PHOTOS: Social conservative publisher and ideologue Ted Byfield (Photo: Screenshot of Youtube Video). Below: United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney, NDP Education Minister David Eggen, and Calgary-West UCP MLA Mike…
This from December 24, 2011. Time to Break Our Growth Addiction Imagine being trapped in a society that considers heretical the notion of living within its finite means. That is…
Despite pledging to build a big tent conservative party, Jason Kenney and his United Conservative Party MLAs appear to be doing their best this week to define themselves as the…
Right here! It’s a momentous fall for Warren Kinsella, the Toronto-based author, lawyer, political consultant, and veteran punk musician. This November sees both the release of his new novel Recipe…
Valérie Plante, recently elected the first woman mayor of Montreal, represents a fairly radical but highly creative force in Quebec politics, argues Harold R. Chorney, a Professor of Political Economy…
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No, not the temperature, although that too is getting hot. I’m referring to the tenor of our social and political discourse. We’re turning venomous, turning on each other. Society is…
…and what men to-night Have had to resort to you: for here have been Some six or seven, who did hide their faces Even from darkness.
A new poll on Canadian attitudes on climate change reveals some pretty stunning numbers about public desire for politicians to act. The poll by Abacus Data found 85 per cent…
The Guardian editorial puts tax havens and those who use them to shirk taxes in a useful perspective. It’s a group of privileged individuals who are seceding from society. Well,…
In the previous part of this story, I provided dates of meetings and events in the terms of the previous council (on which I sat) and the current council. I…
(Ontario Ombudsman Taking A Hands Off Approach To Systemic Issues With Ontario’s School Boards) Just as the Ministry of Education’s probe of more mishandling of public funds at the York…
Here’s a great video of some of the great things to see while looking around Saskatchewan. I’ve lived here nearly all my life, and I still haven’t seen it all…
Few have done it so well as Roger Cohen’s op-ed dissection of Donald Trump in Der Spiegel.Many of us tend to take Trump’s insults to decency as they come, one…
Roy Moore, twice disgraced chief justice of Alabama and now Republican candidate for the US Senate, seems to be a bible-thumping magnet for controversy. Roy, the US Army officer who…
Why has B.C. become home to Canada’s most vibrant news ecosystem? Credit the wellspring of creativity here — the province’s beauty and potential has long attracted change-makers. Hidden amid gloomy…
I really don’t want to write this one. Nov. 11, Remembrance Day, approaches, and I know that some people will take this as a criticism of our veterans of foreign…
Here’s a little snippet from next week’s column, about this ad. Because the media scrutinize attack ads like no other form of political communication – and because voters don’t want…
The British government has decided to support a Europe-wide ban on certain insect-killing pesticides believed responsible for the massive die-off of bees and other flying bugs. The decision reverses the…
Funny what you read in the foreign papers. Apparently the Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council has ruled that it’s permissible to say “f#@k” on the radio, on one condition. It’s only…
