Tuesday is Budget Day ...and Canada can expect a shitshow -- screeds about imaginary taxes, tales of woe, gasps of horror, hand-wringing, pearl-clutching... The Conservatives' budgetary demands include fiction. There…
About 1000 people joined the Webinar flowing out of the Elbows Up Summit. If you weren’t one of the 1000 here’s a recording of the hour long discussion. Have a…
Canada’s National Observer as seen that journalists are feeling the years of budgets cuts and the lack of institutional supports and decided to do something about it. The National Observer…
I've hit a weird anniversary that I'm not sure what to do with: thirty years in the same place. It seems significant because it's double any other place I've ever…
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- A.R. Moxon writes about the need to restore the capacity for shame as a precondition to reversing the decline of the U.S. Noah Berlatsky…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 3, 2025 from Wise Law on Twitter:Leaked files reveal CRA refunded millions by mistake Province defunds Toronto’s last supervised…
Who speaks for Canada? Ontario’s Doug Ford does. Manitoba’s Wab Kinew does. B.C.’s David Eby does. So do many of the other provincial Premiers. Prime Minister Mark Carney? Well, let’s…
Federal CCF Caucus, 1942. Left to right, Tommy Douglas, George Castleden, Angus MacInnis, Clarie Gillis, Joe Noseworthy, Sandy Nicholoson, and Percy Wright. Photo courtesy Library and Archives Canada. ...
If you led a majority government and were riding high in the polls, what would you do with your power? Would you have a vision for a better future for…
With the United States government now shut down for a full month while Republicans take away food assistance and medicare from vast swaths of the American population, Donald Trump has…
View on Threads Canada is sunk in gloom tonight - it was so close, and everyone wanted it so much. But the Blue Jays proved themselves to be Canada's team…
Photo by Ben Sutherland/Flickr The following is an excerpt from Targeting Libya: How Canada went from building public works to bombing an oil-rich country and creating chaos for ...
Now that Premier Danielle Smith’s favourite foreign autocrat appears to be on the brink of transforming himself from a successful “peace candidate” into a war president, it would behoove folks…
This is an opinion column about baseball and politics, which are two very different things. For starters, baseball has one moral dimension. Politics, too often, has no morality at all.…
This post is written from a Canadian perspective. Deep state is a term used for (real or imagined) potential, unauthorized and often secret networks of power operating within a government…
Henry V - to the troops: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more .................show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth…
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