Recently, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said: "Canada is emerging as a destination of choice for Chinese investment and Chinese investors and we welcome that". He didn't go into specifics…
Just ask Stephanie and Kimberly Tepper. They have been forced to write the Queen to take action to help free their father Henk Tepper, the New Brunswick farmer stuck in…
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House on the Canada-U.S. Border http://ow.ly/5vrsV Filed under: Miscellany
Things have been awfully serious in here the last few days. So it’s time to stoop once again to outright theft from the late W.S. Gilbert. One half of one…
Statistics Canada figures indicate that private non-financial corporations held $471 billion of cash in the first quarter of 2011 ($322 billion of Canadian currency plus $149 billion worth of foreign…
http://bit.ly/lxY4DS The Indignati are not stupid, and are well aware of two salient points. First, the 'bailouts', as they are always called, are no such thing. Taxpayer-funded capital injections into…
People are scratching their heads over why presidential candidate Herman Cain's Iowa staff resigned. Most are a little less perplexed by the defection of Newt Gingrich's staff. Michele Bachmann and…
The Lucasville 5 are five prisoners who were framed for the murder of snitches and guards in the 1993 Lucasville prison riot. The 1993 riot and hostage taking was one…
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I, Scene iv
‘Don’t worry, this guy has a lot of money. I know what I’m doing.’There has been no shortage of supposedly progressive bloggers who were more than ready to assume Dominique…
We decided to get out of town for few days – traffic was brutal yesterday but side roads helped – for some R & R. And we must’ve needed it,…
There is a common thread in wrongful convictions -- a lack of disclosure. If we want to avoid sending the innocent to jail (here for nearly three decades) we cannot…
This past week, the Toronto chapter of the War Resisters Support Campaign hosted a fundraising dinner at the United Steelworkers Hall. These dinners, which we hold four times a year,…
Miscellaneous material for your weekend reading.- Janice Kennedy highlights the consequences of turning back the clock 80 years when it comes to collective bargaining rights:In the world of Stephen Harper…
Many progressives have been harsh towards Conrad Black, the fraud who has been convicted of multiple charges despite a phalanx of lawyers and friends in high places. He really is…
Due to the recent strike, i only received this letter dated June 13 a few days ago:i was given an indeterminate SHU term in 1989, for being a threat to…
Now that is true dedication to democracy. People are dying to vote.Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyVirginia has passed a law that if a…
The free world was shocked when Dominique Strauss Kahn was charged with sexual assault a few weeks back. But now, DSK's bail conditions have been significantly relaxed after the Manhattan…
The Fraser Institute’s latest propaganda piece is Access Delayed, Access Denied, an attempt to solve the very real problem of delayed access to important new medications in Canada by bogus…
