I’ve really been enjoying my Nexus 7 tablet. I dislike that tablets have become the norm, and in a perfect world I’d use a desktop, a netbook, and a tablet.…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Liberal and NDP response to PM Stephen Harper’s far reaching attempt to decimate Canada’s civil rights and privacy laws left a lot to be desired. Justin…
The Supreme Court of Canada weighed in on the side of the terminally ill in a decision that’s bound to have Big C and small c conservatives seething. The Supreme…
Wow. What the heck just happened here? Apparently – the unthinkable. Watching the #Sudbury hashtag on Twitter last night, which was trending nationally after the polls closed at 9 PM…
John Baird has resigned from the Harper cabinet and from his seat in Parliament. It seems no one knew about it much more than 24-hours before the public announcement. The…
If you thought you had heard the last of insanely bellicose Anders Fogh “Foggy” Rasmussen when his term as NATO secretary-general lapsed, you were wrong. He’s back and he’s talking…
As usual, the monthly Labour Force Survey numbers headline seems to tell a different story than the underlying numbers. According to the LFS, Canada added 35,000 jobs in January. A…
Blizzard conditions with gusty winds and visibility frequently near zero in snow and blowing snow are expected or occurring. Blizzard starting early this afternoon in Iqaluit and ending after midnight.…
The political blanket wrapped around the fight against ISIS tends to prevent any reliable assessment of what’s going on in Iraq and Syria. That’s doubly true in Canada where, as…
Assorted content to end your week. – Gregory Beatty reports on Saskatchewan’s options now that it can’t count on high oil prices to prop up the provincial budget. And Dennis…
This guest blog post has been written by Louis-Philippe Rochon. You can follow him on Twitter @Lprochon – Harper’s recent incarnation as an anti-terrorist crusader has caught many Canadians by…
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Two posts I recently wrote were highly critical of both Justin Trudeau and Thomas Mulcair for their apparent embrace, for political purposes, of Bill C-51, the bill that will serve…
When Canada Goose was sold to a U.S. Hedge fund, I stitched this over their logo in protest. Today, I display it to remember Tuff Gong on his 70th birthday.…
Carter v. Canada (Attorney General), 2015 SCC 5 Section 241 (b) of the Criminal Code says that everyone who aids or abets a person in committing suicide commits an indictable…
I’m not the enemy when it comes to vaccines. If they’re such a critical part of every day life, why aren’t they supplied for free to the public and why…
http://www.macleans.ca/ Diplomacy was is full bloom when John Baird announced his retirement this week. That was strange, Michael Harris writes, given Baird’s record as Minister of Foreign Affairs: Take a…
The United States Navy has decided not to put all its eggs in the F-35 basket. The navy has trimmed its order for the 2016-2020 period by full third. It…
