Yesterday, I was discussing in a Facebook Liberal thread Anita Vandenbeld’s win as the next candidate to represent the LPC in Ottawa-Nepean, and the fact that of 635 votes cast,…
It’s not gasoline either. We’re not that lucky. We’re fast running out of something that eclipses fossil fuel in significance – groundwater. Underground water has been propping up the Green…
Your news links for today: Warrantless Access to Subscriber Information: Has the Tide Turned on Canada’s Privacy Embarrassment? – Michael Geist Internet plans in Canada a real horror story –…
Sea otters score top marks on the cute and cuddly scale as they float around kelp beds holding hands or hugging fuzzy pups, but when they show up on the…
Sea otters score top marks on the cute and cuddly scale as they float around kelp beds holding hands or hugging fuzzy pups, but when they show up on the…
Voter turn-out for school board elections in Quebec yesterday was abysmal, particularly in Francophone boards. While about 20 per cent of English school board electors voted, province-wide it appears that…
I love how they call me a “political raconteur.” Anyway – if you are in the neighbourhood on November 12 (and even if you aren’t), try and come by. It’s…
Stephen Harper’s ‘Just Society’ is just for the rich …………
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jim Stanford points out that the choice to leave drug development to the market resulted in a promising ebola vaccine going unused –…
One disturbing part of modern life, is that no one will escape this Earth untouched by cancer in their life somewhere. It’s a toxic environment we’ve created for ourselves, and…
http://www.ctvnews.ca/ Stephen Harper has made an initial six month commitment to the war in Iraq. If anyone thinks the war will be over in six months, Jeffrey Simpson writes, he
MP Dean Del Mastro earned his reputation as a pit bull when serving as Prime Minister Harper’s parliamentary secretary. If the Prime Minister’s Office officialdom declared black was white that…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, November 3, 2014: Police Targeted Media With No-Fly Zone Over Ferguson, Tapes Show CBC fired Jian Ghomeshi…
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Have broader public sector workers received larger than average wage settlements than private sector workers? Have broader public sector settlements exceeded inflation? The Ontario Ministry of Labour has just released…
Renewable resources are good for the environment, good for remote areas, and don’t need expensive infrastructure. All of these benefits of renewable power generation have led poorer countries to embrace…
Well now we really are at war. Canadian warplanes have dropped their first bombs on Iraq.And in his command bunker or closet, Stephen Harper has been tweeting or retweeting up…
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then they… steal your business model? Solar energy is booming: More than half a million US homes…
It's been more than twelve years since he was horribly wounded in a firefight in Afghanistan. Then jailed and tortured in that hellhole called Guantanamo, even though he was a…
Ross McKitrick and Tom Adams have authored What Goes Up…Ontario’s Soaring Electricity Prices and How to Get Them Down for The Fraser Institute. It purports to be an analysis of…
