Congratulations are in order for fellow blogger, Nancy Leblanc, who will be the Ontario Liberal candidate for the riding of Parkdale-High Park in the next provincial election. Her nomination becomes…
Congratulations are in order for fellow blogger, Nancy Leblanc, who will be the Ontario Liberal candidate for the riding of Parkdale-High Park in the next provincial election. Her nomination becomes…
Six hours left! We have over 3.1 million people signed on to help Stop the Secrecy! Will you help us get to 3.2? read more
So, in the wake of Donald Sterling being unceremoniously dumped from any association with the NBA, we have Mark Steyn running to his defence. Even so, it is disturbing to…
This is a guest post by Lee Fang and Nick Surgey, originally published on Republic Report. Before the Heartland Institute became famous for its leading role in climate change denial,…
Christy Clark announces agreement to build an LNG facility at Grassy Point ( BC govt photo) The Clark government’s rosy projections of a $100 Billion “Prosperity Fund” from its proposed…
Here comes the sun
A short post based on a discussion on Twitter; which province(s) have the highest income taxes. First; you really need to add the Federal rates. Federal income taxes are a…
9 hours left to Stop the Secrecy! Let’s keep the pressure on – SHARE and LIKE! Show the person sitting next to you on the bus! Share at the gym…
Paul Krugman wrote an important column on the economy and environmental sustainability titled, Salvation gets cheap. This is based on the IPCC’s recent report that suggests a green technological revolution…
A freight train owned by CSX Corporation has erupted in downtown Lynchburg, Virginia, which sent “flames stories high” into the air, creating a large black cloud. ABC‘s WSET has reported…
We Are the Giant, a powerful portrait of five human rights activists in Syria, Libya, and Bahrain, personalizes the multiple, simultaneous, and in many ways ongoing struggles often monolithically referred…
….The CBC has the story. Most of the world has it, I suspect. But you won’t find it anywhere in the Irving press, not even in that bowl of intellectual…
Looks like some middle-aged man has been busted for exposing his willy to people at my old neighbourhood, near Mooney’s Bay in Ottawa. “As a side note, this quote from…
The Federal Privacy Commissioner has revealed there are 1.2 million breaches of Canadians’ privacy each year. In the vast majority of these cases, telecom providers are handing over private customer…
Deb Matthews promised and delivered – sort of. The Ontario Health Minister had committed earlier this year to revisit compensation for personal support workers. Minimum wage for PSWs had not…
This piece originally appeared in the March-April (2014) issue of Canadian Dimension magazine. Subscribe or buy previous issues HERE. One could be forgiven for thinking that graying Tories were the…
We have just 12 hours to Stop the Secrecy! Please help to Stop the Secrecy around the TPP! Please SHARE this image right now to maximize our impact in these…
…or, at least, an LRT running underground: Andy Byford says that TTC is mindful of changing politics, is doing work on Scarb. transit that could apply to either subway or…
