Eating off the Hill: KFC is cannon fodder in the chicken sandwich wars
It seems like all the cool stuff comes to Canada late. That’s certainly the case with the fast food chicken sandwich wars, which have already been fought and won in…
It seems like all the cool stuff comes to Canada late. That’s certainly the case with the fast food chicken sandwich wars, which have already been fought and won in…
It's an absolute freak show. A real fascist circus, where Erin O'Toole tries to fool Canadians into believing that he's really a nice guy. While the Con clowns in the…
After more than a year of silly stickers on our gas pumps, Ontario voters have got the message. And the Ontario Court System has finally got around to noting that…
Part of my routine every morning is to check Environment Canada’s weather forecast. Now I first visit www.firesmoke.ca to see what I’ll be breathing today. Today is looking pretty grim.…
The past 24 hours has been stark and shocking watching what just unfolded in the United States. For the all the things we’ve heard and seen from Donald Trump in…
Henry Giroux does not pull his punches. Donald Trump, he writes, is fanning white wing violence in an effort to establish a fascist state: Nobody should justify assaults that lead…
Donald Trump defends his decision to mislead the American people about the Covid-19 virus for two months, claiming he didn’t want to ‘panic’ the public. There is much wrapped up…
Believe it or not there are people out there who don’t want renewable energy and actively campaign to keep our power grid based on world-destroying fossil fuels. These backward thinking…
Back in 2012 — several years before the 2016 US election that saw what many believe was an inept, incompetent, lying, Russian agent and con artist get elected to the…
We had another good breakfast at Popsey’s, then hit the road to Victoria. Campbell River is halfway between Port Hardy, the northernmost town on the Island, and Victoria, at the…
At least Canada’s conservatives are consistent. When they’re out of power they all promise to get Canada’s financial house in order if and when they again hold the reins of…
Get ready. Coming our way, and underway already, beginning with the Official Community Plan (OCP) are four critically important public consultation processes that will determine, lock down, basically carve in…
The New Brunswick provincial election comes to an end in less than a week on Monday, September 14th Given the nature of this first COVID campaign in Canada, every chance…
Reading The Guardian last week, two articles captured my attention. Set side by side were “A ‘tyrant-clown’ has destroyed my love affair with America” by Robert McCrum and “‘Chairman Xi’…
Freedom-of-information documents reveal that the Municipality of North Cowichan deliberately withheld important information on reasons for a 60-day pause in public consultation on the future of the Municipal Forest Reserve.…
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Donald Trump wants Americans to believe. He wants Americans to believe he alone is to be believed. He wants Americans to believe that the others are all liars. Journalists are…
‘Back to School’ Welcome back everyone. After nearly 6 months ‘away’, unions, teachers, administrators, students, parents and everyone else tied to the educational system are all adding their own ingredients…
Americans despise socialism, whatever they imagine that to be. They automatically conflate socialism with Communism and totalitarianism, the loss of their constitutionally guaranteed, democratic rights. It’s the Freedumb Factor at…
It is said that America has never been as deeply divided, across so many fault lines, since the Civil War. Social cohesion is broken, perhaps irreparably. Chris Hedges maintains that…