Monday Night Candidate Nomination Update
Here are some of the latest updates to the list of candidates running for party nominations ahead of Alberta’s expected 2019 provincial general election: Airdrie-Cochrane: Airdrie realtor Mauri Stiff is…
Here are some of the latest updates to the list of candidates running for party nominations ahead of Alberta’s expected 2019 provincial general election: Airdrie-Cochrane: Airdrie realtor Mauri Stiff is…
After more than a year of public hearings, the federal government unveiled its new and improved environmental assessment legislation in February 2018 with much ado. But the new rules —…
I do not believe that Canada needs a warplane that does one thing perhaps, possibly, maybe, better than its rivals: the ability to launch a first strike attack on an…
Assorted content to start your week. – Charlie May writes that the inequality which is radically reshaping the American political scene receives short shrift compared to other stories. And Thomas…
In the last federal election, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals swept Atlantic Canada. Daniel Savoie writes that Maritimers’ support for Trudeau has not been reciprocated: Consider the following. For the first time…
Commentator BM left a very useful analysis in response to my recent post on ways to protect online data. Here it is: Extreme lack of privacy suspicion back in 2010…
April 3rd is National Carers Day in Canada. You won’t receive any cards or cakes for National Carers Day. You won’t be handed a box of chocolates or a new…
As I'm sure you know, I've been portraying Donald Trump as a hog as long as I can remember.I realize that there are other names one could call that misogynist,…
Refuse to Cooperate: Karl Marx – Founder of Historical Materialism: “Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough.” – Karl Marx This short biography is based on Friedrich Engels’…
Refuse to Cooperate: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy – A Revie…: “Money is the alienated essence of man’s labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he…
It’s the biggest political scandal in the world. And it involves a bunch of Canadians. For quite some time now, it’s been known that Vladimir Putin’s Russia – and assorted…
It was really very funny last Thursday when conservative leader Doug Ford got pompously to his feet to harangue the liberal government for their election budget. It seems that towards…
You know what “spin” is, right? Spin is a biased interpretation of something to favour one side or the other. You get spin when someone uses an interpretation of an…
The Cambridge Analytica scandal gets murkier by the day and now it wends its way from some data wizards in a walk-up shop in Victoria through Republican America (Robert Mercer,…
PHOTOS: Easter Sunday shoppers at West Edmonton Mall. Is nothing sacred? Well, actually, something is: The Almighty Market, god of Canada’s state religion. Below: A brass idol to the Market…
With apologies to my man C. Dickens, it was the worst of customers, it was the best of customers. Our Children’s Department is short-staffed right now, and although that is…
Easter is not usually the time to reflect upon grumpy whiners; but given Jason Kenney’s mission to rebuild the conservative movement in Alberta this might be a good time to…
In an exclusive interview with Queer-liberal (exclusive because the short attention spans of other Queen’s Park reporters caused them to sashay away after the question was asked), pollster Lorne Bozinoff…
Following up on my post the other day, there is no sign that the pressure Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg has placed on Fox’s Laura Ingraham is abating. Indeed, one…