Either support new pipelines or your community will be incinerated by an oil-carrying train. It sounds outrageous, but it’s been a foundational argument made by the pro-pipeline lobby ever since…
Former CIA director James Woolsey bailed out on Donald Trump yesterday. Former CIA Director James Woolsey, a veteran of four presidential administrations and one of the nation’s leading intelligence experts,…
Chicago logged a record 762 murders in 2016, most of them by hand guns. Vancouver, while much smaller than the Windy City, saw hundreds of deaths from fentanyl overdose including…
I was randomly clicking around, and for absolutely no reason, clicked on Blogger’s spam comment folder. And in that folder, I found a bunch of spam comments — and several…
Transnational Radicals: Italian Anarchists in Canada and the U.S., 1915-1940 Travis Tomchuk University of Manitoba Press, 2015 There are numerous studies of the left in Canada. These studies range from…
Big day for Collus-PowerStream today: the deadline for acceptance of PowerStream’s sale offer for the remaining share of our utility expires this afternoon. And of course Council will finally deal…
Joe Biden spoke for a good many people around the world when he urged Donald Trump to “grow up.” “Grow up, time to be an adult, you’re president.“Biden said it…
Before Who Killed the Electric Car? officially hit theaters in 2006, Chris Paine and I hopscotched the country with it on a Sony press tour. Over the course of a…
Photo by Matt Jiggins There’s no sugar-coating it: 2016 was a disappointing year for the Left, as we saw the Democratic Party’s attack on Bernie Sanders, the election of Donald…
As you know, I believe that Kellie Leitch's campaign manager Nick Kouvalis has made a big mistake by leading the hapless Leitch down the road to Trumpland.And has let his…
As you may or may not know, Ottawa and the provinces have been trying to get a new deal on healthcare reached. Initial efforts failed, although 3 Atlantic Provinces have…
I never have thought I should look to big corporations and big unions for ethical guidance. But what Jerry Dias et al. are saying, these days – i.e., we should…
It doesn’t seem to matter to America’s rabid right wing that they got what they wanted: a man in the White House who they believe will magically solve all the…
Kellie Leitch is in a tight spot. Her campaign manager, Nick Kouvalis, has admitted manufacturing falsehoods. Michael Harris writes: Kouvalis has admitted that he posted a pack of lies about…
Spotted this in the National Post this morning: Clarification – Yank Barry: On April 15, 2012, the National Post published an article about Mr. Yank Barry entitled “The world according…
It is too bad that Ontario Premier Wynne has no politically smart advisors or staff. Here it is the first week of 2017 and the foolish lady is deep in…
Muskrat Falls is basically an $800 million tax on the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. That’s roughly the amount you get using numbers Nalcor chief executive Stan Marshall made public…
As Bond Papers noted on Thursday, part of the Hebron deal will involve a change to the provincial royalty regime local media are characterising as a concession.The Telegram reported on…
PHOTOS: The school run by the Trinity Christian School Association in Cold Lake (photo from the group’s website). Below: Alberta Education Minister David Eggen, Alberta Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley, NDP…
Alberta’s carbon tax, lauded by economists and experts and derided by opposition conservatives, came into force on January 1, 2017. From photo-ops at gas pumps to outright climate change denial,…
