Here’s One Way to Fund Badly Needed Infrastructure Projects
It’s the Colorado way – weed. Since legalizing the production, sale and recreational use of marijuana the state has been raking in a tidy sum in new excise taxes. Colorado’s…
It’s the Colorado way – weed. Since legalizing the production, sale and recreational use of marijuana the state has been raking in a tidy sum in new excise taxes. Colorado’s…
Happy Pi Day – 3.1415.. 3 (March). 14 (today).. 15 (this year). It ain’t gonna happen again, so enjoy!
He didn’t like Blaney’s response quite so much. Read that bit here.
C’mon, it’s the Washington Post, a relatively (by American standards) prominent and credible newspaper that has gone a fair distance in recent years in purging its weirder instincts. Yet that…
Toronto! Wow! Remember to tweet your images of today’s rallies at #RejectFear and #StopC51 – we’ll pick them up and share them on. We have rallies in all 10 provinces…
Stephen Harper will not be pleased. The Carnegie Endowment is fingering his cherished Tar Sands. Not all oil is created equal. Sweet crude, of the Saudi sort, comes out of…
And they’re the colours of a serial liar. Methinks he’s over his head as minister of defence but maybe he’s just practising for the job he really wants. We’ve been…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger It’s a rainy West Coast Saturday morning, mild and quite beautiful but the direction that PM Harper is taking is chilling, surreal, shocking. Clearly our Prime Minister…
Recently, I wrote about friends who aren’t sure how to support a caregiver in distress. I talked about how difficult it is for caregivers themselves to know how anyone could…
A story in this week’s Connection titled “Private talk with CAO leads to Collingwood integrity commissioner complaint” sparked the following comment. No, this is not about what strikes me as…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – For those looking for information about today’s day of action against C-51, Leadnow and Rabble both have details. – Meanwhile, CBC reports that…
The snow is finally melting on the waterfront. If I close my eyes and feel the warm sun on my face, I can almost dream that Spring is here at…
http://expertbeacon.com/ Neo-Liberals have been preaching the same message for over thirty years: Debt — all debt — is bad. And they have relied on a well worn analogy. Public debt,…
I would feel much more hopeful about October’s election if I believed this kind of critical thinking were common among our fellow citizens: Re: Tory rhetoric defies belief, Editorial March…
It seems that the foreign-owned big breweries took a pass on purchasing tables at the Liberal Party’s major fund-raiser this year. Of course, they tell us that it is not…
Check out this exposeé done by CBC’s Marketplace. Turns out the show’s producers “invented” a natural children’s remedy claiming to help bring down fevers. They submitted an application to have…
Well don't say I didn't warn you eh? Two years ago I wrote a post saying that I didn't think it was a good idea that Stephen Harper should appoint…
As many as 83,000 people are expected to take to the streets of Canada today to protest Bill C-51, Stephen Harper’s proposed “secret police” legislation. The post Tens of thousands…
Congrats to Burnaby MP Kennedy Stewart on getting enough support to make his dream of e-peitions in Parliament a reality. After the next election, Canadians will be able to submit…
A Kinder Morgan talking point promoted by the President of the BC Legislature Press Gallery sounds great – until you give it a moment of thought (and a fact check).Brett…