Monday, July 20, 2015 The eighteen legal challenges to the federal government’s approval of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipelines and tankers project are scheduled to be heard together in Vancouver this…
It has just come out that our civil servants have been told to provide fodder to the Harper government’s wish to make terrorism a big issue in Canada. An issue…
About seven years ago I invested in a good, mid-grade gas range. In addition to the usual burner dials or knobs, it came with a digital control panel where you…
Flickr grabs whatever image I save and uploads it. Here is my Deep Dreamer image album at Flickr. I suspect I will periodically add whatever nightmares this Deep Dreamer app…
If all else fails… Block votes. Buy votes. Scare up votes.
Less than 90 days until #elxn42… At the time this post is published, it is: 87 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes. 😉 Feel free to count the remaining days,…
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. On July 15, a state-of-the-art new pipeline near Fort McMurray, Alberta, ruptured, spilling five million litres of bitumen, sand and waste water…
It’s a teeny-tiny backyard, but this year we added six bird feeders, some native plants, a composter, a bird bath and a mister. Now we’ve got a bunch of regulars…
You won’t recognize Canada when I’m done with it Filed under: art Tagged: caricature, deepdreamer, Harper, nightmare, politician
It seems so long ago when it was conventional wisdom that no party in contention for government in Canada would dare talk about cooperating to get things done, no matter…
China seems poised to breed itself out of a looming demographic problem. The most populous nation on Earth may scrap its old “one child” rule in favour of a “two…
Media accounts have given the impression that Greece is the locus of the malaise endangering European unity and the E.U. However fiscal woes extend the breadth of the EU Mediterranean,…
Here, taking a look at the voter pools the NDP will be looking to win over in order to come out ahead in if this fall’s federal election turns into…
This is the full transcript of my podcast interview with John Milios; it appeared earlier this week in Jacobin. John is a prominent figure within Syriza; he was the party’s…
This is the full transcript of my podcast interview with John Milios; it appeared earlier this week in Jacobin. John is a prominent figure within Syriza; he was the party’s…
Let me admit with complete honesty that the Conservative Party certainly didn’t turn out quite like I thought it would. I am as far from Conservative as one can be…
It’s weird, the stuff I think about. But, then again, politics is weirder. 1. Trudeau's hair: in ads. 2. Harper's hair: subject of news stories. 3. Mulcair hair: on his…
Richard Benyon, a Tory MP and former environment minister under David Cameron, writes that Tony Abbott is no Conservative. By Mr. Benyon’s standards, neither is Steve Harper. Mr. Benyon wrote…
Finance Minister Joe Oliver • Photo by Harvey K The evidence is mounting that Canada’s economy may already be in an outright recession. Recent data on investment, exports, building permits…
Her candidacy has enraged Liberals across the country – including veteran, elected Liberals. The Conservatives were delighted – genuinely and truly delighted – that Trudeau took her after they’d dumped…
