Congrats to Victoria Mboko, winning the National Bank Open in Montreal tonight - outstanding, gutsy: Enfant Mboko et une jeune Andrescu. Deux Canadiennes 🇨🇦 à avoir gagné le Tournoi 🇨🇦…
Pro-Palestine activists rally at the Manitoba Legislative Building nearly one year after the attacks of October 7, 2023 attacks. Photo courtesy CTV News. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s oft-repeate...
Where’s the Alberta Energy “War Room” now that the United Conservative Party needs it? Yesterday The New York Times published a major feature story on Alberta’s burgeoning measles epidemic –…
You know how before the plastic bag ban came along to save us from the scourge of bags-of-bags stuffed into closets or drawers, to be maybe reused once as doggy-doo…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Sonya Angell examines the connection between extreme weather events caused by the climate breakdown and adverse health effects, while noting that there's a…
For decades, residents living in rural areas around eastern Ontario could tell they had mail delivered if the flag on their mailbox was up. Now, they’re being told Canada Post…
For decades, residents living in rural areas around eastern Ontario could tell they had mail delivered if the flag on their mailbox was up. Now, they’re being told Canada Post…
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I can't remember whether August has always been so bizarre -- maybe this craziness happens every year and we just forget all about it after school starts again. Maybe its…
A government lawyer will be in court today in Edmonton to intervene on behalf of a group that wants Alberta to separate from Canada. A letter yesterday from a Justice…
The real battle over the Carney government’s Bill C-5 will unfold not in courtrooms but on railroad tracks, forestry roads, at ports, and in cities across the country. Photo by…
We are, of course, doing it to ourselves. Warming up the planer that is. To... The post The ICC: the law embraces environmental science first appeared on Views from the…
What Every Caregiver Should Know About Clinical Trials for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Many regular visitors here in the Caregivers' Living Room will know that I am a passionate supporter of…
What Every Caregiver Should Know About Clinical Trials for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Many regular visitors here in the Caregivers' Living Room will know that I am a passionate supporter of…
I have been watching Godzilla films since the late 1950s or early ’60s, when the edited American version (1956) of the 1954 Japanese original was released and was finally shown…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The University of Oxford has released new research showing that politicians underestimate the public's demand for climate action. Adam Morton discusses how Australia's Labor…
The state legislature in Texas tried to pass a bill to redistrict the state to gerrymander five more Republican congressmen for next year’s mid-term elections.
Just a few commentaries tonight, mainly about how well Carney is dealing with Trump and the tariffs, as the American economy begins to collapse. Guy Lawson / Rolling Stone Why…
The Kumtor mine is one of the largest gold mines in Central Asia. Photo courtesy the Kumtor Gold Company. When Kyrgyzstan nationalized the Kumtor gold mine in 2021, citing environmental…
A Ford Motor Company employee at the Oakville Assembly Plant. Photo by Sam VarnHagen/Flickr. From the outset of the trade war, the United States has imposed tariffs in order to…
