In the decade between 2008 and last year, the number of civil servants in Alberta on a per capita basis fell by 5 per cent. In the same period, Alberta’s…
Huddled cats.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ndp-quebec-platform-1.5284356 What Singh is offering Quebec is a major step to separation. In effect, it offers Quebec control over immigration, and the right to treat anglo-Quebeckers as non-citizens.For a start,…
Bad news for Justin. Bad news for Andy. A new survey shows the environment is the most important issue for Vancouver voters. It’s also a close second concern for Vancouver…
It wasn’t that long ago – December, 1991 – when the Soviet Union collapsed and, with it, the Warsaw Pact that once anchored the Soviets’ hold over Eastern Europe. One…
Cassandra. That’s the mantle to be worn by anyone who regularly circulates the latest information from climate science. Chronicling a planetary-scale, slow-motion train wreck is not a cheerful pursuit. It…
Well it's definitely not as good as the original Wizard of Oz. How could it be with Maxime Bernier playing the scarecrow?And screaming all day long about how he wants…
Photo by Vincent Yu/AP I could tell you that the global population in 1955, the year my father was born, was 2.7 billion people. I could tell you that that…
If you really want a detailed assessment of anything, print is always your best source. For example, today’s Star details the horrendous changes taking place in the Arctic thanks to…
I have to admit I'm stunned. I honestly thought that Andrew Scheer had hit rock bottom when he refused to apologize for comparing LGBT Canadians to dogs.And exposed his naked…
We are onto Day 7 of the 43rd General Election and the parties are all spread out around the country trying to win over peoples votes. A big piece of…
If you planted native species in your garden then you deserve a pat on the shoulder. Your efforts have helped the butterflies return from dangerously low population levels. In Toronto…
Donald Trump says his country is “locked and loaded” for a confrontation with Iran. Before he wanders into the desert again, Andrew Bacevich writes that Trump would do well to…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ann Pettifor discusses how a Green New Deal will pay for itself while making use of readily available sources of financing. And…
We hardly got through the first week of the federal election before the conservatives brought out their usual election chestnut. It is time to promise lower taxes. It would hardly…
What a tangled web we weave. https://t.co/JspEEdXnMq #cdnpoli #elxn43 pic.twitter.com/IBGANwveUp — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 17, 2019
This is the “Beast of Kandahar.” It is Lockheed Martin’s super stealth RQ-170 drone. It was ‘top secret’ until it wasn’t. In 2011, the CIA had one operating over Iran…
Returned to power after four years, Alberta’s Conservative party is governing pretty much as you’d expect from a government that, as Talleyrand supposedly said of the restored House of Bourbon,…
Supporters of the Stop the JNF Campaign protest the 2016 national conference of the Jewish National Fund in New York City. Photo by Joe Catron. We are beginning to hear…
