Not your grandfather’s lake boat: powerful, modern “wake boats” kick up waves and protest All across Canada, Canadian communities, mostly small, face great difficulties in trying to establish regulations regarding…
Ottawa, September 9, 2013 – The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) today released its decision concerning comments made about “Gypsies” on Sun News Network. During his program The Source, Ezra…
You can take the homicidal gun nut out of the justice system… George Zimmerman’s estranged wife called police officers to her father’s house in Florida Monday, saying the former neighborhood…
Zimmerman got away with murder of Trayvon Martin and gun has become a little toy for him. Joe Burbank / Pool via AP file “Florida police are investigating a dispute…
Russia asked Syria to put chemical weapons stockpile under international control and Assad has agreed to that. Will that stop U.S. strike against Syria? “Syria welcomes a Russian proposal to…
Have environmental priorities finally trumped extreme right wing politics in the deep south? Louisiana’s Republican governor Bobby Jindal has heard enough from oil giant BP, taking them to task recently…
You can take the homicidal gun nut out of the justice system… George Zimmerman’s estranged wife called police officers to her father’s house in Florida Monday, saying the former neighborhood…
Russia has announced a plan to put Syrian government chemical weapons under the control of international monitors who will then destroy them. The proposal apparently is acceptable to Assad provided…
Michelle Bachmann links Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood with 9/11.
A former parliamentary law clerk can’t see what possible benefit flowed from Nigel Wright’s $90,000 under the table payment to senator Mike Duffy and, accordingly, based on what he can’t…
Globalization as we have come to know and love it is misnamed. As it advantages corporations while disadvantaging workers and governments, it might more appropriately be called corporatization or some…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Good morning folks, Like many of you I spend a lot of time on computers, but am not all that savvy in many of the technical aspects.…
Robert McChesney, a communications theorist at Illinois, has written previously on the consolidation of American news media, and (more recently, with John Bellamy Foster) the mechanics of global capitalism. Here…
What HuffPo has done has inspired me. Along with my own previously-posted comment rules, here’s a new one: if I see a handle I don’t recognize – and particularly if…
Cartoon by Greg Perry. This cartoon says it all.
…the rest gets pretty heavy. On Saturday, Aurelle Pare, who always writes an excellent column on health, wrote one on an ear problem called tinnitus. It causes ringing in the…
Kutlesa v. Kutlesa, 2013 ONCA 549: There is a threshold problem today, however: Mr. Kotsiou was not, and is not, a party to the Family Law Actproceeding between the Kutlesas…
…like much else they do. What a colossal farce.
Today, finance minister Jim Flaherty announced a three-year freeze on Employment Insurance (EI) premiums, ostensibly because a stronger job market has alleviated the need for additional premium revenue. Under the…
