Apparently, a majority government has changed the Conservative’s attitudes towards China: Canada’s relationship with China will be the “centrepiece” of its Asian diplomatic ties, said Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird…
The Fraser Institute has released a new report on healthcare, and as usual, it’s a whopper. They claim that we should get rid of price controls because our system provides…
James posted this in comments yesterday, but it deserves its own thread: Top Five Ford Lies. If you haven't seen it yet, please go read.Of course, politicians with a privatization…
Sometimes real "change"- not the phony word of political convenience- occurs, of a variety that is hard to completely fathom whilst in the midst. Ontario is smack dab in the…
"The Little Match Girl" is one of those Hans Christian Andersen stories that wrench the heart: the poor little match seller outside a grand residence dies of cold after slowly…
Paul Evans Aidoo, Minister for the Western Region of Ghana, has reportedly tasked Ghana’s Bureau of National Investigations and security forces to immediately round up and arrest all gays and…
February 29, 1933, Capipi Bumonsis I sense the voyage is about to come to an end. The customs agents here are strange men. Their beards are not mellow, but wild…
I suspect that the voting will be fairly tough for Kate’s FENCES theme, as all the pics look excellent to me. Very often by the time I post I already…
2011 Federal ElectionIt's a much more colourful place from previous elections. See the 2008 map, by contrast:2008 Federal ElectionThanks to Blunt Objects for posting links last night to the above…
...says lawyer up if you don't like law. Also, the CPoC is still officially against section 13. Not that the government plans to act.
I must admit that I had never heard Ann Coulter speak, but have read many of the things she has written. Certainly no intellectual, but if I understand correctly, she…
Public life in Newfoundland and Labrador remains as fundamentally undemocratic as it ever was. Paternalism remains the order of the day. As three sitting members of the House revealed, they…
In case you haven’t noticed, it’s sweltering in the Nation’s Capital, which is probably what’s smothering the news cycle. At least, here in Canada, anyway.What’s that? The federal government is…
An aboriginal-led lawsuit is the latest potential roadblock for the highly controversial South Fraser Perimeter Road - an 80 km four-lane truck highway from Deltaport to Surrey in the early…
One of the most common types of fan mail we receive here on the blog from boneheads takes the form of challenging us to debates. Invariably, these challenges are poorly…
More than 200 dedicated Liberal Party supporters piled into Edmonton’s Santa Maria Centre yesterday evening to hear candidates for their party’s leadership speak and answer questions. I attended and…
Jonathan Huckabay and Raj Sherman at a Liberal leadership all-candidates’ meeting in Edmonton Wednesday night. Below: Government Whip Robin Campbell.“When in doubt, tell the truth,” Mark Twain famously advised. “It…
Narrative plus photos, maps, and what not now posted here. A lovely trip although I clearly didn't travel far enough and had too much time to write.
