Look out, folks. Bill O’Reilly is about to talk about global warming again on the O’Reilly Factor. Of course, he’s already reached his conclusion that “Nobody can control the climate…
Below is the recent submission of OCHU to the Standing Committee on Social Policy of the Ontario Legislature:The Ontario Council of Hospital Workers (OCHU/CUPE) represents 30,000 hospital and long-term care…
But he’s back! My favourite crazed evangelical, and I hope yours, Pat Robertson, is once again making ‘newsworthy’ statements. Watch below as this preacher of the preposterous, this evangelical of…
A lot of people realized when Tony Blair jumped aboard the Bush/Cheney bandwagon to conquer Iraq that he was a two-faced weasel. Now, courtesy of Rupert Murdoch, any lingering doubt…
Disgraced, ex-Tory senator Patrick Brazeau has found work apparently almost in the shadow of Parliament Hill. Brazeau is the new day manager at the Bare Fax Gentlemen’s Club. A visitor…
Stephen Harper apparently didn’t get the message that Obama doesn’t want to be pestered about the Keystone XL pipeline. U.S. officials in advance of the North American leaders summit in…
The Canadian Library Association (CLA) has requested the federal government engage in talks concerning the recent closures of and cuts to government libraries, according to a statement released Tuesday. In…
The American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) model bill for disclosure of chemicals injected into the ground during the controversial hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) process is back for a sequel in the…
The recent death of Mavis Gallant reminds me of how deeply seductive Paris is. After Montreal, it is a place I’d like to live. What a pleasure that we have…
CSEC’s supposed watchdog has failed in his assessment of how the ultra-secretive spy agency is spying on law-abiding Canadians. Read what these two experts have to say. Join Steve Anderson…
A frequent contributor of commentary, ThinkingManNeil, responding to my post earlier today, left an insightful and incisive analysis of Andrea Horwath. In order to provide wider readership than is usually…
For centuries it sat astride the major trade route connecting the western world with the east. The result today is a country plagued with tribalism resulting from ethnic division. They’re…
Dr. Peter Ross (photo: Tanya Brown/aquablog.ca) World-renowned ocean pollution scientist Dr. Peter Ross will continue his work through the Vancouver Aquarium, after the federal program he oversaw was shut down…
Working people need to seek out solidarity opportunities. Unions and unionized workers need to reach out to non-unionized workers and seek legislative improvements for all, like improvements to the EI…
Wrap your head around this idea. Volkswagen AG has a labour panel – 20 members, half-management, half-labour. The panel has to approve any plant closures or plant expansions and, right…
The Progressive Economics Forum is pleased to announce Lars Osberg as the Winner of the 2014 Galbraith Prize in Economics. Our selection committee included past winners Mel Watkins, John Loxley…
In yesterday’s paper, Irving Oil graciously told us it was voluntarily upgrading the safety standards of all its rail tankers. Forty-seven people were killed by those rail cars. They were…
The first settled and most heavily populated parts of the United States and Canada are, of course, in the east. That’s why, when a major weather event sweeps everything east…
Your news links for today: CRTC Launches Lopsided Talk TV Consult: Raises Prospect of Net Regulation & Net Neutrality Violation (Michael Geist) Slow as maple syrup: Canada ranks 54th in…
