The Harper Government’s Legacy of Death
Checking my blog archive, I found that I have written a total of 22 posts on asbestos. Here is number 23. Two years ago, Canada was the sole nation to…
Checking my blog archive, I found that I have written a total of 22 posts on asbestos. Here is number 23. Two years ago, Canada was the sole nation to…
“When Joe Clark’s portrait was unveiled in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Stephen Harper skipped the event, a classless act of petty personal vindictiveness.” – Jeffrey Simpson’s column in…
Tha’s the sell line of the National Rifle Association, the good people who provide hours of programming to American TV stations and networks.The Columbine Massacre, Aurora Theatre Massacre and Sandy…
Normally “Conventional JP-8 jet fuel costs $3.73 a gallon, according to the Defense Logistics Agency.”The Washington Examiner tells all that even though times are tough financially in the States “……
One of my very favorite writers is an obscure Englishman named Edward Verrall Lucas, usually known in print simply as E.V. Lucas. Lucas was the author of over a hundred…
In a recent interview with The Globe and Mail, Al Gore referred to something he called The Resource Curse: The so-called resource curse is most often understood in the context…
After closely following the decline of our democracy for more more than 4 years and posting over 200 articles at Democracy Under Fire detailing just a few of the ways…
Update-3 I am doing something I’ve never done before and re-writing my entire post on the Syria explosion, without providing the original. Why? You might be asking. This blog doesn’t…
We even drove past the comic book store today and saw a bunch of people in costume, but we still forgot that today was Star Wars Day because May the…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Adrian Dix has challenged Christy Clark to state her position on Enbridge, Kinder Morgan expansion and a huge increase in oil tanker traffic in Burrard Inlet, one…
It is the official Mexican National Day of Southern California. And the State of Pueblo. Still it is a proper reason to drink and that is always a good thing.…
It is the official Mexican National Day of Southern California. And the State of Pueblo. Still it is a proper reason to drink and that is always a good thing.…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Environmental issues rank at or near the top for the first time in BC’s history. This could well be the difference when the Provincial Election…
The precise moment at which Thomas Mulcair became unfit to be prime minister of Canada is hard to pin down. It arguably came in 2005, when his party adopted what…
Independent economist and Common Sense Canadian contributor Erik Andersen’s open letter to the leaders of BC’s four major political parties on the eve of the May 14 provincial election. “On…
In the very few weeks since Justin Trudeau was elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, there have been some pretty big things going on. I guess the most…
There’s an article put out by The Economist a couple of days ago which is causing all kinds of debate. It raises the question of what’s seen as a bit…
The Queen of the Wingnuts has weighed in on getting turfed by the York Region Cops from her speaking engagement at the Chabad Flamingo Synagogue. Naturally, she is unhappy about…