ObamaKXL_beach_200x167_0.gif The New York Times editorial today calls on the State Department and President Obama to reject the disastrous Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which it correctly label...
Thursdays are "garbage day" in my area of Toronto. That reference should not be taken as disparaging the day before the day before the weekend, however. Rather, it's simply the…
Proving that one Ford is as dangerous (and dumb) as the other, Doug Ford claims that there are more libraries than Tim Hortons in his area. He also wrongly said…
Ed Martin dismisses the idea that natural gas might be a sensible replacement for burning Bunker C at Holyrood. Here’s the whole story from VOCM in the event they disappear…
At last count before the event started, the RSVP on Facebook claimed that about 900+ people would be attending the ride to ‘Save Jarvis.’ But like anyone who has thrown…
What do FOX News and North Korea have in common? Possibly, quite a bit.Rupert Murdoch's American crown jewel apparently has a very dark underbelly, at least according to Dan Cooper,…
Bit of a headache, narcopresidentes? Maybe you should start drinking coca tea, I hear it’s good for that. The merry pranksters of the Internets have been very busy boys (and…
Crossposted at opencanada.org’s Dispatch blog I find that the subject of women’s rights in Afghanistan is a difficult one to engage with. To some, the shocking standard to which women…
Crossposted at opencanada.org’s Dispatch blog I just had a conversation regarding my last post with a NATO Public Diplomacy official. In short, my argument was that in RC-N the ANP…
Crossposted at opencanada.org’s Dispatch blog I am writing this on my phone from a c160 flying from mazar e sharif to herat where we have spent the past 48hrs. This…
Crossposted at opencanada.org’s Dispatch blog I am in Afghanistan as part of a NATO TOLA tour. On Friday the six participants met in Brussels for a day of briefings at…
Crossposted at opencanada.org’s Disptach blog For the past few years I have worked on the Munk Debates. Officially, I am the Research Director. Unofficially, I help out however I can…
Crossposted at opencanada.org’s Dispatch blog Last fall, I participated in a workshop hosted by L’Idée Fédérale, a think tank in Montreal headed by one of our Roundtable bloggers, André Pratte.…
For the past eight months I have had the thrill of working with the CIC to answer the following question: what if the CIC wanted to build the online hub…
In Di Tomaso v. Crown Metal Packaging Canada LP, 2011 ONCA 469, a decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal released June 22, 2011, the appellant, Crown Metal Packaging ("CMP")…
Statistics Canada has just released their ‘Police-reported crime statistics in Canada, 2010’ report (link). And it supports what many have been saying for some time: Police-reported crime reaches its lowest…
With the campaign fully underway I have not had much time at all to write new blog posts. I'll try to get back in the habit of once a week…
David Cameron and Rupert Murdoch and all their minions are running a PR campaign on the News International scandal, telling people to keep it "in perspective." It's not really a…
Still more signs PDO lives in the past ...Thanks to an old pal.
Well this article is an interesting addition to the swirl of debate and exposé that's happening around Rupert Murdoch. The attached article is from J-Wire and is written by Isi…
