Actually McInnes isn't a fan of Palestinians specifically and Muslims in general either, but we're sort of getting ahead of ourselves here. We've written about Ezra Levant a number of…
The cybersecurity debate can undermine human rights and the international obligation on governments to protect them, argues Lucy Purdon, a policy officer at Privacy International. The post Cybersecurity should protect…
For a guy who doesn’t hesitate to self-identify as a progressive, a certain outspoken Liberal doesn’t seem to have a clue what that means. That much came through when, in…
Was out and about this afternoon. Nature has a way of evening up the score – after a relatively balmy and dry January and February, March so far has provided…
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 West Coast's RELAW Project Lead Maxine Hayman Matilpi shares stories from a recent conference that brought together historians, legal scholars and Indigenous people who are direct…
Couch-surfing cats.
You might find this a bit unsettling. The latest thing in nuclear war is cyber warfare, hacking an enemy’s control systems to either disable his nuclear deterrent or, worse, launching…
America’s economy dwarfs Russia’s. America’s military might eclipses the Russians’ except, perhaps, in nuclear warheads. Overall Russia can’t hold a candle to the United States of America. So why does…
All my life I came to think of the Arctic as a place of ice and snow. It appears that’s about to change. The Arctic is set to get drenched…
She’s a legend, Tracey Ullman.
Get this. More than 4,000 dams in the United States are now rated unsafe because of structural and other problems. It’s a safe bet we’re in the same boat in…
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Is the G-20 about to kick climate change to the curb? Apparently so, at least according to Bloomberg. Finance ministers for the U.S., China, Germany and other members of the…
The history of the Athabasca Tar Sands reveals an on-again/off-again project. In the postwar years there was massive support for development of the bitumen basin. The Canadian government even signed…
Almost a full decade since first applying for a presidential permit, TransCanada looks set to finally receive go-ahead in the U.S. for its massive $8-billion Keystone XL pipeline. But here’s…
And if the snow buries my CH neighbourhood And if Che is flying Then he'll saucer a pass From his stick blade to PatCHes Yeah, a pass, from his stick…
And if the snow buries my CH neighbourhoodAnd if Che is flyingThen he’ll saucer a passFrom his stick blade to PatCHesYeah, a pass, from his stick blade to PatCHesKidA has…
I was mad. I was listening to a cabinet minister on the radio this morning. He was invoking the penultimate progressive political totemic, the vaunted “middle class.” (The ultimate progressive…
Media Release Foundations for an Alberta Alternative Budget released today (March 14, 2017-Edmonton) Today, a coalition of researchers, economists, and members of civil society released a plan to boost Alberta’s…
