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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.
Rhys Kesselman, Canada Research Chair in Public Finance and a professor at Simon Fraser University’s School of Public Policy, has an op-ed in the Globe and Mail discussing the Harper…
A group of prominent Australians has published an open letter calling for a price on carbon to help deal with climate change. The letter is signed by four former Australians…
More and more hate crimes are being reported across the country, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In 2009, the number of hate crime reported in Canada went up…
To look at the fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador is to see as clear an example as one may find of the fundamental bankruptcy of the sort of old-fashioned politics…
I suppose it could be considered quite a coup for some, but probably not those who think they scored the points. Jack Layton and the NDP probably think they scored…
Well... the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste is at it again. A national anthem for the Québécois? Click below to hear it or click here for a look at the lyrics. I can't…
Just before midnight Tuesday, Canada Post issued a release saying it has locked out employees after 12 days of "increasingly costly and damaging" rotating strikes by the Canadian Union of…
President Obama is warning of one if the debt ceiling is not lifted. The American government will exceed its legislated debt ceiling of $14.3 trillion in August. Trillion. 14,300,000,000,000. Holy…
Here we go again. Nicholas Keung, immigration reporter with the Toronto Star reports that a Toronto family will be ripped apart by a Citizenship and Immigration Canada ruling that University…
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