Recently, Preston Manning wrote a column outlining the results of an extensive poll done for the Manning Centre for Building Democracy. The poll was designed with the intention of better…
Today’s Statscan release “Incomes of Canadians” provides data for 2009 and a partial reading on the impacts of the recession. (I say partial because the 2008 annual average data were…
There are plenty of countries where it's no blessing to be born female but there are some where it's bloody awful. The worst, the very worst country is - why…
FBI to Expand Domestic Surveillance Powers as Details Emerge of Its Spy Campaign Targeting ActivistsCivil liberties advocates are raising alarm over news the FBI is giving agents more leeway to…
Those goddamned Yankees! Far right Republican jackass, Senator Mitch McConnell, says the federal government is at war in the South again. "They have declared war, war on Kentucky's coal industry."…
In light of the suggestion the provincial government needs a blue ribbon panel of experts to decide how to safeguard the provincial economic future, take a look at what is…
Today's leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:Exclusive: Judge Bars Woman From Suing Over Faulty Google Map - http://goo.gl/6cH1m Justice Department Accused of ‘Reckless Technique’ -http://goo.gl/iBBrMQueen of S&M talks…
Good read on the Conservative and oil companies war on indigenous peoples.
this one's a doozy...from dawg's blawg...Extreme? Consider: if I feed you poison, drop by drop, day by day, knowing full well that eventually you could die an excruciating death, what…
As many of you know, we at OpenMedia.ca recently released a comprehensive report that establishes the need for the principle of openness to guide digital policy in Canada. We had…
who are struggling with what it means to be Black, African, socially/historically/politically conscious and sexual.from fahuma books and pambazuka press...‘African Sexualities’ is a groundbreaking new volume, forthcoming from Pambazuka Press.…
SONReport_Globe.png WHO: Reilly Yeo - Reilly Yeo is the Managing Director of OpenMedia.ca and editor of the report Casting an Open Net: A Leading-Edge Approach to Canada’s Digital Future. ...
It's the big Canucks game day and all so people are likely not going to be very interested in Canadian politics. But some big things are happening that bear mentioning.…
The Hill Times reports this morning that the axe has begun to fall. Tony Clement, the Minister of Austerity, has declared that the government plans to chop $10.4 billion from…
There is very little to add to this. It's obvious. The GOP's view of race and women have been rarely been exposed so clearly. I'm not shitting you. This is…
Extreme? Consider: if I feed you poison, drop by drop, day by day, knowing full well that eventually you could die an excruciating death, what does that make me? These…
I suppose the scariest thing about being Liberal these days is the underlying anxiety that we no longer control our own destiny, at least to a certain extent. Truth of…
New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch has joined the campaign for marriage equality in New York State in a new video released Monday (below) in which he states: "As an…
...or, to put it more bluntly, of selling out. But its a good thing. Some of the nutty language in its constitution does nothing but provide fodder for Tory attack…
The Vowels: A Film by Ken Burns from Sam Cherington on Vimeo. Genius parody, via Brain Picker. Alltop makes love to Ashokan Farewell.
