At this year’s Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association, Armine Yalnizyan gave a presentation entitled “Surviving the Recovery: The Distribution of Canadian Household Debt.” The panel was co-sponsored by…
Unbelievably, the UN Security Council is poised to remove senior Taliban officials from its infamous “1267 list“—while Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik’s children are being denied social benefits by the Quebec…
Robert William Service, Canadian poet
The Harper Cup, 2011?With the realization that the Vancouver Canucks may actually win NHL's biggest prize, Stephen Harper's office is working furiously to rename the Stanley Cup, 'Harper Cup'. Strong-arming…
All Canadians know what PEI stands for. Guess what else it stands for??? Hint: It has Inc. at the end.Update: Since no one responded I should provide the answer. And…
My heart is divided, a photo by Raid71 on Flickr. I’d have to replace the original Star Wars Trilogy with friends. Star Wars can move to where Lost is now.…
Dear Diary: I’m feeling introspective today. Must be all the clouds… “Dear Diary: It was cold today. But the Sun came out later, so I went out and strolled about…
If there is a long term increase in temperature it will make a huge difference to Canada. Growing seasons will increase, usable land will expand and water patterns will change.http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/hot-enough-for-you-preparing-fo...
One more reason not to wear a maple leaf on your back pack if you visit Europe. Newly released government memos have exposed a secret war that Canada is waging…
Yes, that horrid omnibus bill that it is to come out in about a hundre days ; that lawn order ‘n’ morality themed omnibus bill. Now, no one is exactly…
Dismayed as I may be over the sometimes heavy-handed actions of police, I would never suggest that the necessary role they play in society is exaggerated. Nonetheless, there appear to…
Another day, another nadir of utter stupidity… “This is what democracy looks like,” the dancing assclowns shouted in defense of their right to behave like jackals at public memorial sites.…
One of the options facing a future Prime Minister Jack Layton is to consider a request to the Supreme Court of Canada regarding the constitutionality of the Clarity Act. The…
Because I'll be going away for the summer and my activity will be down quite a bit (maybe just one post a day now?), I've decided to bring on another…
The passing of James Arness (aka Sheriff Matt Dillon) the other day reminded me of this excerpt from the Adam Curtis documentary “The Power of Nightmares” dealing with the curious…
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill
Well if you were expecting to see more unity and a more streamlined process of decision making from the Harper government, you can forget about it. The new Foreign Affairs…
Jack Layton just finished telling Craig Oliver that he thought what young Brigitte DePape did was wrong. He basically said that while he and the rest of ‘em are striving…
That was one way to start a conversation! In a country with an electorate difficult to fire up (livid over raccoon abuse in Toronto, indifferent to Canada’s involvement in Libya,…
