Shannon Walsh’s feature documentary À St-Henri le 26 août (known in English as St-Henri, the 26th of August) takes the viewer on a visceral and honest journey through the bilingual,…
A resident of Pasadena notes in the weekend edition of the Western Star that it is "disrespectful for provincial government project signs, with the late Diane Whalen’s name on it,…
It could be ten years before the Liberal Party of Canada will again be able to form a government. This is one reality that their membership should consider as they…
Netanyahu and the one-state solution - Opinion - Al Jazeera English Excerpt: At this new intersection, there are two signs. The first points towards the west and reads "viable and…
Today is a national holiday in Canada. For most of the country, it's Victoria Day; some readers write me it's just another opportunity to get plastered. For the Québécois, it's…
I think the point about economic footprint is well-taken and worth making not only in this context but in other contexts as well. For example, when I sponsor projects in…
Ipsos is predicting that Harper's "values-based national coalition" of Tories might have a brighter future than the cobbled-together Mulroney coalition had: Darrel Bricker of Ipsos The interesting thing about what…
At last summer's G20 Conference, Stephen Harper worked hard to get all the participants to buy into the Austerity Myth. That myth is based upon the belief that, in Paul…
I think we all agree hat we want peace in the Middle East. The road to that peace is difficult, and shouldn't be expected to be short. I think if…
It's common knowledge that throughout Canada, the UK, and the US continued economic growth has not translated in increased living standards for the masses. For example, in the US the…
The right's mirror-image view of life - Opinion - Al Jazeera English This article applies to the Conservatives in Canada too: Excerpt: Yesterday, I pulled up to a drive-through ATM,…
G8 times are here again! And France gets its day in the sun as host, which clearly heralds the ascent of a new French Order in Europe and the world.…
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This really is a brilliant little post. Pointing to a "pro-reality" shift in U.S. media away from years of the press giving Republicans freedom to roam with "delusional" ideas such…
The Conservatives are ready to move quickly to kill the Canadian Wheat Board, a philosophical irritant to the notion of free markets. The Conservatives are poised to move quickly against…
If TV fans could save one cancelled show, which would you want it to be?For us, it would be Detroit 187. We love Michael Imperioli, for one thing. And the…
By a poet hostile to her reign. “Good, you were good, we say,” he writes. “You had no wit to be evil.” Probably worth remembering on the commemoration of her…
On this holiday Monday for most people, I was going to take a crack at Jason Kenney’s ridiculous assertion about how Senate reform could be achieved by the provinces magically…
To tell the truth. The sad thing is, it works the same here in Canada. There is only one "legitimate" position on the Middle East and that is "Israel can…
Today is a holiday: in Quebec since 2002 it's been called la Journée des Patriotes, in honour of the band of rebels who took on the British regime in 1837-38.…
