Keep True, NDP
Howard Pawley was elected to the Manitoba legislature in 1969 and served as a cabinet minister in the first NDP government of Manitoba. For most of the 1980s, he governed…
Keep True, NDP
Howard Pawley was elected to the Manitoba legislature in 1969 and served as a cabinet minister in the first NDP government of Manitoba. For most of the 1980s, he governed…
What Happens When the Shale Boom Goes Boom?
Recent headlines in the US press about the coming economic boom heralded by the shale gas revolution would lead you to think we are literally swimming in oil. A spate…
What Happens When the Shale Boom Goes Boom?
Recent headlines in the US press about the coming economic boom heralded by the shale gas revolution would lead you to think we are literally swimming in oil. A spate…
Canadian Food Inspection Agency Should Be Investigated For Fraud
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger What the hell is going on with the C.F.I.A ? The very agency that is charged with protecting our food sources is in fact conflicted over the…
Soccer, Sikhs and multiculturalism in Quebec
Quebec’s Soccer Federation is going into hiding. The names and contact information of its board of directors have been pulled from the federation’s website. They’re refusing to talk to the…
D.C. Court Rules Against Environmental Transparency, Threatening Public Health and Democracy
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that trade deals can be exempted from federal disclosure laws. The case revolved around a classified…
Conditional sentence for an offence of violence
R. v. Pottie, 2013 NSCA 68 deals with the often vexed question of a conditional discharge for a violent offence. The Criminal Code provides: 730. (1) Where an accused, other…
Why Mandela Is So Important
Although I have only made reference to him three other times in this blog, Nelson Mandela is a person who I revere like no other. And of course, I am…
Joni Mitchell In Focus with Jian Ghomeshi – An In Depth Interview
Here is a Q special and North American broadcast exclusive with Joni Mitchell. Jian interviewed the music legend last week at her home in Los Angeles. The result is an…
Naked and Transparent
Oh boy, you just have to love the irony of our backwards society; an NSA whistleblower exposé of the global surveillance grid and a new friendlier police-hugs Bilderberg meeting. You…
Corporate Hypocrites Gone Wild: Syncrude Edition
Let’s say that you’re one of the world’s largest producers of synthetic crude and also Canada’s largest single-source producer of crude derived from oil sands. Imagine that you are also…
More Senate talk on Sun News
I’m no fan of Mac Harb’s but his residency issue is quite different from what Tory senators Duffy, Wallin and Brazeau are currently dealing with. Read what Harb has to…
PRISM: NSA Watching the Innocent
Technology and civil liberty experts knew PRISM was a very real possibility. I knew, and wrote about it last August. The National Security Agency (NSA) (star bad guy org. in…
Mental Health: Anti-stigma campaigns produce unintended consequences
There is no question that stigma is an obstacle to those seeking help for mental illness. The question is, once mental illness is accepted in the same way as any…
Little Super Men
Or, Twin Terrors? I say that with love, of course. The little boys in this clip are my nephews and the very patient woman, my baby sister. The twins, who…
The Open Road
Right now, the government awards road-building contracts to large construction companies. But imagine the government decided to end these contracts, and to simply grant anyone who wanted to build a…