Photo by Kate Gottli For years now, governments, including our own, have been demanding austerity measures, cutting health, education, social and cultural programs – all justifying this hacking by claiming…
Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP government has been big on doing things differently, or so they say, but this week she went back to the tried and true. At a cost…
Over at the web site of the Calgary Homeless Foundation, I’ve written a blog post titled “Using Data to End Homelessness in Calgary.” The link to the English version is…
Choose your drug policy: harm reduction...#CdnPoli #HarmReduction "@VanAlias: #NDP2016 passed this. pic.twitter.com/D6nkKaTAi9"— Susan Gapka (@SusanGapka) April 9, 2016 ...or harm retention.
Sadly, there are far too many half-baked outside arguments being made about the federal NDP's leadership review and how it connects to provincial-level choices. (To be clear, I contrast those…
I cannot imagine the ongoing pain that the family of Alex Wettlaufer is experiencing. Less than a month ago, 21-year-old Alex was killed by police under suspicious and troubling circumstances,…
Canada is certainly a slow-moving country. It takes six years to get the right just to have your day in court. How long it will take to actually get a…
On Friday morning, Memorial University political scientist Amanda Bittner told a CBC Radio audience that the Telegram’s government-compiled list of public servants making more than $100,000 a year served no…
They complained about the way Tom Mulcair and his party marginalized them during the last election, or treated them like children.They complained about the way they were sent out to…
PHOTOS: Thomas Mulcair in Edmonton … shortly before the disappointing federal election on Oct. 19, 2015. Below: Canadian Labour Congress President Hassan Yussuff, former NDP MP and leadership candidate Peggy…
Bruce Springsteen has cancelled his weekend concert in protest of HB2, North Carolina's new anti-LGBT law. The post Bruce Springsteen cancels show to protest North Carolina’s anti-LGBT law HB2 appeared…
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Rafe Mair's 13th book can be classified as an autobiography. It covers his life up to the University of British Columbia Law School. However, after the first 150 pages, the…
Yes, the BC Supreme Court upholding the CVRD’s oft ignored land use bylaw was a win. But what is this? More legal manouvering by SIA/CHH? More costs, distractions and foot…
Assorted content to end your week.- Angella MacEwen discusses how most of what's sold as "free trade" serves mostly to hand power to the corporate sector at the expense of…
The other day I told you how some members of the Con establishment are so desperate they are even thinking of resurrecting Stephen Harper.Bringing him back from the dead, to…
September 2015, I reported that a source told me the Queen of Chilliwack had been sold to its new owners in Fiji for $100,000. BC Ferries refused to comment on…
September 2015, I reported that a source told me the Queen of Chilliwack had been sold to its new owners in Fiji for $100,000. BC Ferries refused to comment on…
A time-lapse scene of clouds sweeping in like waves and water against a mountain coastline. There really is no difference between clouds and water except for density and time. And…
