TweetScrambling to fill $55 million in missing funding for the proposed Katz Group downtown arena, City Councillors voted last week to postpone any final vote on financing the project. Edmonton…
Commander Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut spending his last night aboard the International Space Station tonight, is a Canadian hero, a brilliant role model, and a representation of Canada on…
Watch Rafe Mair’s powerhouse speech on the upcoming BC election: “Christy Clark has on the side of her bus,’Debt Free BC’. We owe $171 Billion dollars! Since the Liberals came…
After last week’s speculation about an “ideal” election result, it is perhaps time to come down to Earth and realize that after a week of Christy Clark doing what she…
Once upon a time you could get into Montreal’s Jardin botanique for nothing, anytime. Then fees were added for the greenhouses, and for non-Montrealers who wanted to visit the outside…
Upshot: the anti-Justin Trudeau attack ads, which debuted in the Maritimes so as to get Peter Penashue his seat back, did not work. In fact, given that this is a…
Following a polling debacle in last year’s Alberta election and troubling signs in BC as voters prepare to cast their ballots, John King questions the motives and methods of pollsters…
From Kevin Logan, contributor to The Common Sense Canadian click here to read The New West Partnership Trade Agreement Part I states operating principles, including: ESTABLISH a comprehensive agreement on…
Barcelona is amazing. Some people suggested that five days here were too many, but we can barely fit in all the things we want to do – even though we…
A lot can change in politics over a four-year term, as British Columbians know all too well. Thankfully, the one thing citizens can count on is smart policy staying at…
Last big act of pointless violence in the USA was on Patriots Day, the Boston Marathon. Today the annual Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans was broken by a spree…
That’s D.C. for ya. I was listening to FOX Sports’ giving baseball score updates and the talent, I think it was Rob Dibble, pointed out that 1/19 people in Washington…
By: Crysbel Tejada and Betsy Catlin | First published by Waging Nonviolence on May 8, 2013: On cloudy days, heavy smoke fills the air of Ponca City, Okla., with grey…
There is such a thing as hill karma. It’s just an immutable fact. If you’re coming back to where you started, every metre of ascent will be returned unto you…
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Conrad Black, the Canadian media mogul and convicted felon* was in Calgary last week to have a “conversation” with the Calgary business elite (and me) over lunch at the Calgary…
For several years, both President Obama and Vice President Biden have been singing the praises of natural gas and hydraulic fracturing, claiming that the upcoming “cheap energy boom” would bring…
Last week we received a message from someone proporting to be Michell Erstikaitis. As the message is chock full of da krazy, we are going to assume that it is…
Because he doesn’t maintain his own blog yet offers blistering commentary that lacerates the pretensions of his subjects, I am once more placing as a guest post the searing analysis…
