Photo: Calgary-Lougheed by-election candidates Jason Kenney (UCP), David Khan (Liberal), Lauren Thorsteinson (Reform), Phillip van der Merwe (NDP), Romy Tittel (Green) and Wayne Leslie (Independent/AAPPA). Not pictured: Larry Heather (Independent)…
Photo by Ottawa Citizen, via YouTube In December 2014, the former Carleton University sociology professor, husband to Rania, father of a lovely toddler daughter and one month before the birth…
Photo by gnuckx Part I – The Inevitable Apartheid Nation We know where Zionism has taken Israel. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 led the way. In that imperial and colonial…
Photo from Public Domain Canada’s punditry just created the world’s newest alt-right folk hero. And it only took them 10 days. That has to be a record for them, really…
Whether it’s Charles Dickens or George Orwell, there are some who impart wisdom that is truly timeless. Another is American humourist, Will Rogers. Enjoy. See they conducted experiments on convicts…
The fate of the Yukon’s Peel Watershed — one of the most pristine wilderness areas in Canada and home to four First Nations — will be decided by the Supreme…
Vancouver is increasingly moving towards a financial caste system. It’s not like it hasn’t been going on for generations, but now it’s becoming entrenched in civic development policy. Instead of…
A story in the CBC has the Canadian Revenue Agency in hot pursuit of tax cheats focusing on Canada’s richest neighbourhoods.“Comparing someone’s lifestyle — cars, boats, houses — to their…
Donald Trump wonders why have nukes if you can’t use them. Vlad is furiously deploying new warheads and delivery systems including new nuclear subs and ultra-long range cruise missiles. Team…
Dear Parkdale-High Park Members, Volunteers, Donors & Supporters: It has been my great pleasure to work with and get to know you over the past few years. Over the past…
Big Tobacco is coming clean in newspapers and on TV screens across the US. It’s not voluntary. A court is holding a gun to their heads. The parallels between Big…
I suppose it makes sense. According to Dictionary.com, the most commonly looked-up word this year is “complicit.“ Look-ups of the word increased nearly 300 percent over last year as “complicit”…
By chance, I came across the White Helmets (Syria) film on Netflix. It’s called White Helmets. And any reporter who watched it should have known this was pure, staged propaganda.…
Elon Musk wagered he could build s 129 megawatt battery in Queensland within 100 days or it was free. Tesla built and installed the battery with plenty of time to…
One of the now outdated vestiges of our former geological epoch, the Holocene, is disaster relief where governments federal and state or federal and provincial disburse large sums of cash…
Please explain again why your insistence that we need to build more pipelines is valid, given these facts: A new world record price for electricity set earlier this month signals…
For a new CCPA blog post on housing (un)affordability, I dove into the latest Census data for Metro Vancouver. I used two series on shelter cost and shelter-to-income ratio, and…
Dear Minister Joly: May I call you Melanie? You’ve blocked my access to your ministerial Twitter account, so please forgive the formality of an open letter. I sense that I’ve…
For all their evils and its wrongs, the Soviets did some things very well: propaganda and disinformation. As one writer commented in the Spectator, “Communist ideology dismissed the idea of…
For years I have tried to avoid watching the CBC National on Thursdays so as to avoid the At Issue panel.For it was always a Con clown show under Big…
