http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2014/11/30/mayorelect_john_tory_unveils_his_new_team.html# This article by the star outlines who will fill the seats. In short, the new government looks a lot like the old government. Only one, possibly two councillors are…
The Ion LRT is going to take three long years to build, three years of construction and traffic jams, three years of mud, three years of inconvenience and unpleasantness. The…
Tweet November 24, 2014 marked 25 years since members of the Canadian Parliament voted unanimously to end child poverty in our country. The motion introduced by then-NDP leader Ed Broadbent…
Larry Summers, former secretary of the treasury and top economic advisor to President Barack Obama, has strongly advocated to lift the crude oil export ban. And he has a compelling,…
Somewhere between the time that Premier Hancock stepped down and Premier Prentice ascended to the throne, the PC caucus turned into a bunch of sniveling crybabies. Not to worry, Mr…
The European Union has already institutionalized a litmus test that cuts to the core of the differences that separate the new European view of shared risks and vulnerabilities from the…
Revolutionary thought of the day: All of this is why any attempt to rise to the climate challenge will be fruitless unless it is understood as part of a much…
Scott Gilmore, whoever that is, has raised quite a stink with his paternalistic column about how women should overcome their pitiful $100 excuses and run for office already. He deserves…
OPINION by Editorial – Cowichan News Leader Pictorial For the past decade or more, we’ve heard Duncan council talk multiple times about the need for gateways. These magical, mystical (some…
One of the things you learn in studying history is how many lies there are that we believe are truths. One of them is that going to war is good…
Tabitha Southey has a brilliant column in the Globe and Mail Hey, white person, imagine if you were stopped as though you were black : …Let’s imagine, for example, you’re…
Dear Mr. Prentice, In responding to MLA Laurie Blakeman’s Bill 202 as you did, you have just thrown LGBT students under the political bus AGAIN. Let me be abundantly clear…
Good life: Retirement? What’s that? By Peter W. Rusland Image Credit: Peter W. Rusland For Richard Hughes, retirement just means more time to break out the pitchforks. – Retirement for…
The lack of access to clean drinking water for hundreds of First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities across Canada, is a national shame, says environmentalist David Suzuki. The post David…
I watched Robert Reich’s film last summer on a camping trip. I woke up in the middle of a pitch-dark night and couldn’t fall back asleep. I tried a movie…
Are there things that money shouldn’t be able to buy? In an age when the ‘wisdom of the market’ is an orthodoxy embraced by many, it is a question that…
Well it was only a matter of time before somebody totalled up the damage from the plunging price of oil.Added it to Stephen Harper's reckless decision to spend billions trying…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Mark Gongloff takes a look at social mobility research from multiple countries, and finds that there’s every reason for concern that inheritance…
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ Stephen Harper is in power because the two so called “progressive” alternatives have spent more time fighting each other than fighting him. The current furor over sexual harassment continues…
