About 3,000 professional staff at nine of the 14 Ontario Community Care Access Centres started walking a picket line Friday. Represented by the Ontario Nurses’ Association, it’s the latest labour…
Will the last MLA out of the Alberta legislature please turn out the lights? Resignation fever swept the Legislature on this week, as another six MLAs announced they were not…
We kicked off a Netflix addiction with “The Croods” last night, and “Megamind” this morning. At Christmas we replaced a tube TV with a more modern LED version that can…
I add some personal context to the CRTC’s decision about simultaneous substitution, the impact on the ad agency world in urban areas and how Harper will turn it all into…
One of the last hospitals in Ontario to provide local outpatient medical laboratory testing is transferring the service to the private for-profit Lifelabs Medical Laboratory Services. The move will save…
John Klein: Here’s what Toronto was like 30 years ago for my Grandma. Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: Jan. 29, 1985 Only 28 degrees today, little sun & snow flurries…
Here’s an interesting bit of the process the NSA and partners are going about tracking your online activities so they can link everything you do that isn’t encrypted and disassociated…
We Can’t Breathe without control of our destiny! We Can’t Breathe under neo-colonialism! We Can’t Breathe with capitalism’s hands around our throats! We Can’t Breathe under bourgeois democracy! We Can’t…
Hapless Dean Del Mastro, the former Prime Ministerial Parliamentary Secretary is supposed to soon find out how long he’ll spend in jail away from his wife and baby child. What's…
Michael Barrett has a problem. The CEO of the South West Local Health Integration Network (SW LHIN) now has the ball in his court as local support has been building…
This shocking news story came up about a year ago, but it’s back in the news because oil crashed, and Alberta tarsand hillbillies freaked out about Saudi Arabia (finally). The…
Stephen Harper may yet again take an unprecedented move and manipulate monetary policy again in a desperate attempt to jump-start the economy prior to the 2015 election. The great ‘economist…
Following the utterly pointless shootings of two RCMP officers in St. Albert, the question was asked: why was Shawn Rehn, the killer, walking free? It’s a good question. Rehn was…
Danielle Smith to Wildrose Party members: I didn’t leave you! It was you that left me! Ever since the former Opposition leader shocked Alberta and significant parts of the rest…
Doug Horner, who was clearly the best qualified of the three frontrunners in the 2011 race for the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party, pulled the plug on provincial…
John Klein: Here’s what was happening in Toronto 30 years ago today. Originally posted on Grandparents' Journal: Jan. 22, 1985 Up at 22 degrees this a.m. & up a bit…
Imagine your kid’s school has 100 kids. It’s a good school, and all the parents pay for a lunch program so everyone gets a sandwich. Economically, it’s in a fairly…
I was an 8 year old awash in fossils, so I was a tad more generous than this former 9 year old PEI lad with his much more valuable fossil.…
The Cons have prorogued their budget and will likely have to hold off on disclosing financial results until the spring. In a desperate attempt to squeeze some life into Canada’s…
