FCC Chair Tom Wheeler has just revealed key details about upcoming rules to stop Big Telecom’s Internet slow lane plan. Decision-makers are on the right path but we know telecom…
Should you ask Rick Mercer if he thinks the Harper regime is treating our vets fairly, he will give you this earful: Recommend this Post
Peace Valley ranchers Ken and Arlene Boon are plaintiffs in several Site C Dam challenges (Damien Gillis) A federal court judge has denied BC Hydro’s motion to rush a legal…
A recent editorial in USA Today is getting a good bit of coverage in the Israeli press. It suggests that no good lies in store for either country in Benjamin…
Greece is deeply in debt to international banks. The human suffering in that country has been profound – and the malnutrition deadly. But the banks refuse to give easier terms…
Think of it as the new equivalent of the East German-West German border. It was across that border that NATO (i.e. US) and Warsaw Pact (i.e. Soviet) forces glared at…
To celebrate Storytelling Month, I’m going to tell you at least one story per week in February. These are all true stories. Every day at noon, the bells in the…
How to characterize the mainstream media reaction to the unfolding debt negotiations between Greece and Europe (not the financial press mind you, which knows what it’s about though sides largely…
A stranded asset is any asset that gets hit by “unanticipated or premature write-downs, devaluations or conversion to liabilities.” These days the term is most commonly applied to high-cost, high-carbon…
Premier Brad Wall continues to hold firm to the base ideology of a ‘businesses over persons’ ideologue and says he may invoke the Canadian Constitution’s ‘notwithstanding clause’ to suppress a…
It’s the largest sovereign wealth fund on the planet; Norway’s pride and Canada’s shame; and it’s divesting, getting out of coal, bitumen, concrete and gold mining. If Steve Harper and…
In recent years, we have had the fun of writing about the Bobbsey twins of the Harper cabinet. Specifically, they have been Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Employment Minister…
Vlad Putin has given NATO – well, nothing less than a reason to exist a little longer. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO was a headless chicken, running…
Canada’s had its share of lone wolf terrorism. In fact, most of the worst incidents have been the work of lone wolf terrorists. They’re loners, often unhinged and looking for…
At what point, exactly, do you finally admit you were tragically, fundamentally, historically wrong? (Reuters) – Islamic State militants are selling abducted Iraqi children at markets as sex slaves, and…
H/t The Toronto Star Yesterday’s post dealt with the profound reluctance of Messieurs Trudeau and Mulcair to oppose Harper’s latest incursion into our civil rights, Bill C-51, lest they be…
Here, on why we can’t expect our federal political parties to answer some of our most important questions without some significant public pressure – and how we can build that…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Joe Gunn reminds us that ignoring the issue of poverty won’t make it go away. And Sara Mojtehedzadeh reports on a national…
Your news links for today: Canada’s Patriot Act fan-fiction – Ottawa Citizen Weak-kneed opposition lets Conservative terror bill sail through – Toronto Star Liberals to support Conservative anti-terror bill, will…
In a recent CBC blog post, Louis-Philippe Rochon assesses the current state of the Canadian economy. The link to the blog post is here. Follow him on Twitter @Lprochon.
