PHOTOS: A screenshot of United Conservative Party leadership frontrunner Jason Kenney as he appeared during his Internet town hall Tuesday. Below: UCP leadership contenders Doug Schweitzer and Brian Jean, U…
There was a time when I or the other writers (when there were other writers) would post "fan mail" from our detractors because it was funny as hell. I haven't…
but… saw this today on Angers under the Cote Saint Paul leg of the Turcot rebuild. It does have a driver who is probably very highly paid and I wonder…
It’s disingenuous for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to publicly claim that Canada is safe for asylum claimants while the Bush-era Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) prevents refugees coming from…
The latest from the federal NDP’s leadership campaign. – NDP McGill has prepared handy summaries of the background and policy proposals of each of the leadership candidates. – Tim Harper…
The loss of life and property damage from Hurricane Harvey has been a very real human tragedy for those living along the U.S. Gulf Coast. For the rest of us,…
Former spy turned spy novelist extraordinaire, John le Carre, thinks he knows a thing or two about Donald Trump. The 85-year old author says Trump reminds him of his own…
We’ve known for years that 97% of scientific reports confirm the theory of anthropogenic climate change. 97% is a pretty powerful consensus but there’s still that contrarian 3%. What about…
There are 7.5 billion of us scattered across the globe. We inhabit all manner of places – deserts, swamps, temperate plains, polar regions – some hot, some cold; some wet,…
It's a monster hurricane, roaring out of the Atlantic Ocean and into the Caribbean. Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms ever recorded, battered the islands of the…
Values? They’re a crock. Most of us humans don’t have any values. We just have prejudices that we call values. Canadians have gone from murdering native peoples to holding slaves,…
Most of us are poorly versed in economics. We may have studied macro and micro-economics in university and we probably recall some of the core concepts but, for most, it…
PHOTOS: A children’s reading event at the St. Albert Public Library, illustrating the level of partication in some of the library’s programs. (Photo: YesForTheLibrary.ca.) Below: Councillor Cam MacKay, who is…
Two hallmarks of the neoliberal/neo-feudal society are everyday low taxes and easy credit. Together they help keep the plebs quiet. They also draw the less advantaged into a class known…
Mars, the company behind popular chocolate bars like Snickers and Twix has pledged $1 billion dollars to fight climate change. This isn’t a company randomly pledging money to help communities…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ben Chu reports on a new study showing that the UK’s economy is broken in failing to translate GDP gains into any help…
Paul Krugman wrote yesterday that Donald Trump’s decision to kill DACA was a “moral obscenity.” But, on simple economic grounds, it’s stupid: First note that whatever you think about the…
One of the big differences I have noticed between Canadian and American news is that while the former frequently addresses and uses the term climate change in their coverage of…
