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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…
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…
Frankly, I am getting tired of this schmaltzy feminist dialogue from the prime minister. Enough is enough. He needs a new playbook. This business reminds me of the time his…
PHOTO: Dave Barrett and the author in February 2008. The death yesterday at 87 of Dave Barrett, premier of British Columbia from 1972 to 1975, is a huge loss to…
PHOTOS: Derek Fildebrandt as he hoped to be perceived when he went hunting in rural Alberta (photo grabbed from his Facebook account). It didn’t work out as planned. Below: Mr.…
My dad emigrated from Colombia to North America when he was 18 looking looking for a better life. For my brother and I that meant a lot of standing outside…
Anastasia Yankova, a Russian model-turned-mixed martial artist who has appeared in a Nike commercial, was a month away from her professional debut when she took to Instagram to post a…
Wow. And, postscript: Jenni Byrne is a bit of hero, no?
Phantogram – You Don’t Get Me High Anymore
The stand-off between Alberta and British Columbia over the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline seems to grow in intensity by the minute. On Tuesday the B.C. NDP announced a proposal…
Anyone who saw pictures of caribou being flown on government helicopters from one remote Lake Superior island to another could have been left scratching their heads, wondering just what was…
Straight from the horse’s mouth today in Nanaimo: “We wanted a national carbon reduction plan, a national emissions plan that is going to allow us to reach our climate goals,…
When B.C. cabinet members arrive at the NDP’s provincial council meeting tomorrow in New Westminster, they will face a group of “very concerned” delegates and party members who are urging…
Rumoured changes to the way the federal government makes decisions about offshore oil and gas projects have fishermen and environmentalists crying foul on Canada’s East Coast. The changes would give…
It’s been a nightmarish year for Washington State’s only active Atlantic salmon farming company — Canada’s Cooke Aquaculture Inc. On Tuesday, a Cooke subsidiary was found responsible for an August…