Premier Stelmach gathered together and challenge twelve of the most thoughtful minds you can imagine to actually imagine the reality we face as Albertans to ensure our prosperity from now…
LeaveYourSteppingStonesBehindSomethingCallsForYouVilleSo.If Christy Clark is a Liberal.....Why, exactly, are all her campaign signs blue?.
Since the story broke abut African migrants forcibly dying off the coast of Libya, abandoned by NATO’s humanitarian mission, so many trite remakes have been made. The most common is…
We have just witness an election which while historic in many ways was not one of any significance in terms of a discussion of actual issues or policies. The political…
Don’t be poor. Don’t be gay. Don’t be a woman; we own your womb. Don’t be an artist. Don’t be a river or a tree. Don’t struggle; there is no…
Dear new MPs, Congratulations on being elected! You've every right to be excited - as a fellow Canadian who is hoping that the house can be changed, I'm excited too.…
Consider two events and the responses to these events by two different governments. The events are remarkably similar. A party is elected to government at a time when the economy…
UPDATED… … and, it appears, it only took six months into this new term of council… Exhibit No. 1: At this moment (about 1:30 in the afternoon on Monday), two…
It really seems like the message has been set: the new NDP MPs are young and inexperienced and as a result, we will have an official opposition full of fresh…
It really seems like the message has been set: the new NDP MPs are young and inexperienced and as a result, we will have an official opposition full of fresh…
I suspect that the 24% of Canadians who gave Stephen Harper his majority don't read Paul Krugman. But, as Mr. Harper and his acolytes rest smugly in their certitude that…
I don't think that it should have taken Obama to realize a birth certificate in order to prove that he was actually born in the U.S, but a new poll…
In 2005, Andrew Potter wrote (in what happened to be a piece discussing pitfalls Michael Ignatieff might face as Liberal Leader) that "Canadians are incapable of having an adult discussion".…
People are not provoked by those who are different. What is more provoking is our insecurity: When you say, “I am so sorry but I am different.” That’s much more…
it's the Festival of Anarchy in Montreal, a month of radical events around the Montreal Anarchist Bookfair... i'll be highlighting some of these on this blog, the first of which…
Gardening for food banks from Www.thespec.com – news local Bill Wilcox has been busy cultivating community gardens to grow produce for local food banks and soup kitchens.
A Resolution Regarding Poverty and Social ExclusionProposed by: Carol-Anne Hudson, HamiltonDate: 09/05/11Whereas we are committed to living in an Ontario without poverty and; Whereas we are committed to living in…
I was walking todayAnd I passed a manA man I know named HarryWho always wishes everyone well I was walking with a womanNot just anyoneBut the only one The only…
Probably to the surprise of few who have tracked their anti-democratic and anti-transparency propensities, last month the Harper regime terminated The Coordination of Access to Information Requests System, or CAIRS,…
