Crisis situations are shaking two Canadian communities to their very core – the terrifying wildfires that destroyed Fort McMurray, and the epidemic of attempted youth suicides on the Attawapiskat First…
Crisis situations are shaking two Canadian communities to their very core – the terrifying wildfires that destroyed Fort McMurray, and the epidemic of attempted youth suicides on the Attawapiskat First…
My hat is off to Liberal MP Rob Oliphant who has announced he won't support the Trudeau government's watered down bill on medically assisted death.Oliphant, who chaired the committee that…
Liberal ministers Dominic Leblanc and Maryam Monsef at presser today. The Trudeau Liberals have fulfilled an election promise by today launching a special parliamentary committee to recommend a new electoral…
Liberal ministers Dominic Leblanc and Maryam Monsef at presser today.The Trudeau Liberals have fulfilled an election promise by today launching a special parliamentary committee to recommend a new electoral system…
Liberal ministers Dominic Leblanc and Maryam Monsef at presser today.The Trudeau Liberals have fulfilled an election promise by today launching a special parliamentary committee to recommend a new electoral system…
Don't worry, you don't stand much chance of being Mulroneyed in your lifetime.No, being Mulroneyed is a privilege bestowed only on prominent individuals of some considerable wealth or prestige or…
The province of British Columbia and Enbridge Northern Gateway are being ordered to pay $230,000 in court costs to both the Gitga’at First Nation and Coastal First Nations after a…
I've just returned from a visit to Montreal. There, I saw a copy of The Gazette. It was always a stodgy paper with a heavy bias - though the bias…
Until now anyone looking to avoid a shitstorm was advised not to link the Fort McMurray fire to climate change. Given the whole Fort Mac/Tar Sands/bitumen/dilbit/pipeline/supertanker angle it wasn't polite…
They're the sort of gaffes any politician, any head of state dreads.First up. British prime minister, David Cameron, regales Queen Elizabeth about his upcoming anti-corruption summit.And then it was Her…
In a Facebook post today, Robert Reich offers some great advice to Bernie Sanders' supporters:A Hillary Clinton supporter writes: “By continuing your support of Bernie now that his odds of…
From the Book of Unpardonable Footwear: And so it was that Amos, the Most Holy Prophet of in the Reign of Uzziah, said unto the Chosen: “A time comes when…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Caroline Plante reports on Quebec's scourge of medical extra-billing and user fees (as identified by its own Auditor General). And Aaron Derfel notes that…
How very odd. There are supposedly only two standards. Balance of probabilities and beyond reasonable doubt. But not for police it seems. Jacobs v. Ottawa (Police Service), 2016 ONCA 345:12]…
By Megan Devlin for J-Source, the Canadian Journalism Project. Eric Plummer, editor of the Alberni Valley Times, remembers the day last September when two representatives from Black Press told him…
Satire inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wherry-time-allocation-1.3575754
Satire inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wherry-time-allocation-1.3575754
Satire inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wherry-time-allocation-1.3575754
Rachel Maddow with the results of a new poll by PPP
