Hundreds of activists are expected on Parliament Hill at noon on Tuesday, January 31, to protest the Harper Conservative government’s widely condemned omnibus crime Bill C-10. The protest is being organized by the Political Action …Read More …

Dozens of groups launch campaign to not co-operate with Canadian spy agency

MONREAL—Nearly 70 groups across Canada have joined a campaign to no longer…

Modified form letter I sent started with: Dear Prime Minister Harper, Threatening charities as ‘adversaries’ of your government, is wrong. The form response I got back started with: Dear [Saskboy]: Thank you for writing to the Prime Minister. In your e-mail, you raised an issue that falls within the portfolio of the Honourable Joe Oliver, [...]

the regina mom‘s amassed a number of links about the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline and, though other bloggers have moved on to the HarperCon’s potential attack on Old Age Security (OAS) [See Alison@Creekside], trm‘s staying on th…

Liberals like to pretend, and this is reinforced by public opinion, that the Liberal Party didn’t stand for anything in the last election and that’s why they lost. Liberal members and the public both say this, both acknowledge this, both pe…

Dear Readers; On behalf of Canadians everywhere, I’d like to offer an apology to the United States of America. We haven’t been getting along very well recently and for that, I am truly sorry. I’m sorry we called George Bush a moron. He is a moron, but it wasn’t nice of us to point it [...]

50% off wages? How about 50% off everything? Yeehaw! – Syndicated from http://www.exciteddelirium.ca

By using the words “honourless” and “shameless”, Judge Maranger was tossing back at Shafia some of the very epithets he used so often when speaking about his dead daughters

Waste 30 minutes just walking to no place in particular, and you’ll accidentally help your health, energy level, and mood. It’s a doctor approved prescription that is denied to too many children, and adults deny themselves by watching hours of TV a day instead of doing aerobics at the same time their eyes are busy [...]

… a few Grit and Dipper lips smacking at the prospect of running against Harper on the issue of raising the retirement age to 67. While some of Harper’s holy pronouncements in Davos are basically no-brainers (e.g., reforming the immigrat…

Not all adventures have to take place on a glacier or in the Himalayas. We had our own little adventure downtown Toronto at Roots Canada flagship store on Bloor.

“It’s not so good to refer to what you’re going to do as a sit-in. That right there castrates you. Right there it brings you down. What goes with it? Think of the image of someone sitting. An old woman can sit. An old man can sit. A chump ca…

I am not sure if you knew this, but Pierce Brosnan was in one of the Canadian Heritage Minutes…as someone named Grey Owl.My best friend is super weird and likes to use Heritage Moments as part of drinking games…trust me, it really took people by su…

In any democracy worthy of the name, it is not merely the right, but the responsibility of every citizen to resist unjust laws… but there is a contrast between making a scene, and making a difference. There is a choice between the comfort of sel…

Dear Readers; Now that the case has gone to the jury, I feel it is time to comment on this trail where most of a family were wiped out! There is still debate among some people as to the true facts behind this murder / accident, so we present this article in the hope that [...]

In my first broadcast of 2012 for TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, I argue that in any democracy worthy of the name, it is not merely the right, but the responsibility of every citizen to resist unjust laws. – Syndicated from http://ww…

If you can’t afford a doctor, go to an airport. You’ll get a free x-ray and a breast exam. And; If you mention Al Qaeda, you’ll get a free colonoscopy.  

Stripped to its bones, the choice facing Shafia trial jurors is deciding whether they believe four people died in a traffic accident or a multiple murder

the regina mom has many links open in her browser window right now so this post could get long.  Each relates to the Northern Gateway pipeline.  The story, obviously, has legs and is running hard.  There’s this bit about the HarperCons determi…