Produced by the Canadian Media Guild, an OpenMedia.ca Network Member TORONTO. Stuck covering the deadline for the transition to digital TV and not sure where to start? Here are the…
Liberals have a golden opportunity to shape the contours of our politics for the next decade by involving themselves in the NDP leadership selection process.They can do this by talking…
Yesterday I got a few books in the mail. I got the five volumes of Our Village by Mary Mitford about whom I am writing a book. It is a…
Remember all that macho b.s. that G W Bush (and Stephen Harper) said about not "cutting and running" in Afghanistan? We were gonna fight to the end - for truth,…
It appears the ONDP is slowly becoming the only choice to stop a Conservative government. Progressives and strategic voters take notice. For Progressives, the ONDP is the only authentically progressive…
This afternoon I rode over from Bridlewood, via the Trans-Canada Trail, Huntmar Drive and Old Carp Road, to the South March Highlands K2 trailhead to put up posters for the…
The sentences for this type of offence have been steadily rising. Just a few years ago this would have not meant Federal time. http://bit.ly/od0kur
This is how the country would be run:We're now hearing that Christine O'Donnell has been re-expelled from the Iowa Tea Party-palooza event.For those keeping score at home. She was invited,…
Landmark II Inc. v. 1535709 Ontario Limited, 2011 ONCA 567 is a construction lien case that deals with a number of issues including the need formally to elect among remedies. The Court holds:…
He might be the world's foremost climate scientist. NASA Goddard Space Laboratory director, Dr. James Hansen was arrested outside the White House today while protesting against the Athabasca Tar Sands…
Plains Midstream Canada no longer provides web updates regarding the percentage of oil that has been recovered from the Rainbow Pipeline leak site. Plains Midstream Canada has only recovered 49%…
A writer friend just asked me if I were going to the ceremony for journalist and novelist Gil Courtemanche who died two days before Jack Layton did and whose farewell…
Following up on my earlier post, let's add a few more possible NDP leadership candidates to the mix based on suggestions (here and elsewhere) as well as media reports on…
Yeah, can anyone honestly say they didn't expect this? I can't.Who would think to name him director of communications, though? He can barely writeAddendum:Actually, I take that back. Angelo has…
Somehow, I'm sure this proves that the NDP can't hope to hold its public support now that Jack Layton isn't around to lead it into the next election.
The Guardian has an interesting piece by Ewan Morrison on the end of publishing, and the rise of "free." Worth reading if you're a "content creator" or a reader.
A wacky British "Earth-cooling" project that has the flavour of mad science or a '50s comic has attracted negative reaction from around the globe, including Canada. A group of British…
The problem with horse-race reporting and an alternative approach. - srbp -
On the question of the mooted Liberal-NDP merger, I don't have much interest in the question directly. The main thing it says to me is, you know the Liberals are…
As far as I know, I was the first person to note the possible connection between Norwegion mass murderer Anders Brievik and Ex EDL (English Defense League) leader Paul Ray.…
