Alberta Tory leadership candidate Jim Prentice, invisible, as everybody and their non-partisan friends pile on. Actual scenes from Alberta politics may not take place exactly as illustrated. Below: The real…
Toronto seemed gripped in a mix of terror and disbelief yesterday. Rumours Wednesday night were a new poll would show Ford in the lead. Yesterday the poll while having Tory…
Once again a plane intended to ferry party-animal Canadians to a booze soaked week in the tropics, has “had” to turn back to Toronto. No, planes don’t have to go…
It was destroyed by the artist last year in a fire. I stopped by it several years ago.
Wednesday Renfrew County workers for ParaMed Home Health Care held a surprise picket outside the company’s Ottawa offices. ParaMed has expressed remarkable indifference to an imminent strike that will sideline…
I gave a tour of Regina today to a Mexican student studying at the UofR this coming semester. We were fortunate to have a ride from my parents after lunch,…
A new building is often seen as a solution for the updated delivery of health care. It’s true they usually reduce energy costs. If designed correctly and collaboratively, they can…
The latest Coyne article seems to be self defeating in its thesis. “It’s not evident what contribution another public inquiry would make,” opines Coyne. For one thing, we could have…
The destruction of this apartment tower is ridiculous. How is it in any way acceptable for a state to destroy an obvious civilian complex with weapons of war? We’re supposed…
What’s the difference between what happened to Mike Brown and James Foley? I can no longer tell.
Is Stephen Harper’s annual trip the north a mark of something important or just another sad commentary on his disdain for those who choose him?
Why we should all be concerned about Harper’s misuse and abuse of government institutions.
An austerity revolt has broken the French government. Will the EU follow? | John Palmer | Comment is free | theguardian.com. If there were any lingering doubts about the seriousness…
The government gives, the home care agencies take away. Many of OPSEU’s home care agencies are presently at the bargaining table. You’d think this would be the best of times…
Some of the people camping out in Memorial Park to call for a national inquiry into the deaths and disappearances of over 1200 Aboriginal women. Photo: Paul S. Graham The…
Centre A, Tea Talks #2: Bing Thom, Bing Thom Architects Tuesday, September 23, 2014 Register here. From the days of the Columbia-Quebec Connector protests and the birth of
File under: we are all serfs/eventual anarchists: Consulting firm PwC recently published its outlook for work in 2022, based on interviews with 500 human resources experts and 10,000 others in…
So we’re somewhere, can’t even agree on how to characterize where, but what we do agree on is we want to get out. There’s paths leading in all directions, and…
It was clear from the start that the much applauded increase for Ontario’s Personal Support Workers was not going to apply to all. Back in April the government noted that…
Coming soon, in six to ten months, in Spanish first. A bike made with a frame that comes apart and becomes the lock for the bike. If the lock is…
