The People’s Manifesto
Our society exists to provide the means and opportunity for each of us to fulfill our maximum potential and reach our highest aspirations, whatever we perceive them to be, while…
Our society exists to provide the means and opportunity for each of us to fulfill our maximum potential and reach our highest aspirations, whatever we perceive them to be, while…
Today is the fortieth anniversary of the death in of Red Army Faction founding member Ulrike Meinhof. On May 9, 1976, Mother’s Day that year, Ulrike was found hanged in…
It’s been a month of mostly good news for Enbridge and Kinder Morgan, the two companies pushing to build major pipeline projects from Alberta’s oilsands to British Columbia’s coast.Tags: Enbridge…
Peggy Noonan has penned the obituary of the GOP. The Grand Old Party is over. To pundit Noonan, the Republican Party needs to prepare for something akin to the Confederacy…
In 2014, Toledo experienced a water crisis that caused the city to issue a “do not use” warning for more than 500,000 residents. They had to rely on bottled water;…
And that’s why Justin Trudeau has rightly said he won’t be heading out to Fort Mac just yet. In my own (personal) experience, politicians need to be very, very careful…
I don't mean to sound Cromwellian but I'm sure feeling the vibe.Isn't it time we expected our elected representatives to uphold the integrity of the process of government? Isn't it…
Join us for a night of discussion live on Blab on Wednesday May 11, 2016 at 9:00 pm.A photo posted by @wiselaw on May 9, 2016 at 7:54am PDTDownload Blab…
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Carolyn Ferns writes that a long-awaited child care program would represent the best possible Mother's Day gift for Canadian families.- Danyaal Raza and Ritika…
Or at least I suspect we will feel like the one on the left in the following video, once the Panama papers releases its database of tax cheats and avoiders…
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Beer is delicious and has been a part of healthy living for years, but why is it good for us? Beer can provide mental benefits because it helps people relax…
Informed speculation, as it were, is as follows: The board has taken over, and Godfrey is basically out. I’m told his role is now purely symbolic, and he is not…
Front page of yesterday’s Times. I am a devoted reader of the New York Times. It was via the Times, in fact, that I first learned of the Carville-Clinton war…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Medically assisted suicide bill is 'clearly unconstitutional,' lawyer says - Toronto StarLawyer who won Carter case in High Court says…
Our parliamentarians need help with Bill C-14, the doctor assisted death bill. They should read On Death and Dying a book published in 1969. It was written by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross…
Dan Leger writes in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald that a President Trump would be a gift to the enemies of the United States:But if your goal is to undermine American democracy,…
I've finally decided that I'm going to have to settle back comfortably in my hammock, take a deep breath, remind myself it's almost summer, and start enjoying the Donald Trump…
Memorial University history professor Robert Sweeny discovered something recent. he discovered that the finance minister's budget speech and the Estimates contained two different sets of numbers.Hot on the trail of…
All over the world today some of its richest people are quivering in their boots.Because for over a month hundreds of journalists have been digging through the so-called Panama Papers,…