(Photo credit: @Alberta_UCP on Twitter) With more than 2,500 party members in attendance, this weekend’s United Conservative Party founding convention was one of the biggest political events in Alberta’s recent…
This would be funny in the ironic ha-ha sense if it wasn’t so damned serious. While the rest of us were watching UCP members debate policy resolutions in a conference…
Steven Myatt has been in Western Canada for nearly a month, first attending the weekend conference and anti-Muslim rally organized by Artur Pawlowski Calgary. His purpose in traveling to Western…
Social conservative extremist Tanya Granic Allen was removed yesterday from the Ontario Progressive Conservative candidate roster by leader Doug Ford after more of her homophobic bigotry was revealed. Yesterday, the…
We’ve seen it several times – a cop guns down someone holding a cell phone in their hand. The cop always says he opened fire because he thought the victim…
Shame on you for how MP Erin Weir has been treated. You consider yourselves the Party of Tommy Douglas and Jack Layton??!!!! Shame!!!
Shame on you for how MP Erin Weir has been treated. You consider yourselves the Party of Tommy Douglas and Jack Layton??!!!! Shame!!!
Shame on you for how MP Erin Weir has been treated.You consider yourselves the Party of Tommy Douglas and Jack Layton??!!!! Shame!!!
Active Measures is the name of a new documentary about Donald Trump and his ties to the Russian mob. It is also a term used to describe a series of…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Tom Parkin discusses the need for a new Tommy Douglas to start leading the way toward national social programs – and the…
“Don’t overlook the oily little fishes,” is rule 32 in Michael Pollan’s small book, “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual” (Penguin Books, 2009). I recently acquired a copy. I’ve read Pollan’s…
As you probably know Tanya Granic Allen and Doug Ford had a very special relationship going.For if she and her band of religious fanatics hadn't thrown their support to Ford…
Dans le cadre de la conférence internationale de la Grande Transition, vous êtes conviés à La Grande Foire du Livre et des Mouvements Sociaux qui se tiendra dans le Cœur…
When it comes to elections, a lot has been written about the apathy of the young. Recent polling in Ontario suggests that apathy may no longer be the default position…
There are questions we need to ask of candidates in the coming provincial election in Ontario. This is not to embarrass anyone. It is to challenge their thinking. It is…
I’ve often said I should write a one-shot blog about what causes wars. I don’t look forward to it because it’s going to offend a lot of people. But here…
50 years after France’s legendary May 1968, which almost toppled the government, unions and students are again mobilizing against the government. However, while the establishment celebrates May ’68, its criticizes…
Recently I read a provocative and inspiring blog by Cormac Russell, the founder and CEO of Nurture Development, one of eleven strategic partners of the ABCD Institute. I blogged recently…
Good on Doug Ford. Because, you know what should make you want to “vomit?” It’s crypto-fascists like Tanya Granic Allen, who hate other people simply because that’s the way God…
Promises, promises, promises…
With the Ontario election period rapidly approaching the major political partys are busy trying to buy your votes with your own money (or actually promises to spend it by putting…