Facts: I don’t hate Vision Vancouver. I’m indifferent to the overall career of Gregor Robertson. I actually like Andrea Reimer, from what I know of her. (Confession: I really like
Nice catch by Ruth Graham (@publicroad) and Warren Throckmorton (Patheos). A guy in Australia named Lyall Mercer wrote a pr mentioning his firm which was put up on Christian News…
Our digital divide is as wide as ever. Only 62% of low-income households have Internet access. Article by Sunny Freeman for Huffington Post Canada. Canada is one of the most…
Hungry for change: Tunisian bread riots led to a government overthrow in 2011 Read this March 18 National Post story on a new NASA-funded study that predicts the utter collapse…
Two Colorado legislators announced they are introducing a ballot initiative aimed at punishing cities and towns that vote to ban fracking within their borders. Rep. Frank McNulty of Highlands Ranch…
It’s been almost two years since we stumbled upon a plan by a private for-profit company to open a series of clinics that would pay Canadian donors for plasma. The…
I don’t want to chortle; I really don’t. Chortling bespeaks a certain pettiness and vindictiveness that I would like, in my more high-mined moments, to think I am above. But…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger If there was ever time for labour to stand and fight, it is now. BC has endured over a decade of abuse from the ideologically obedient pro…
I continue to be profoundly moved by the wisdom of the classical authors. It’s often hard to accept that some of them were writing two or more millennia ago: many…
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REPEAT AFTER ME: The composition of the Supreme Court of Canada is constitutionally protected, and the Harper government™ attempt to change the Supreme Court of Canada Act through an omnibus…
The Toronto Star just published an article I wrote in response to claims made by the Fraser Institute and the Toronto Sun that Ontario has a runaway debt problem worse…
Oh, are you looking at me again? As spontaneous as this drawing seems, it took four days. I have wanted to draw the cats more from life, but they generally…
HALIFAX – Nova Scotia granted conditional approval Friday to a proposed liquefied natural gas plant in Goldboro, clearing another hurdle for the terminal that’s slated to be operational in six…
0 and 4 so far for Stephen Harper. First, he lost the InSite decision, which now allows safe injection sites. Then he lost the prostitution decision, which all but legalizes…
As cell phone customers reel from yet another Big Telecom price hike, it seems like our wireless market is moving backwards not forwards. Telecom expert and OpenMedia community member Ben…
Premier Marois The first debate in this unexpectedly interesting provincial election has yet again proved that the best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry. The Premier and…
R. v. Wilson, 2014 ONCA 212 holds not wearing a seatbelt is a strict liability offence: Holding s. 106(2) to be an offence of strict liability comports with the wisdom…
For my day job, I wrote a thing about underemployment in Canada. I thought that it might be useful to post my method here so that other interested parties could…
Investing in wind, and solar power is not the main cause of rising costs of electrical bills in Ontario, as many in the province tend to believe. According to a…
