Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Nothing But Thieves – Futureproof
Assorted content to end your week. – The Canadian Medical Association calls for Scott Moe to finally reinstate public health rules to prevent Saskatchewan’s already-catastrophic fourth wave of COVID-19 from…
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Toronto police officers who ignore vaccine mandate will be placed on ‘indefinite unpaid absence’ via @TorontoStar – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit…
In one of his most significant works, Death of the Liberal Class, Chris Hedges argues that the traditional bulwarks against corporate power no longer fulfill that role. He asserts that…
Seven years ago, my band had agreed to play a gig at @TheGarrisonTO and word came about the murder of Nathan Cirillo. We debated whether to cancel and a former…
This photograph of the Himalaya was taken from the International Space Station in 2004. Visible from left to right are: Makalu, Chomolungma (Everest), Lhotse and Cho Oyu. Photo courtesy of…
Catherine Rempel writes that the Republican Party is rebranding itself: Once upon a time, Republicans portrayed themselves as the party of small government and family values. Recently, though, GOP leaders…
At the end of a month-long international campaign for the release of Georges Abdallah, a large demonstration will be held on October 23 in front of the Lannemezan prison in…
Ontario premier Doug Ford will always revert to type. He is basically dumb and there is no way to hide it. He has the political savvy of a gerbil and…
We’re not strangers to powerful squalls and extreme winds but what’s heading for Vancouver Island over the next few days could be biblical. Report authors note that the first storm…
PoP BC formed after health professionals became concerned about inadequate health policies in BC. Are participants qualified to express opinions different than government officials who balance political issues with health…
Of all the conclusions of Commissioner Steve Allan’s misbegotten and sometimes incoherent $3.5-million “Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns” might have come up with, the most unexpected was what he…
The U.S. is quite possibly the worst murderer in history. That goes all the way back hundreds of years to the time when the first British settlers arrived to murder…
It was just a few days ago when Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, wrote a stirring piece that, if the world went on a wartime-type footing, putting the climate crisis as…
Well, Erin O'Toole finally crawled out of the place where he has been hiding, looking like a talcum powdered mannequin. And in an interview with TVO's Steve Paikin tried to…
Ontario civil court records found online show our Mayor, Brian Saunderson, is listed as the first defendant in a recent lawsuit, along with his allegedly former employers. The lawsuit is…
A supporter of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti’s first democratically elected president, during election day rallies, Port au Prince, November 28, 2010. Photo by mediahacker/Flickr. It is remarkable how easily the Canadian…
What were you expecting, some global Kumbaya moment? Ten days and counting to the opening of the COP 26 climate summit and details about efforts to subvert the drive to…
Alberta, or at least the southern part of the province, is looking at a future of water insecurity. Climate change and the retreat of glaciers are the main culprits. Canada’s…
