FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2020 MP MACGREGOR INTRODUCES BILL TO ADDRESS FREIGHTER ANCHORAGES IN THE SALISH SEA OTTAWA – Today, NDP MP Alistair MacGregor introduced Private Member’s Bill C-250…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Randy Robinson writes that Doug Ford’s gratuitous austerity will have severe costs in both jobs and lives. And James Downie comments on…
There are still plenty of important results to be finalized in Saskatchewan’s election campaign, and I’ll have more to say about specific aspects of the campaign generally. But for starters…
Two years ago, in a limitless and sunny August when a global pandemic seemed like an impossibility, my daughter and I knocked on doors for the Democrats in Portland, Maine.…
There were two byelections in Toronto yesterday. When you combine those results with the results in New Brunswick, B.C., and Saskatchewan, there is a consistent message: We don’t want to…
By-elections, provincial results, etc.: all suggest that incumbents have more of an edge during the pandemic – voters don’t want more disruption in their lives. Trump will be the exception:…
Navigating the world can be challenging for able-bodied people, those in wheelchairs have it even harder. It doesn’t have to be this way. New buildings have to meet certain accessibility…
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Kate Harrison. We talked about the latest example of mixed messaging from the Ford Government on their response to…
One of those rare videos during an election cycle that leaves you quiet and still in the silence after it ends. pic.twitter.com/43THhRmj2W — The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 26, 2020
We all know that Donald Trump has not been your traditional president for the United States. Despite his oddities, we should still mark his single-term presidency with more than the…
Nalcor will have to replace about 350 fibreglass beams used in the Labrador-Island Link because of a fault in their manufacture. Nalcor discovered the fault during two incidents at Soldier’s…
Nalcor will have to replace about 350 fibreglass beams used in the Labrador-Island Link because of a fault in their manufacture. Nalcor discovered the fault during two incidents at Soldier’s…
Nalcor will have to replace about 350 fibreglass beams used in the Labrador-Island Link because of a fault in their manufacture. Nalcor discovered the fault during two incidents at Soldier’s…
Infuriated at the Kenney Government’s determination to lay off 11,000 public sector health care workers and privatize their jobs, members of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees walked off the…
I know, I said I would stop bothering you with my blog. But I made an extremely unpleasant discovery. Go to Counterpunch in your blog titles for October 26. The…
A comedian says he speaks as his “least popular character, Sacha Baron Cohen.”
Canada tries to take the high road with China’s genocide; lots of links of interest
John Horgan meets virtually with BC NDP northern candidates, October 6, 2020. Photo from Flickr. This past weekend John Horgan and the British Columbia NDP scored a massive majority victory…
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We discussed the NDP’s big majority government win in…
I am fascinated by this short poem by Piet Hein: CONSOLATION GROOK Losing one gloveis certainly painful,but nothingcompared to the painof losing one,throwing away the other,and findingthe first one again.…
