Yeah But How Do You Really Feel About Donald Trump?
For years he was senator John McCain's chief aide. Now Mark Salter says Hillary would get his vote over Donald Trump because - because - wait for it - she's…
2016
National Observer Calls Bullshit on Trudeau, Again.
When it comes to climate change and Canada we're awash in talk but marooned when it comes to meaningful action. Cap'n Sunny Ways seems to be focused on blowing smoke…
May 3: The no news for New Brunswick
The Canada&World section never fails to amaze me. One of the big stories is that an RCMP officer had to shoot a bear because it was coming to toward him.…
Arctic Climate Connections – Where is Rube Goldberg Now That We Need Him?
The rapidly warming Arctic region is the perfect proving ground to show how climate change impacts have a synergy that is amplified by human activity, primarily greenhouse gas emissions.A new…
A Tribe Singing For The Future
Earth Guardians are a new group which is poised to take the political music scene by storm. Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is leading the Earth Guardians around the world to take charge…
It’s the Day of Reckoning for Ted Cruz. Stephen Colbert Explains.
Republican weirdo presidential candidate, Ted Cruz, a.k.a. "Lucifer in the flesh," is facing his Waterloo - or he would be if Indiana had a town named Waterloo. Dammit, I just…
When social media becomes an excuse
Talk minus action equals zero, sayeth DOA. It's no revelation, but man: hashtags provide people with the false conviction that they're actually doing something. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 3,…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Tom Parkin writes about the growing divide between the lucky few who are siphoning wealth out of Canada, and the mass of people…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday May 3, 2016. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates.A video posted by @wiselaw on May 3, 2016 at…
Owning A Cottage Is Not Enough
In the wake of the Duffy affair, Errol Mendes writes, the Senate has begun reforming itself:The Senate to which Mr. Duffy returns is, in a multitude of ways, much different…
Au revoir Pierre Karl.
We finally found out the difference between millionaire Pierre Karl Pèladeau and billionaire Donald Trump. As leader of the separatist Parti Quèbècois, Pierre Karl realized he was a square peg…
awful library books and why we remove them from our shelves
A while back, I blogged about weeding, every library's not-so-dirty little not-so-secret. Daniel Gross, writing in The New Yorker, looks at weeding, too - from a library-users' revolt in Berkeley,…
Exclusive: Release of Inspection Reports From TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline Expose Risk of Future Spills
The US government agency responsible for interstate pipelines recorded a catalog of problems with the construction of TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline and the Cushing Extension, a DeSmog investigation has found. Inspectors…
Con Apocalypse: The Con’s Rabid Base is Shrinking
Pity poor Rona Ambrose, it's all going so horribly wrong.The Con leadership race has only attracted two mediocre candidates so far. And so desperate is the situation that some Con…
Province to spend $750K to study feasibility of hole in the ground #nlpoli
At a time when the provincial government does not have any money to spend foolishly, it is hard to fathom why cabinet is taxing books to raise $1.0 million and…
St. Albert Catholic school board has spent more than $367,000 to defend firing of transgender teacher
PHOTOS: Transgender teacher Jan Buterman (Metro Newspapers photo). Below: Duncan Kinney of Progress Alberta, the former Pope Benedict, and David Keohane, Superintendent of Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools. ST. ALBERT,…
How the Corporate Media Is Ruining the US Election
Amy Goodman weighs in on the Corporate Media’s message control and snubbing of Bernie Sanders and his campaign.
In this week’s Hill Times: another brick in the wall
PUNTA NIZUC, MEXICO – A wall. Donald Trump, the bilious billionaire who is edging ever-closer to the Oval Office, wants to build a great big wall between this country and…
Transgender Man and His Colleagues in North Carolina Call for Repeal of HB2
This is an incredible ad. The perfect answer to ignorance is always truth. This is a beautiful work as well as a powerful answer to the bigotry we’ve seen swirling…
Transgender Man and His Colleagues in North Carolina Call for Repeal of HB2
This is an incredible ad. The perfect answer to ignorance is always truth. This is a beautiful work as well as a powerful answer to the bigotry we've seen swirling…