It has been surreal watching the US media pandering to Donald Trump and lionizing Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders has been almost entirely ignored, especially by Fox and CNN…
PHOTOS: Kevin Davediuk, whose appointment as a senior public sector negotiator by the Alberta Government was announced on March 9. (Screenshot of Global News broadcast.) Below: Recently retired Canadian ambassador…
The second by-election since Alberta’s May 2015 election will be held on March 22, 2016 in the northeast Calgary constituency of Calgary-Greenway. With the re-election of Manmeet Bhullar, this constituency…
« Comité d’accueil » montréalais pour Marine Le Pen LUNDI 21 MARS, 20 h Montréal Marriott Château Champlain Hôtel 1050 de la Gauchetière Ouest (près Peel et Place du Canada)…
Many years back, I used to blog about a phenomenon called fascist shift. I borrowed the term from Naomi Wolf's essential The End of America, but the concept was something…
Comrades in Quebec City organized with just a few days’ notice to successfully disrupt a press conference held by Marine Le Pen — leader of the far right anti-immigrant French…
Last Thursday, Governor General David Johnston presented Louise Arbour with yet another award, the UNA-Canada Pearson Peace Medal, which honours outstanding Canadian achievements in the field of international service and…
Last Thursday, Governor General David Johnston presented Louise Arbour with yet another award, the UNA-Canada Pearson Peace Medal, which honours outstanding Canadian achievements in the field of international service and…
Last Thursday, Governor General David Johnston presented Louise Arbour with yet another award, the UNA-Canada Pearson Peace Medal, which honours outstanding Canadian achievements in the field of international service and…
Donald Trump’s scary lead in the Republican nominee race led Ms Soapbox to wonder whether The Donald’s promise to Make America Great Again! with a mishmash of protectionist, racist ideas…
American politics comes in flavours - Republican, Left of Republican, and Progressive. Republican also comes in two styles - crazy (without sprinkles) and bat shit crazy (extra sprinkles). The BSC…
With Saskatchewan's main political parties having released their election platforms, now is the time when I'd planned to put together platform reviews to better examine voters' options.But a funny thing…
Hot on the heels of our last story detailing Canadians United 4 Canada and their ties to Canadian neo-Nazis, we see have a related update further cementing the group in…
Can there be a more difficult, dangerous political problem to a petro-state than climate change? Is it even possible to say "no"? What kind of leader would it take to…
Illustration by LargeMarge No one defending their land and territory in Honduras is safe. That was the message that rang loud and clear after Berta Cáceres was murdered in her…
Image by Jan Smith In order to have a 50% chance of not exceeding the newly agreed (COP21) goal of a global 1.5oC temperature increase, humanity can only emit a…
Don Maroc Soon after being elected Chief of the Malahat Nation on November 2, 2015, Caroline Harry told the Salish Sea Sentinel, “The whole LNG thing… we were backed into…
The politics of persuasion play a bigger role in the anti-GMO movement than science. Like so many anti-science movements before them – the anti-gluten fad, the anti-vaccination idiocies, creationism, the…
Assorted content for your Sunday reading.- Peter Moskowitz highlights why we shouldn't be counting on crowdfunding or other private sources to address social needs. And Lana Payne calls out the…
There it is. February, 2016 is in the books as the warmest month in recorded history. As predicted earlier, 2016 is expected to be the warmest year in recorded history,…
