Is The TPP Dead?
Michael Geist thinks it might be. He writes:First, the TPP may not have sufficient support to take effect, since under the terms of agreement both Japan and the United States…
Michael Geist thinks it might be. He writes:First, the TPP may not have sufficient support to take effect, since under the terms of agreement both Japan and the United States…
A fellow progressive once accused Babel-on-the-Bay of using bumper sticker solutions. What he did not realize is that the era of the bumper sticker is long gone. Maybe he had…
The news about the Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie will affect many people, today. It will likely see them thinking about the connections between their lives and the songs that the…
In my last post I ran a video by John Oliver, where he strongly suggested that Justin Trudeau had apologized enough for elbowgate.And that it was all just a tempest…
If you want to understand the depth of Dwight Ball's political problem, understand that as of Victoria Day, Paul Lane - never the sharpest of political knives in any drawer…
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when
On the night in question, I was at an event in Toronto honouring Senator Murray Sinclair. As it was getting underway, I received a text message from one of the…
PHOTOS: The little Post Office in downtown St. Albert, where your blogger lives, which Canada Post is anxious to close as soon as possible. Below: The U.S. Post Office in…
Paul Roundy, a professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York, discusses El Niño's role in the Alberta wildfire. The post Paul Roundy: Why the effects of…
“If there is something that frightens me about the memories of the Holocaust, it is the knowledge of the awful processes which happened in Europe in general, and in Germany…
The Panama Papers starkly revealed that Britain's Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies have become the venues of choice for the anonymous corporations that facilitate tax evasion, organised crime, and terrorist…
It's a Big Club and you ain't in it.
The big, front-page story in the irving press is that Moncton's mayor wants a solution to the car-booting issue. That's nice, even commendable. But it's scarcely a big story of…
Image from A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara, Seven Stories Press (2013) Like probably many other CD readers, I recall growing up with relatively apolitical children’s books. I remember…
Photo by Senado Federal Less than one quarter of Brazilians think that lawmakers acted with the best interests of the country at heart when approving the coup against Dilma Rousseff.…
Imagine a world where average temperatures are almost 10 degrees Celsius higher than today, an Arctic with temperatures almost 20 degrees warmer and some regions deluged with four times more…
Imagine a world where average temperatures are almost 10 degrees Celsius higher than today, an Arctic with temperatures almost 20 degrees warmer and some regions deluged with four times more…
Stephen Hume: Province’s secrecy puts people’s health at risk STEPHEN HUME More from Stephen Hume Published on: May 20, 2016 | Last Updated: May 20, 2016 3:25 PM …
A shaggy black dog
This is our childhood dog. His name was Scotty. Who knows why. He makes a number of appearances in my sisters little commemorative memoir and biographical book about her life…