Harper: Creating a Canada at cross purposes.
What Prime Minister Stephen Harper has never understood is that Canada’s diversity is its strength. It makes us strong. It also makes our country hard to govern. We do not…
2015
Stephen Harper and the Refugee Trap That Could Destroy Him
They buried little Alan Kurdi, next to his brother and his mother yesterday, in the shattered Syrian town of Kobani. Just a week ago he was apparently jumping up and…
The Green’s Slogan In This Election — “We Are Not Splitting the Vote, We Are Growing The Vote” Challenged.
One of the unitended benefits of this prolonged election is that it gives increased opportunities to scrutinize the leaders, their parties and the candidates. Today the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP…
Enforcement of foreign judgments
Chevron Corp. v. Yaiguaje 2015 SCC 42 holds, perhaps surprisingly: I agree with the Ontario Court of Appeal and the motion judge that the approach favoured by Chevron is sound…
Election 2015: The Shift to the Liberal Party starts
The Second King of Austerity? With the dog days of summer ending, and only 6 or so weeks left in the interminable campaign, one of the most interesting sites to…
Musical interlude
Basement Jaxx feat. ETML – Never Say Never
Tsartlip First Nation blasts Steelhead LNG over proposed Saanich project
Tsartlip Chief Don Tom opposing another unwanted project – construction of a luxury home on burial grounds The Tsartlip First Nation on southern Vancouver Island is weighing in on a…
Ahead of Greek election, SYRIZA’s ‘lost generation’ deserts Tsipras | Comment | ekathimerini.com
So divided has SYRIZA’s youth wing become over the direction of Greece’s leftist party, that when its council planned to convene at the end of August, the meeting was abandoned.…
The Cowardly Party of Canada.
In the past decade, this Canada, the one that we have slid into- is a lot crueller, and a lot more mean spirited. What would happen to cause a country…
Sept. 4: A long one. Sorry.
It is now 2:15, and my breakfast copy of the newspaper has still not arrived. I am told it may come at 3 p.m. It will not be delivered to…
Where Have The Real Heroes Gone?
Heroes, it sometimes seems, have been relegated to legend and myth. There are none left, none of the sort I used to associate with the name. Not in the media,…
If the refugees from Syria were from a war-torn UK or European country Canada would open her arms to them.
Rafe Mair In 1914, the same year the Komagata Maru was expelled from Vancouver, my seven-year-old father, his two siblings, mother, father and two grandparents arrived in Vancouver by steamer…
Tsartlip First Nation responds to Malahat LNG proposal
Media Release Tsartlip First Nation responds to Malahat LNG proposal Tsartlip Chief Don Tom In response to the August 20, 2015 announcement made by Steelhead LNG and Malahat First Nation…
We’re challenging a crucial CRTC decision on behalf of Canadians
Last night, OpenMedia filed detailed and significant comments in support of a crucial challenge that will determine whether Canadians get access to new, independent wireless providers like Ting. If the…
About that Scientific Consensus
For years it’s been claimed that there’s a 97% consensus among climate scientists that anthropogenic or man-made global warming is occurring. The consensus holds that the resulting climate change is…