Questions for BC Liberal by-election candidates
One day after Kelowna Liberal MLA Ben Stewart resigned in 2013, unelected Christy Clark called a by-election so that she could seek election and continue as Premier. Weeks later, Stewart…
2016
Jan. 9: New Brunswick is part of the world Yes, it is.
In a real newspaper, the headline is about the major event of the day. Typically, it's a world story. Today, for example, it might have been about the world war…
Canada’s Back? Define "Back."
I have to admit that, like many Canadian progressives (real progressives, not the watered-down to meaninglessness type popular with so many Liberals) I thought I had misjudged Justin Trudeau during…
What a cruel, mean and ignorant thing for Brad Wall to say
“If you really don’t like the prison food, there’s one way to avoid it, and that’s don’t go to prison."This is what Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall said in response to…
An Awesome Wedding and a Lifetime of Friendship
This past holiday season was particularly wonderful for us on account of Nick's excellent pain management as well as the celebration of love in our family. But the icing on…
The Bigot Cons and the Cowardly Assault On Our Refugees
There couldn't be a more brutish act, or one more disgusting or more cowardly.Than attacking a group of refugees seeking shelter in Canada.Men, women, and children.On their welcome night.Read more…
dogtopia: a dog hotel comes to mississauga (and we give it a great review)
When we travel, we've always had someone stay over in our home with the dogs. In almost 30 years of dogs, we only boarded our dogs once. It was not…
Stuff Still Happens, week 1: Happy new year … sort of
Welcome to 2016! Let’s start the year by forgetting old animosities, starting fresh and looking forward to an era of peace and goodwill between all religions and peoples. In that…
Saturday Photo: More Grey Weather…
When people have asked how we could have chosen Montreal over California when we made our great move decades ago, I always have said that I thought white, cold winters…
A Rose By Any Other Name…
They're America's homegrown insurgents-in-waiting. They're guys like renegade rancher, Cliven Bundy, whose supporters staged a heavily-armed standoff in defiance of federal officials and law enforcement. In that squabble, Bundy had…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Joseph Stiglitz comments on how the Trans-Pacific Partnership looks to make democracy subordinate to corporate interests:The US concluded secret negotiations on what may turn…
We Should Think Very Carefully
http://www.knowledge.info/A lot has been written recently about electoral reform -- ...
“A guild of vampires”
Alan conjures up a phrase that will forever live in infamy. Here. Newspapers living forever – thanks to the Count, mainly – not so much.
The only way to deal with email spammers
Is this. And take their kind offer to transfer you $2.5m in gold bullion, naturally.
Canadians Speak Out About Saudi Arabia
While our new government would, I'm sure, dearly love to change the channel on the indefensible arms deal with Saudi Arabia that I have been recently writing about, it is…
Stephen Harper and the Twilight of the Cons
As you know I've been trying to figure out why Stephen Harper has been keeping such a low profile that some are now calling him the invisible man.And why he…
The Saudis are not Canada’s friends.
If you wanted to find opposites in the world of international relations, you could not find countries as contrary to each other as Canada and Saudi Arabia. When people refer…
As widely predicted, Calgary-Bow MLA Deborah Drever invited to rejoin New Democratic Party Government’s caucus
PHOTOS: Surrounded and supported by NDP House Leader Brian Mason, Calgary-Varsity MLA Stephanie McLean and Finance Minister Joe Ceci, Calgary-Bow MLA Deborah Drever addresses the media in Calgary yesterday after…
We’re #4 Canadian Travel app
The Heart of London climbs to the top: We’re #4, We’re #4! You’re in for it now that I have another app posted… yes.. a plethora of daily reports about…
The reprimand
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