WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Bradley Manning “is the quintessential whistleblower” after a US military court found him not guilty of “aiding the enemy”, guilty of 19 lesser charges. The…
This guy wants to be the President of the United States. He is expected to be a candidate for the 2016 Presidential election. “Move over George W. Bush I am…
This post originally appeared on RingofFireRadio.com. On July 29th, an explosion at a gas plant in Tavares, Florida injured eight people, leaving five of them in critical condition. Three months…
Holyday isn’t going to lose any votes because of the scandal surrounding the truck behind him. But he might because of the guy to his left. Ontarians head to the…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bruce Livesey discusses how offshoring undermines government – and how it happens with the approval of those same governments claiming we can’t…
It is by-election day in Ontario. Five seats are up for grabs and if Tim Hudak and his Progressive Conservative’s don’t grab four of them one would think that he…
Someone told him about the Fall opening of Parliament.
Here, on the questions raised by a sudden drop in potash prices – and why we should reconsider our economic and social priorities so that a minor fluctuation in a…
The Ontario Legislature feeds on the politics of Ontario municipalities. You have to get under the skin of a number of key municipal politicians before you can fathom the directions…
To the surprise of everyone in the Ottawa bubble, Her Majesty’s Minister of State for Democratic Reform, Pierre Poilievre, held a press availability Wednesday not to slam the Liberals for…
Woot! Come on everyone! Woot with me! I just don’t “get” people who don’t get excited about elections. It is the one tangible time when we, as citizens, can choose…
A petition has been established at Change.org. seeking justice for Sammy Yatim. At last count it was closing in on 27,000 signatures. Here is how it reads: In the early…
Attended my very first condominium corp. AGM. People who knew told me it was going to be a freak show, and it was. Angry white men, incoherent mumblers, fact challenged…
A new initiative in Toronto is trying to help the local ecosystem and bring people closer to nature through canoes. Not by paddling, but by bringing bees and butterflies to…
Barack Obama has been signalling that the Keystone Pipeline is not all it’s cracked up to be. In a recent interview in the New York Times, he said that the…
Interested political observers and partisans will be looking at today’s by-elections here in Ontario to see what message the voters will be sending the Ontario Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne.…
She sprang from the cranium of Zeus himself, a divine thought found form, and a blessing unto the Gods, the philosophers of men, and the City of Athens. She was…
I've now seen all I need to see about the police execution of Sammy Yatim. Almost more than I can bear to watch. And like Rosie DiManno, more than enough…
