T……… has this story of Russian aircraft flying to the edge of our north. https://www.rt.com/news/422580-russia-flight-north-pole-us/ The irving press doesn’t have it. It’s big, news-you-need-to-know, front page headline and story –…
The number of unlicensed and potentially dangerous dams built in recent years in northeast British Columbia is nearly double what has been reported, according to one of the province’s top…
They don’t have a clue. Your federal government and our various provincial governments are in the same boat. None of them has assessed the risks we face from climate change…
Consider this a Public Service Announcement. We don’t get a lot of news in Canada about the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Most of what…
I got a chance to watch most of Power and Politics yesterday, and although I was reasonably impressed by its new host Vassy Kapelos, the editorial direction of the program…
In the mid-1970s, a young lawyer named Ian Waddell took a helicopter ride across the Crow Flats, in northern Yukon. He was accompanying Justice Thomas Berger on his visits to…
Mass surveillance is everywhere in modern cities. Cameras are on every corner monitoring all sorts of activities, which led one person to think about using them to see if traffic…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Mitchell Thompson discusses the absurdity of setting up Canada’s banks for collapses and bailouts, rather than ensuring they serve the public interest.…
Here, on Canada’s failure to live up to our self-image as a generous and compassionate country – and the reality that we have plenty of fiscal capacity to close the…
The Ontario Liberals released their election budget yesterday. And they’re making big promises. Tom Walkom writes: It cements in place Wynne’s earlier commitment to universal pharmacare by eliminating the deductibles…
I am convinced that, like so many other traditional values, our right to, and desire for, privacy is quickly becoming but a vestige of an earlier era, We readily share…
Responding to: Wynne’s ploy to buy Ontarians’ votes is admirably shameless: Robyn Urback The author writes, “Few politicians would dare campaign on a platform so estranged from the principles of…
Plus: well-timed sirens!
It took the questionable memory of Toronto Police Services Board chair Alok Mukherjee to relate it and the writing skills of Toronto Star writer Tim Harper to forge it. And…
ILLUSTRATIONS: “And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he struck the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their animals also.”…
Last year the government promised a 4.64% health care funding increase in 2018/19. Then, earlier this month, they announced they would deficit spend to improve hospitals, mental health, home care,…
By Amy Lubik, Ben Parfitt and Grand Chief Stewart Phillip Just two days before B.C. Energy Minister Michelle Mungall announced a completely inadequate “independent scientific review” of fracking in our…
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#LUCYDOITRESTER #LETLUCYSTAY MONTREAL COMMUNITY ORGANIZER FOR THE RIGHTS OF UNDOCUMENTED WOMEN, LUCY FRANCINETH GRANADOS, FACES DEPORTATION – HELP US JAM THE LINES TO STOP HER DEPORTATION https://www.facebook.com/events/209485126474388/ Our friend, our…
Oil companies have become some of the wealthiest organizations in history by producing a product that we now know is endangering the future of humanity. Many of these companies have…
