by Arturo Puente – On 27 September Catalonia is holding elections that will be pivotal in determining whether a territory in which 7.5 million people live will remain part of…
A top Pentagon official has shot down Stephen Harper’s baseless warning that the country’s aerospace sector lose billions if Canada ditches its planned multibillion dollar F-35 fighter jet purchase. The…
By Hugo Coelho for the New Statesman – Antonia Costa’s socialists face an unpalatable choice: grand coalition with the right, or cohabitation with die-hard communists on the left. Source: In…
I don't know where Stephen Harper gets his candidates from, but it must be a dark and smelly place.You'd think the guy with the coffee cup and the YouTube pervert…
“In the name of God, go!” Twice, in British history, have words been uttered to a leader that his time is up: once, in Cromwell’s time, and again, in 1940:…
A question we’ve been asked often: What exactly can the Harper government commit to in the TPP negotiations during a federal election campaign? Article by BJ Siekierski and Kelsey Johnson…
… is, I hope, indigestible for the rest of us. At Sunday’s Calgary-Signal Hill all-candidates debate, Conservative candidate Ron Liepert responded to criticisms of the Conservatives’ controversial Bill C-51 by…
John Scherber has lived in San Miguel de Allende since 2007. He has written 17 fiction books, and this is his third non-fiction. This book is a series of interviews…
Well, the Irving press DID cover Mulcair’s speech on the boardwalk yesterday morning – and a very chilly morning it was. For some reason, though, the photo of it was…
Don Maroc’s post on Harper’s thinly veiled ‘Old Stock Canadians’ was welcomed by many Cowichan Conversation Readers. He was certainly not the only one to hear the ‘Dog Whistle’ messaging…
The influential Associated Press style book is rewriting the rules for writing about climate change deniers. Among other things they’re no longer to be called “skeptics” because that demeans real…
There are major food security threats building around the world and yet there’s very little public discourse over what it is, what it means, what we can do about it…
Lelu Island and Flora Bank (foreground) – site of controversial proposed LNG plant (Skeena Watershed Conservation Soc.) Read this September 18 Vancouver Sun story on a claim by the Lax…
Liberals have been screwing Calgary for a long time. When one hears this, one’s thoughts immediately turn to Trudeau senior and his National Energy Program. But it started long before…
Vancouver Park Board News Release September 23, 2015 Vancouver Park Board Chair John Coupar and all Commissioners are very pleased to share good news related to the construction of the…
The end of the Harper era Tom Mulcair has firmly rejected any chance that the NDP would support Stephen Harper’s government in any confidence votes after the October 19 election:…
One of the joys of returning to the city I moved away from over a decade ago has been reconnecting with some very lovely people in what promises to be…
For Immediate Release Massive B.C. Privacy Breach underlines risks of government using C-51 to collect and store our private info September 23, 2015: A massive data breach in British Columbia…
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. The federal leaders’ debate on the economy focused on important issues — jobs, deficits, infrastructure spending, pipelines, climate change — but no…
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. The federal leaders’ debate on the economy focused on important issues — jobs, deficits, infrastructure spending, pipelines, climate change — but no…
