Canadian Kindness Trumps Captain Combover
Syrian refugee family to benefit from couple cancelling big wedding Samantha Jackson, Farzin Yousefian accepted donations in lieu of gifts when they tied the knot at city hall CBC News…
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#TwoFacedTom Lukiwski Should Resign
Moose Jaw and Regina area MP Tom Lukiwski should resign. He was caught on video by a reporter calling an NDP candidate “an NDP whore”. Lawrence, Lukiwski’s Conservative buddy denies…
Brad Wall’s call to block refugees from Syria is just more of the same old conservative wedge politics
PHOTOS: Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall (CBC Photo). Below: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott and B.C. Premier Christy Clark. Bottom: Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is either demonized…
Open Mandate Letters
The newly elected Government of Canada made its ministerial mandate letters available to the public last week. They are absolutely worth checking out both for their content and as a…
Big oil, pipelines, Trudeau, and energy security for Canada
Why does the Canadian government continue to subsidize the oil industry with billions of dollars a year when the environmental crisis demands the opposite, and when investment in energy efficiency,…
Where to Put the Homeless?
Source: A groundbreaking study suggests giving homeless Canadians homes first saves money So, giving homeless people homes saves money …who knew! Utah, that’s who. They’ve been at it for a…
Where to Put the Homeless?
Source: A groundbreaking study suggests giving homeless Canadians homes first saves money So, giving homeless people homes saves money …who knew! Utah, that’s who. They’ve been at it for a…
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In Flanders Fields? It’s time to encourage another generation of school kids to read some better poems from the Great War
PHOTOS: In Flanders Fields? The reality of the Great war’s battlefields: squalor, incompetence, mechanized industrial death. Below: John McCrae, and a Great War poet still worth reading, Wilfred Owen. A…
Rafe Mair: A senior citizen’s perspective on the federal election and where we go from here
Rafe Mair – with more than a few grey hairs (photo: Youtube/CMHABC) Like most Canadians, I’ve a spent much of the past week or so trying to figure out what…
Brad Wall’s Beef With A&W is 100% Bull Something
.@PremierBradWall 100% Canadian, growth-hormone-free milk will never be back after #TPP is ratified. That's okay with you though? — John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) November 10, 2015 “TPP would allow milk from…
Would you pay the cost of a cup of coffee for democracy?
Canadian taxpayers are reasonably generous funders of democracy. Federally, we support political parties in two ways through our tax system. We subsidize political contributions up to $1,275 with an income…
Keystone XL is Done, COP 21 Set to Start
You probably already heard the good news about the end of Keystone XL with Obama killing the proposal. This is a good symbolic step in ending the exploitation of the…
Making Canada a leader in the world again
Canada has a distinguished record of contributing to the use of hard power in the world, as our performance in two world wars and Korea attests. As a third-rate power…
Proportional Representation in Canada
Another Canadian election has gone by where the majority government is formed by a party winning only 40% of the popular vote. This has political watchers and pundits increasingly vocal…
Rafe Mair: Can the Conservative Party come back?
A young Peter MacKay (left) and Stephen Harper join forces in 2003 Can the Conservative Party come back? Of course, but first, the Conservative Party must return. Sound confusing? It’s…
It’s official!
It’s official! Justin Trudeau has been sworn in as Canada’s 23rd Prime Minister… The new Cabinet has also been sworn in… In case you missed it, here’s the list: Justin…
Justin Trudeau’s Big Renovations and Small Stature
Justin Trudeau has said he refuses to move into the Prime Minister’s residence at 24 Sussex Drive until it has a multi-million dollar renovation. I think Trudeau Jr.’s stature is…
Notes on the Political Economy of the Hydro One Privatization or: Why Isn’t The Ontario Business Sector Paying Its Fair Share For Infrastructure?
Ontario’s provincial government faces a massive public infrastructure deficit. The province’s own numbers estimate the deficit at “tens of billions of dollars.” Among the high profile components of this deficit…
North America As Caligula
“But I will take questions from Entitlement Weekly magazine staff.” 1. In Alberta, one politician said, “Sorry, we’re not taking questions from political journalists” because, you know. 2. Jeb Bush…