You'd think Stephen Harper would have been cheered by his two by-election victories in Ontario and Alberta.But he wasn't. In the Commons yesterday he was tense and irritable.And with good…
We’ve got a provincial government in Newfoundland and Labrador that has been budgeting for years to spend more than it brought in. Way back in the beginning, way before the…
Personal relationships enrich us, work makes us feel useful, and goals give us purpose via Lecture 1 – Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship | Ideas with Paul Kennedy | CBC…
The Montreal Canadiens in 1912-13. Now the highest-taxed hockey players on the continent, they’re still the best and likely to stay that way. Below: Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions President…
Available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration If you are in Minneapolis, after a hard day’s night, the place to go for a morning pick-me-up is…
She's the latest victim of the Con regime's war on Canadian veterans. A Royal Canadian Legion chaplain who lost her position for having committed the ultimate crime in Stephen Harper's…
Crashing cats.
The U.S. Senate failed to get the necessary 60 votes to approve the northern leg of TransCanada‘s Keystone XL pipeline, but incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) already promised…
Richard Nixon laid back Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace, after his Watergate tapes had shown the public just what kind of a man he was. Despite his claim that I…
Quote: “Craig Scott, a New Democrat MP and former law professor, said to the Liberals that what he was told happened to one of his female colleagues could be defined…
The Conservative government’s omnibus budget Bill C-43 seeks to deny refugee claimants access to health care and social assistance, says the Council of Canadians. The post With omnibus Bill C-43,…
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Photo by Edward Valachovic Introduction On November 9, 2014, Germany and its Western Allies, celebrated the ‘Fall of the Berlin Wall’ and the subsequent ‘reunification’ of the ‘two Germanys’. Prime…
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (right) failed to get the Keystone XL passed Read this Nov. 18 Reuters story on the Keystone XL bill’s narrow defeat by the US…
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan continues his tough stand against Kinder Morgan (Photo: Vimeo) Read this Nov. 18 story from The Vancouver Sun on newly re-elected Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan’s vow…
Drawing by W.S. Gilbert (d. 1911) On November 13, 2008, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) unjustly arrested Diab. In connection with a 1980 Paris synagogue bombing. A crime he had…
Oil giant Shell was warned by its own staff that the Trans Niger Pipeline had a “risk and likelihood of rupture” years before two spills in 2008 spewed as much…
We're pretty sure that what this OPP officer and government Senator want to do is a terrible, terrible idea Article by Michael Geist If you could change or enact one…
… apparently are army chaplains who speak truth to power. Although technically she wasn’t fired, (she offered her resignation, which was accepted), Rev. Sandra Tankard incurred the displeasure of both…
Do you drink a glass of wine with dinner every night? That puts you in the top 30 percent of American adults in terms of per-capita alcohol consumption. If you…
