The "negotiations" surrounding raising the debt limit in the United States is a particularly poignant example of the oh-too-funny-if-not-so-serious circus of partisan, brinkmanship showboating that dominants so much of American…
BY JAMES MORTON, OTTAWA CITIZEN JULY 12, 2011 Recent cases in Canada and the United States have caused an uproar because parents apparently guilty of murdering their children have been…
The last couple of weeks on the Plateau, as the house near readiness. It is very hot, and the apartment is hotter, but at least we can get up on…
In an article published in Al Arabiya, Melody Moezzi, an Iranian-American Muslim writer and attorney from Chicago has come out in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights, stating:The…
If you want to know the state of the relationship between democratically elected governments of the West and the multinational corporations, all you have to do is look at the…
I have always thought that Churchill was right when he said that, "the United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative" I was a graduate…
January 22, 1978 It appears that in the future, the world is inhabited by a strange race of bird people. I am a happy fellow indeed! Lok-laach-do is my boon…
Apparently, his decision was made last month, but done in so low key a fashion that nobody in the MSM noticed. Meanwhile, Mr. Blackett has issued a ringing defense of…
Are vaccines the cause for a spike in autism? Recent research from an independent physician shows that there might be a link.
The ongoing scandal in the UK involving media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is making waves everywhere.His stock prices are on the decline and citizens are beginning to mobilize against him.AVAAZ has…
“In making “Viva Riva!,” I wanted to find a new way to talk about life in Kinshasa today to describe how my hometown works and how it doesn’t work."
Kathy Dunderdale showed up in the province again to talk about the wonderful reception her Muskrat Falls megadebt project got from the New England governors. Two things stood out right…
If you think NAFTA is bad, just wait until you see what is being proposed in negotiations for The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). CETA is a far-reaching…
I know we’re all playing the Champlain Bridge drinking game at this point, but here it goes. The government received a report on the state of the bridge – which…
Three generations of The Firm’s directors, in their boardroom. (Grabbed from the Internet, obviously.) Below them: The unfortunate King John, the even more unfortunate King Charles, and Wallis Simpson, an…
I would not be in every newspaper in the world this morning.KTLA News 8:55 p.m. CDT, July 12, 2011MORENO VALLEY, Calif. -- Police in Moreno Valley say they have arrested…
Fighting for Bike Lanes at Toronto City Hall: Pt. I « the reeves reportEarlier today, Mayor Rob Ford voted against all the community grants, while council voted unanimously to continue…
Like every other musicial performance in your capital: the best ever.A zillion acts and all of them have been the best ever according to the two English papers, well, more…
First, we learned that yet another W.E.B. affiliated (perhaps formerly so) bonehead is in jail. Marcus Gamble (who turned 18 just a few days ago apparently) was in jail for…
