Missed this because our National Geographic subscription has been transferred to the grandkids, which is probably quite fitting: given the rate of racial and ethnic intermarriage in the US, by…
Apparently April is not only National Poetry Month, but also Caesarean Awareness Month and blog posts (like this one) are popping up all over talking about why people believe in…
Assorted content to end your week. – Linda McQuaig responds to the CCCE’s tax spin by pointing out what’s likely motivating the false attempt to be seen to contribute to…
Today’s focus is on British Columbia’s resource economy. Although I’ll be talking about British Columbia in particular, the same issues come up in various guises across North America wherever the…
(CP) - In a statement released today, Canadian Minister of Democracy Pierre Poilievre said that, while he supports North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s efforts to standardize haircuts (http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-26747649...
(CP) – In a statement released today, Canadian Minister of Democracy Pierre Poilievre said that, while he supports North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s efforts to standardize haircuts (http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-26747649), he had…
(CP) - In a statement released today, Canadian Minister of Democracy Pierre Poilievre said that, while he supports North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s efforts to standardize haircuts (http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-26747649), he had…
(CP) – In a statement released today, Canadian Minister of Democracy Pierre Poilievre said that, while he supports North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s efforts to standardize haircuts, he had already…
Here are the leading legal headlines fromWise Law on Twitter for Friday, April 11, 2014: Indiana must recognize a terminally ill woman’s same-sex marriage: judge Must benefits coverage extend to…
I’m not sure whether last week’s column played a role, but there have been an awful lot of attacks on Saskatchewan’s Crowns since then at a time when the parties…
There’s another YouTube Rob Ford thing out this morning and I hate it: it evinces too much sympathy, or likeability, for Mayor Crackhead. It misses the mark. This video, meanwhile,…
If you are destined to become a saviour of the British royalty, you start young. It was eight-month old Prince George who flew in to wow the colonials in New…
With the Liberals at around 36 points, the Conservatives at roughly 27 and the NDP with 22, voters are in a profoundly different place than they were when the Conservatives…
The oil industry and its well-compensated apologists in Congress like to complain that the Obama administration is stalling oil production on public lands. The problem with that argument: it’s demonstrably…
I am feeling somewhat uninspired this morning, so for now I simply offer two reasonably good missives from Globe and Mail readers on Mr. Harper’s demonstrably destructive impact on our…
This week, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives put out a media release in which they insisted that their taxes were not too low. Linda McQuaig writes: This defensive posture…
The good news: The Liberals surpassed the Conservatives a year and a half ago. This is not a honeymoon period, not a blip of the sort Michael Ignatieff enjoyed after…
Pretty well every Conservative who is anyone in the province turned up on Wednesday night at Danny Breen’s by-election headquarters. Every Conservative, that is, except the fellow who is the…
One ought not to speak ill of the dead, nor inflict more grief on the aggrieved. Still, the instant hagiography surrounding Jim Flaherty will attach some burrs. Through his actions…
One ought not to speak ill of the dead, nor inflict more grief on the aggrieved. Still, the instant hagiography surrounding Jim Flaherty will attach some burrs. Through his actions…
