – John Millar writes that a determined effort to eliminate poverty would be a plus as a matter of mere public accounting (even…
I’m going to quote at some length from David Wiley’s Facebook page to set this up (so you don’t have to go get a Facebook account to read this), and…
A couple of weeks ago Maclean’s political editor Paul Wells, taking note of the decline in pro-independence sentiment in Quebec, gave some of the credit to Prime Minister Harper. This…
http://www.pm.gc.ca/ Rumour has it that CETA — the Canadian-European Trade Agreement — is in trouble. The problem is the Investor-State Dispute Settlement mechanism. Germany doesn’t like it. Jim Stanford writes:…
This is a library! (Image found here.) This article about the incredible Nieuwe Bibliotheek (New Library) in the Netherlands got me thinking about the current state of libraries – and…
Here. A flim-flam artist is someone who engages in a “trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game.” Yep. .
You know, there are times when we have to wonder what good karma we have amassed for fortune to fall into our laps. Ladies and gentlemen, might we introduce you…
As Ontario reflects on Emancipation Day, I think it is crucial to remember the role of both Upper Canada and British North America in the Atlantic Slave Triangle, one of…
Enough of this mealy-mouthed graciousness, already! They are getting rid of Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair and good riddance to him. It is surprising that he had the gall to…
Stephen Harper’s attack on those charities that refuse to hew to the regime’s dogma and ideology is becoming increasingly recognized for what it is: the wanton, immoral, unethical and likely…
Gaza deaths reported to July 8 – July 30 – 1,363, Injured – 6,780 the majority being civilians, including women and children. Israeli deaths – 58 just two of which…
As if the situation in Gaza wasn't bad enough. As if the need for serious diplomacy to end the slaughter couldn't be greater.As if Canada wasn't enough of a rogue…
Israel kills 40 Palestinians immediately following the collapse of the ceasefire in Gaza, and the capture of an Israeli soldier, reports Democracy Now! The post Democracy Now!: Gaza Ceasefire Collapses,…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Canada, once the peacekeeping nation of merit and respect has been downgraded in the eyes of international observers since being led by right wing ideologue, Conservative Party…
America loves her capital punishment, she’s just not very good at it. In fact, the process of state sanctioned murder has a richly deserved reputation for being barbaric and routinely…
Considering how long the venerable Canadian Football League has been around, remarkably little has been written about its turbulent history. That lack of information makes End Zones & Border Wars…
This is the weekend that I’m usually thinking about harvesting our pears before the squirrels do. The two trees in our backyard have born fruit for more than 25 years.…
