Dave Cooper, Command Master Chief SEAL (Retired) for the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), has authored a threat assessment concluding TransCanada‘s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is potentially at-risk…
Kinder Morgan Canada President Ian Anderson at a Vancouver Board of Trade talk (photo: Kinder Morgan) Read this June 3 story from The Financial Post, detailing how Kinder Morgan’s plans…
Canada’s privacy deficit continues to grow. Do you think this is a good use of your tax dollars? Article by David Pugliese for The Ottawa Citizen The federal government is…
The cheapening of political discourse has hit a new low today courtesy of the Conservative Party’s print media wing, the Toronto Sun. How exactly are we to interpret this distasteful…
The non-profit organization Law School Admission Council (LSAC) based in the United States was penalized $7.7 million USD to compensate over 6000 students from the past 5 years for application…
After killing three policemen and wounding two, a gunman escaped into heavy woods that press into Moncton, often almost into the downtown area. And those woods are connected to the…
Family quarrels can be nasty affairs, and the seven-year tiff between Fatah and Hamas has been no exception. In the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections, Hamas won a decisive majority in…
A new U.S. proposal to dramatically reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants could result in more thermal coal being shipped to Asia through existing and planned port facilities…
A new U.S. proposal to dramatically reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants could result in more thermal coal being shipped to Asia through existing and planned port facilities…
Just before advanced polls opened, Kathleen Wynne railed against Andrea Horwath’s “unprincipled stance” by not ruling out supporting the Tories in a minority government. It is shocking that the party…
But I bravely kept up my reports from the front, and CBC noticed. Remember: it’s all a lot of fun and games – until you remember this started the same…
… in campaign literature, a permit to hold a presser on a subway car… meh. Hudak and the Cons are above that, it seems. A Durham Region woman is upset…
We are heading out West for a week to visit our kids, both of whom are economic refugees from Ontario. Blogging will likely be sporadic for the next seven days,…
Your news links for today: PRESS RELEASE: Internet’s largest sites join activists to Reset the Net: WordPress, Twitter, Tumblr, Dropbox, Yahoo, Mozilla, Google, Cloudflare, Sendgrid all join campaign to block…
Originally posted on The China Girls: It was a black film canister, rattling around the bottom of an old Naturalizer shoebox labeled “photos.” I opened it, wondering if it was…
After more than a decade of corporate tax cuts, Canada has the lowest effective corporate tax rate of ALL major economies. The Chretian-Martin Liberals and Harper Conservatives cut corporate taxes…
The following is a guest post by Brendan Haley: Jim Stanford and I have written an assessment of the Ontario PC’s energy policy for Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives entitled…
Here, on how Justin Trudeau seems to have taken up the cause of unaccountable executive power even from his third-party place in the House of Commons. For further reading…– For…
Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution. Sophocles Pledges are nothing new for politicians. Some are broad in scope, like FDR’s pledge to…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Emmett Macfarlane and Justin Ling both weigh in on the Cons’ newly-unveiled prostitution legislation – which seems downright calculated to exacerbate the…
