A Leap Of Faith?
Thus far, I have been singularly underwhelmed by the performance of federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh. First, although a well-established Ontario MPP and deputy leader of the provincial party, he…
Thus far, I have been singularly underwhelmed by the performance of federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh. First, although a well-established Ontario MPP and deputy leader of the provincial party, he…
As you know, I've often wondered why the Con media is so biased against Justin Trudeau, and hates him so much.I've blamed that bias on shameless scribblers trying to please…
It is unlikely that in this era of #MeToo that we can find many men willing to stick their neck out—or any other body part, for that matter. It is…
Freedom House, the U.S.-based institute which surveys the progress of democracy, civil society, freedom of speech and the media round the world has produced a report headlined “Democracy in Crisis”…
So ARC readers may remember that an article primarily focused on the reaction to the hijab story in Toronto also included some information on Shawn Le Guerrier. Le Guerrier had…
BC Hydro executives have mismanaged the Site C dam’s overall budget and cost control process, and they are “not capable” of accurate estimates or controlling costs on the $10.7 billion…
When it seemed clear the newly minted B.C. NDP government would not pursue charges against Imperial Metals, owner and operator of the Mount Polley mine, for a 2014 tailings pond…
Since the Saskatchewan Party’s leadership campaign didn’t do much to test Scott Moe’s track record, it will fall to the rest of us to point out the reasons why his…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Thomas Kochan takes a look at what workers would want done with the cost of corporate tax cuts if they weren’t being silenced…
Mr. Jim Irving, co-CEO of J.D. Irving Ltd. deigned to meet with reporters (from the irving press). He claimed to be anxious to maintain oil production at safe levels. (I…
A big chunk of the reading and thinking and writing that I’m doing at the moment is focused on working out how to expansively and radically think about listening as…
Damn you Google Earth and your Deep State technology!
What’s the difference between all-out nuclear war and catastrophic climate change? So far we haven’t been stupid enough to resort to all-out nuclear war. Both of them can end civilization,…
Timing is everything, in comedy and in politics. Late on a Friday – just as Maclean’s was breaking a huge story about the Harper Conservatives knowing that they had a…
I’m sure it’s all a great big coincidence. I am told that Public Accounts show the government annually shovelled thousands at iPolitics for most of the past decade – more,…
While much of the country’s attention was focused on the rapidly escalating stand-off between Alberta and British Columbia over the Trans Mountain pipeline this week, another major environmental announcement went…
Walter Shapiro writes that the Nunes memo is a 21st Century version of the Piltdown Man: perhaps the most famous fraud in the history of paleontology combined a 600-year-old skull,…
Always has been, too. The passage below is from this web site, on September 26th, 2010, as passed along by Dan Shields. I actually forgot I wrote it. Patriquin didn’t,…
Ever since he became leader Andrew Scheer has been able to avoid the ghastly legacy of Stephen Harper and his Con regime.The leader and the regime he served so faithfully.But…
When I saw this picture of Justin Trudeau preparing to face a town hall in Edmonton the other day, I wondered how it must feel to go where no Prime…