Global Warming
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Orvieto
If you get a chance to bop around Italy, don’t overlook the villages and towns outside the major well known ones. Orvieto was on our route, so we planned a…
Liberal Party Fact Check: Search and Rescue #nlpoli
What is it about politicians in Newfoundland and Labrador and search and rescue? Seriously. Newly minted Liberal MHA Lisa Dempster issued a news release on Thursday about rumoured changes at…
American Healthcare and inequality
If you’re employed and especially if you’re rich then you can get all kinds of healthcare services. If an employed and rich person’s kidney, lungs or heart fail, a new…
On factory families
Sure, some are responding to the Fraser Institute’s “study” on the costs of child-rearing with mockery and/or outrage. But in fairness, let’s acknowledge that the study’s validity simply depends on…
New column day
Here, on how the two Con appointees at the centre of Stephen Harper’s Senate are exactly the two who should have known better than to abuse the public trust. For…
Help Me Support Team Fox
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a degenerative disorder that impacts a person’s motor skills and often PD can impact mental functions. PD is in no way a good thing and that’s…
Constable Stefanie Trudeau
Given Sammy Yatim’s tragic execution by police for swearing at them and holding a penknife, and the shooting in the back of the unarmed Steve Mesic in Hamilton, I suppose…
The Founding Fathers Would Weep
Chris Hedges writes that, with the sentencing of Bradley Manning, the United States is now a penal colony: There are strict rules now in our American penal colony. If we…
Drug wars
The Liberal standard bearer has tried pot a few times and doesn’t drink coffee. Two of the top Conservative icons, meanwhile, haven’t sued anyone for stating one of them smokes…
How to tell if the publisher is angry.
The best gauge newspaper people have to tell the publisher’s mood is by the placement of his signed editorials. If it is on the editorial page, he probably has just…
Sad day
I am taking Daughter and Son One to Boston today. They are flying back to Toronto. Son One is starting hockey camp, and daughter is going to be packing for…
US Tar Sands Operations Challenged By Grassroots Opposition
While many environmental advocates urge consumers to buy local, in this case, local isn’t always better. While the Canadian tar sands are more notorious, developments here in the US are…
The Value of Controversy and Colleagues
Over the past few days, one American political science blog has been at the centre of a pretty hot controversy about a post on the value of networking for younger…
Perry Farrell On Concealed Carry
Not particularly progressive sentiments, and the orange hair is of its time, as they say. Nevertheless, Porno For Pyros could bring the same fire as Jane’s Addiction without so many…
Stephen Harper and the Great Squirrel Tour
OMG. When my special satellite feed of Stephen Harper's Great Escape Tour came in tonight I must admit I was shocked. For there was Great True North Warrior Big Oil…
The Real Crime of Bradley Manning
I suppose it could have been worse. He could have got sixty years, he got thirty-five. Thirty-five years for telling the truth, blowing the whistle on war crimes. Among the…
Queue-jumping inquiry report surely wounds Alberta Liberal Leader Raj Sherman
Wildrose Opposition Leader Danielle Smith, looking for all the world like a future premier, lands a few easy punches on the government after the release yesterday of the health care…
Queue-jumping report quashes another Tory scandal
TweetOver the past eight months, Premier Alison Redford‘s Tories have been quickly dispatching the handful of scandals and allegations that dogged them and robbed them of their political agenda throughout…