NDP Education Minister David Eggen’s warning yesterday he could defund 28 religious private schools if they won’t obey the law and implement diversity policies and UCP Leader Jason Kenney’s refusal…
You and Minister Duncan are liars, and are harming Saskatchewan's chance at adapting to #climatechange. Stop fighting the #carbontax, and start making a plan to leave office so real leaders…
There was clearly something terribly wrong with Donald Trump during his recent visit to France.He seemed bitter, paranoid, angry. Afraid of everything, including the rain.It was clear that the midterm…
It’s perceptible, even palpable. Donald Trump is showing the strain of the mid-term elections. He’s looking worn and acting like an angry child. This, from the Los Angeles Times: For…
Moments after 10 p.m. last night, the few Albertans nervously paying attention outside Calgary received word voters in Cowtown had clearly said no to the idea of a re-do in…
Ever since Maxime Bernier left the Cons to form his own party, the People's Party or Max Party, Andrew Scheer has been desperately trying to ignore him. Trying to pretend,…
I like to think George Monbiot had Justin Trudeau in mind when he wrote: Those to whom we look for solutions trundle on as if nothing has changed. As if…
The signs are inescapable. They still take many of us by surprise. A lot of us can’t or desperately seek to avoid having to connect the dots but that does…
Except that is for the National Post. It needs to be put out of its misery. Adios, Paul Godfrey and take Black with you, preferably before the power is cut…
https://earthgauge.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/mixdown-18-11-13.mp3 Environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Broadcast every other Tuesday at 12:00 noon EST on CKCU radio 93.1 FM in Ottawa or online…
There’s an interesting conundrum in the fall, that gets people arguing every year. More than just Daylight Saving Time (which is silly and all this malarky with changing clocks makes…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday November 14, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise…
Doug Ford’s government has only been in office for five months. But already it is engulfed in scandal. Robert Benzie and Rob Ferguson report in the Toronto Star that: Chaos…
U.S. President Donald Trump is but an immature child playing at being the leader of the most powerful nation on earth. The point was so perfectly positioned the other day…
Palm oil gets used in plenty of consumer goods and processed foods, as a result the demand for palm oil increases every year. The problem with using palm oil is…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Trish Garner comments on the need to acknowledge the humanity of people living in poverty – which leads to the inescapable need to…
From an article by Samuel Moyn in the New York Times: “‘Classical Marxists, where they obtained power, expropriated the bourgeoisie and gave their property to the state,’ ‘Where you obtained…
Hey, so you know how Maxime Bernier wanted to have ridding officials for his new party sign a pledge not to embarrass him and his new People's Party of Canada?…
This is an essay I wrote in 1997 titled Ten Arguments for Proportional Representation. I used the 1993 federal election as a starting point. Some of the discussion is clearly…
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