Murray Dobbins weighs in on our prime minister’s obvious contempt for democracy. Investment is always portrayed as a good thing, period. It creates jobs, increases tax revenues, grows the economy.…
The toxic mess left in the wake of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster continues to negatively impact Gulf Coast ecosystems as the second phase of the BP trial begins…
I remember that day, in 1963. I was in high school. Penmanship class, after lunch. I think it was the last year for penmanship in Ontario high school, but even…
Some last-minute arm twisting persuaded the South Korea government to overturn the decision to buy modified Boeing F-15 Stealth Eagles in favour of Lockheed’s overdue, overpriced and under-performing F-35. But…
Dear former Liberal comrades, there’s your problem. You’re so profoundly skewed that you anointed a guy like Count Michael Ignatieff your leader. A guy who travels in circles where ‘most…
Here are your daily news links: Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill Working On New NSA Revelations (Huffington Post) Did anyone notice their offered plans simultaneously get worse AND more expensive this…
One of the most influential books I’ve read in the past couple years was Steven Pinker’s Better Angels of our Nature. In it, he attempts first to build the case…
It’s never been a big secret that lurking just underneath the surface of Canada’s right wing politics is a religiously-inspired vein of racism. It reared its head back in the…
R. v. Stewart, 2013 ONCA 579: As to sentence, in our view, the trial judge made several errors in principle. She exceeded the sentence sought by the Crown by a…
Efforts to defend the separation of church and state in English Canada are already suffering as Quebec’s Charter of Secularism Values is used to argue that secularism is “exclusionary” or…
$1.3B medical marijuana free market coming to Canada New system will use large indoor marijuana farms certified by RCMP The Canadian Press Posted: Sep 29, 2013 3:52 PM ET Last…
Is it just me, or do politicians seem like televangelists these days? I’m starting to regret subscribing to the websites of various parties. Everyday my Inbox has more appeals for…
That is something coming from the conservative government – especially Harper regime. The Conservative government is launching a $1.3-billion free market in medical marijuana this Tuesday, eventually providing an expected…
I’ll save the blooper for the end. It’s a real collector’s item. The only international news story is one from Kenya, “Last body in morgue identified after mall attack.” Now,…
The benefits of organic farming keep revealing themselves – it turns out that the soil itself benefits from farmers growing organic crops. “Farmers interested in transitioning to organic production will…
And he finds us to be “real rough around the edges punk rock, bursting with angst, enthusiasm and youthful naiveté”! Sounds about right. His bit on us is here. Oh,…
I haven’t seen this reported elsewhere (so perhaps I am way off base) but I think the new statement of climate sensitivity in the IPCC AR5 represents some real good…
It’s time for the Ministry of Health to look at the root causes behind the violence and injuries that are taking place in the province’s hospitals that provide mental health…
While the 2015 federal election is a long ways off (if Stephen Harper actually sticks to his fixed election date law, that is), in a sign of the strength and…
