This is amazing: our joint petition against spying Bill C-51 has reached an incredible 200,000 signatures. Thanks to everyone for speaking up and sending the government a clear message that…
Inconvenient comment #1: Inconvenient Comment #2: Former Conservative Finance Minister – the late Jim Flaherty – ruled…
Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal, is at it again. In a New York Times op-ed, Jindal has pledged to protect the ‘religious liberty’ of individuals, businesses and corporations in his state…
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 On April 21, the federal government released its 2015 budget. Weighing in at over 500 pages, it contains a number of measures related to the environment.…
It’s pretty hard to exaggerate our indifference to early-onset impacts of climate change. They’re here, they’re worsening before our eyes and, more often than not, we ignore them. Some call…
Water scarcity and resulting wars will be a key consequence of the climate crisis The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that human-caused climate change is already responsible for 150,000 deaths…
Canadian business leaders and tech entrepreneurs are convinced that Stephen Harper’s Bill C-51 undermines Canada’s business climate and global reputation. The post Bill C-51 undermines Canada’s business climate and global…
Did you hear the news? Pakistan has inked a deal to buy eight modern Chinese submarines. Pakistan, yeah. And the Pakistan navy is looking at developing nuclear warheads for the…
Acknowledging that an important feature in Saskatoon was constructed by the government, then bragging that construction of a future valued feature (a wind turbine) was avoided by the government instead…
Modern, high-tech warfare is putting many nations in an increasingly offensive military posture. The controversial F-35 is a perfect example. Despite what we’re told, the F-35 is not a fighter…
Here’s what the CBC’s polling aggregator has to say: With the Liberals and Conservatives currently neck-and-neck in voting intentions, the tendency for polls to accurately predict the winner six months…
Following up on this morning’s column, let’s note that there’s another area where the Libs are stubbornly sticking to a previous position whose underpinnings have been even more thoroughly destroyed.…
Here, on how the massive shift in public opinion against the Conservatives’ terror bill should remind us that people are more than willing to reconsider their initial position on a…
In a May, 2013 Buckdog post, I told you how the Duffy/Harper mess got started … May 20, 2013:“When Stephen Harper decided to add Pamela Wallin and Mike Duffy to…
Your news links for today: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s New Budget Invests Heavily in the Military and Spies – VICE The curious case of Tom Mulcair: C-51 and the…
Rather than keeping this boy on my chest and face, where he prefers to sleep, we’ve come to an arrangement where he stretches out along my chest, on my arm…
So much for fiscal prudence. So long credibility. Those words, written By Scott Clark and Peter DeVries, succinctly summarize the illusions, misdirection and magical thinking that Joe Oliver’s budget is…
Last week, I turned 60. I took advantage of the occasion to invite friends and family over for, what else?, a dance party! Over my years of caregiving, I have…
Tim Parks* wrote an intriguing essay in the New York Review of Books last week with that title. My first thought on seeing it was to wonder if one can…
