RCMP corporal Ron Francis has created a problem for Justice Minister Peter MacKay. Francis has post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, for which he smokes pot. He has a medical exemption to…
How about 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0? Not just one missile sitting in some lonesome silo in North Dakota. The lot of them. For twenty years, before more elaborate safeguards were put in place,…
Richard Hughes over at Cowichan Conversations has posted a piece, “Ditch Capitalism and Save the Planet.” What follows is a ‘train of thought’ response I attempted to leave as a…
A researcher in the Faroe Islands was doing a bit of exploratory flensing on a dead sperm whale. Then this happened. I imagine the smell must have been delightful.
Word is coming out of the discovery of a truly massive, shale oil field in Australia that’s expected to produce from 233 upwards to 400-billion barrels of crude oil. That’s…
Seattle voters have backed a proposition to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour in and around the SeaTac Airport. They also elected the city’s first socialist, an Occupy…
Who’s Watching Whom? My generation has probably witnessed more radical technological change than any other. We were born in the Golden Era of the Analog Age. We saw radio displaced…
It’s a powerful weapon to use against Islamist extremists – details of their online porn browsing. The NSA has been collecting details about the online sexual activity of prominent Islamist…
Why are governments squandering hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and subsidies so that energy producers can explore for ever more fossil fuel reserves? Seriously, we have no end…
Hard as it’s been to watch the Liberals morph into Conservative-Lite, it was vastly harder to witness the NDP slip its moorings on the left and migrate to the centre…
The United States has wasted little time letting China know what it thinks of China’s attempt to establish air superiority over the East China Sea and, in particular, the disputed…
If there was just one thing that Tories learned from Monday’s by-elections it was that they’re up against a resurgent Liberal challenge with Justin Trudeau at the helm. They probably…
Five days after the Wright-Duffy-Harper offshoot of the earlier Senate expenses scandal became public, your humble scribe predicted that Harper’s Achilles’ Heel in the PMO scandal was the fact that…
Kudos to Ontario’s Liberal government. While their provincial counterparts elsewhere in the country are furiously burying their heads in the sand, Ontario is going to introduce a 10-year plan to…
The Globe’s Jeffrey Simpson writes that yesterday’s by-election results sent a clear signal to federal Tories – they’re floundering and a big part of their problem is Stephen Joseph Harper.…
“User pays,” “personal responsibility,” “accountability,” “no free lunch,” words and phrases like these have become part of the modern political lexicon. We hear them used a lot but almost always…
If there’s still anyone willing to claim that what we did in Afghanistan was worth even one Canadian life, mention this. Afghanistan is on the brink of reinstating public death…
Our friend, the Salamander, left a comment that got me thinking. He asked what John A., were he alive today, would have said about Stephen Harper? That brought to mind…
The prime minister says he didn’t know. Nigel Wright says the prime minister didn’t know. Wright didn’t tell Harper. Perrin didn’t tell Harper. Woodcock and van Hemmen didn’t tell Harper…
Of the many dark farces of the Harper government, the best one is that there’ll be a full and fair environmental assessment of the Northern Gateway pipeline initiative and the…
