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Graeme Hamilton: Quebec seeks special status for select journalists Quebec's Culture Minister, Christine St-Pierre, announced this week that she is pushing forward with a plan to create "a new model…
Graeme Hamilton: Quebec seeks special status for select journalists Quebec's Culture Minister, Christine St-Pierre, announced this week that she is pushing forward with a plan to create "a new model…
Jack Layton dead at 61 Jack Layton, the New Democratic Party leader who led his party to Official Opposition status in this year's federal election, has died after a battle…
Apparently Stephen Harper is bringing us "a new brand of patriotism" -- according to a movement conservative political operative who's currently working for a "high stakes public strategy firm" in…
Apparently in all the time I've been posting music, I've never posted Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks. This is Milk Shakin' Mama....
You may recall that last fall when the Conservative government, with the help of what was then the official opposition, reversed course and agreed to continue the involvement of Canadian…
Since the title of Lawrence Martin's column of yesterday is Pushing the limits of state surveillance, I would imagine he was going to go on to discuss the continuing assaults…
In the immediate aftermath of the Auditor General's report on G8 spending, we were assured that while the attention to administrative detail was lacking, there was certainly no intention to…
Prosecuting freedom of speech If pricking an elitist balloon is all it takes to face the punishment of the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council, then the Sun News Network is in…
Quebec NDP MPs stay silent on their political past The Star emailed every Quebec MP in the NDP caucus -- excluding Interim Leader Nycole Turmel -- a short questionnaire last…
I had two of these links stashed away for a while -- kinda laid back, not really blues, but good enough to work with. When I came across a third…
Glenn Greenwald Murtaza Hussain, posting at Glenn Greenwald's blog, reflects on the riots of the last few days in England and then looks closer to home. When considering the actual…
It was a bit less than two years ago that government lawyers, on behalf of CSIS, spiked their own evidence in the matter of the Security Certificate on Adil Charkaoui…
Apparently we have a prime minister who will literally lock himself in the nearest bathroom when he doesn't get his way. I suppose that's marginally better than holding his breath…
Howard Sapers is Canada's Correctional Investigator. If you want to know what's happening in Canada's prisons, he'd probably be a good place to start. Unless you're Public Safety Minister Vic…
Government cost-cutting agency has no business plan OTTAWA -- The Conservative government has no business plan for its newest agency despite promising it will save taxpayers between $100 million and…
I've seen a number of media stories since yesterday about the CSIS documents that were leaked to La Presse and supposedly reveal that Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui once plotted…
You go to Banglin' tell my boys You go to Banglin' tell my boys What times I'm havin' up in Illinois Illinois Blues was written by Skip James, who referred…
Japan's Fukushima catastrophe brings big radiation spikes to B.C. After Japan's Fukushima catastrophe, Canadian government officials reassured jittery Canadians that the radioactive plume billowing from the destroyed nuclear reactors posed…
Every year or two I find a reason to point to Declan's post on the Media Failure Two-Step. (And actually I could find a reason much more often than that.)…
The Harper Government™ has been doing such an awesome job of protecting the endangered woodland caribou in northeastern Alberta that a Federal Court has decided to step in and order…