From the Grand Riverkeepers news release: HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, LABRADOR, NL – “The Review Panel’s report reflects what we have been saying all along,” said Clarice Blake Rudkowski, president…
When former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher met Conrad Black for the first time, he chewed her ear off about crime, with typical "hang 'em high" rhetoric. She knew she…
In this morning's New York Times, Paul Krugman again has the modern Republican Party in his sights. I say "modern" because, traditionally, Republicans have been noted for sober common sense.…
OpenMedia.ca will be meeting with Industry Minister Christian Paradis via teleconference on September 8, 2011, and we want to know what you would like discussed. Please fill out our survey…
Whenever I read or hear another right-winger whine about the CBC or the 'liberal media', I laugh out loud. Witness CBC's Mark Gollom's propaganda on behalf of Alykhan Velshi and…
Wow -- back to school again! Where did the summer go???
It is somewhat heartening that the Toronto police board, which has traditionally enjoyed harmonious relations with the Toronto Police, is showing a bit of spine.As reported in today's Star, the…
Here are today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Poetic lawyer pleads case with verse - Ottawa Citizen -http://goo.gl/7OG08Teacher Allowed to Sue Software Company for Sending Her Explicit Photos…
Yesterday, 144 protesters were taken away in police vans from the front of the White House, bringing the total number of people arrested for peacefully expressing their opposition to the…
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has released the results of a study on the impact of rising tuition fees in Ontario. The study shows that in 1990, a middle-income…
It's not as if NASCAR is a southern whites-only affair but it speaks volumes when five crackers snub Obama. It's his policies they don't like. Honest."President Barack Obama will honor…
In the final post of our 20-part video tip series for first year students, fourth-year psychology student Aleka Maclellan discusses campus resources for those having difficulty adjusting to life at…
“I have London on the line, sir.” “What do they want?” “They’re asking about the penguins.” “The penguins?” “Yes, remember, penguins is the codeword . . .” “For what?!” “You…
Interesting development on the "not a chance in hell" merger idea, as the CAW President weighs in: The president of the Canadian Autoworkers Union has written to NDP MPs to…
Yes, just, yes.Pick out the most left-leaning NDP leader you can think of, and Libby Davies is still farther left. She makes Andrea Horwath look like Mike Harris (or does…
The scientific advances of the last century - and even of that last ten years - have been dizzying. The ability to turn ordinary skin cells into stem cells that…
Worthwhile piece in the Post:http://natpo.st/q3Vh14 "This is probably enough triumphalism for now. The rebels' ultimate success (and short term success at that) doesn't invalidate the wide variety of criticism that…
The following article was one that I originally wrote for the September, 2010 issue of Outlooks magazine. It talks about my wedding last year, and although I’ve now already celebrated…
When the three posts on the provincial Conservatives’ communications strategy first appeared here in August and September 2006, people who had never heard of it thought the ideas were preposterous.…
