APTN demonstrates how low a priority First Nations relations are with the Harper government at the moment: The Franklin expedition ship found by researchers on the Arctic seabed has a…
ANALYSIS American shakedown: Police won’t charge you, but they’ll grab your money U.S. police are operating a co-ordinated scheme to seize as much of the public’s cash as they can…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – The Broadbent Institute studies wealth inequality in Canada, and finds not only that the vast majority of Canada’s capital resources remain concentrated…
Too soon? Too cold? Sorry. When it was announced yesterday that Mayor Rob Ford’s doctors discovered he has developed a tumour I was surprised, sort of (not really). For a…
A guest blog post from Mario Seccareccia and Louis-Philippe Rochon. After learning that the Canada Revenue Agency is auditing the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on the grounds that it…
Yes, it’s me. In The Trial Continues, the alt band Chris Benner and I had in Ottawa. I plead that it was the Eighties.
Your news links for today: An Open Internet Is Essential to a Free Internet: Why Net Neutrality Should Matter To Everyone – EFF Google: Support Net Neutrality! (Just Ignore That…
This morning the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation released a new report about “motivational interviewing” for welfare recipients. The link to the full report is here, and the link to…
Here, on how the corporate sector is taking advantage of Brad Wall, Michael Fougere and their respective administrations at the expense of citizens who both fund and rely on public…
Check out this short video from The Peace Valley Environment association and The Common Sense Canadian’s Damien Gillis on the extraordinary agricultural land that would be flooded by the proposed…
Rob Ford – who, by the by, was the only mayoralty candidate to contact me during my recent run-in with the underside of a bus – is facing a huge…
Human rights groups says Israel committed war crimes during Gaza conflict, urges the International Criminal Court to facilitate the “prosecution of serious international crimes by both sides.” The post Israel…
Many years ago a bunch of countries decided to take action to stop damaging the ozone layer in the hopes that it will eventually recover. It’s great to see that…
Windi Earthworm was an institution of the radical anglo left in 1980s Montreal. A crossdressing openly gay street musician who took it upon himself to educate the public about the…
It’s a sweltering 35 degrees as I pull up to a trailer housing the W.A.C. Bennett Dam visitor centre just outside Hudson’s Hope, 100 kilometres west of Fort St. John.…
It was like a proud father announcing triplets. It was the wife, who is nowhere to be seen who did the heavy lifting, but here is the Hair, chest busting…
Yesterday I wrote a post on the perspective that age bestows, my point being that the longer one lives, the greater the potential ability to critically evaluate everything that happens.…
http://americanelephant.com/ The Harper government plans to enter the 2015 election with a hefty surplus. But, Linda McQuaig writes, don’t expect that money to be spent on health care: Medicare, with…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, September 11, 2014: My post @SlawTips today: A Beginner’s Guide to Producing Law Firm Videos – Part…
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/terri-jean-bedford-kicked-out-of-prostitution-bill-hearing-1.2761325
