For decades, Kevin Taft has served as a thorn in the side of Alberta’s provincial government. In his new book, Taft, who served as a Liberal MLA between 2001 and…
Quantum mechanics and string theory are difficult concepts for the layman to grasp at even a superficial level. I’ve done it twice but each time it took a good bit…
The inaugural edition of our new podcast Earthgauge News! A weekly Canadian environmental news podcast featuring the top environmental stories from across Canada for the week of Oct. 9, 2017.…
Publisher’s Weekly is the book trade publication in the United States. As Wikipedia notes, it is the “American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.…
OK, so I’ve read the recent Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) decision about the proposed change in zoning in the Moonglo neighbourhood. What a gong show for the City this whole…
…and, in 25 years of writing books, I can tell you that this is the best review I’ve ever gotten from them. As I just told my publisher, I am…
There was a (brief) pleasure in opening the pages of the irving press today. Norbert Cunningham has at last noticed that climate change is happening – and quickly. And I…
Like countless others, I support those protesting both the wicked legacy and current practice of North American racism. While more egregious perhaps in the United States, Canada’s own shameful racist…
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Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday, October 11, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. In addition to the minimum notice and severance required by…
For too long cities have been plagued by NIMBYism – people who chant not in my backyard. People who oppose change have held back communities for too long and now…
Things have not been going well for the Trudeau government of late. Tim Harper catalogues its problems: Nowhere has the gap between expectations and delivery been wider than on Indigenous…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Stephanie Levitz reports on new polling showing an increasing number of Canadians self-identifying as part of the working class or poor, while also…
On Thanksgiving, the Toronto Star devoted several thousand well chosen words to welcoming Jagmeet Singh as leader of the federal New Democratic Party. It was generous, surprisingly inaccurate, hopeful and…
PHOTOS: All or part of 14 of the 25 candidates who took part in the City of St. Albert’s city council candidates’ forum last night. Below: Author Darryl Raymaker and…
Photo: Diana McQueen, Don Iveson, Jim Prentice and Naheed Nenshi sign the Framework Agreement that paved the way for the development of city charters on Oct. 7, 2014 (Photo source:…
It's now been more than a week since the massacre in Las Vegas, and as you can imagine the NRA and their friends in Congress are feeling slightly beleaguered. And…
ARC readers are aware that Stormfront (as well as the even more disgusting Daily Stormer) was taken down in August not long after the events in Charlottesville that culminated in…
C’mon, you knew it had to be something.
If you’re in the Brantford area on Sunday Oct 15, and want to attend an interesting political and social discussion, consider coming Sunday Oct 15 to the Islamic Community Centre…
