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Windows ripped from office building in Calgary windstorm

Posted November 28th, 2011 by Thestar.com - Home Page

Commuters in Calgary are being advised to watch for street closures and detours in the downtown as workers clean up debris from a powerf…

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Ontario smoked trout recalled over bacteria

Posted November 28th, 2011 by Thestar.com - Home Page

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning the public not to consume Smoked Trout Filet from the Milford Bay Trout Farm in Bracebridge.

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Excited Delirium: Tax Changes Worth Considering

Posted November 28th, 2011 by Excited Delirium

Eliminating deductions represent an obvious way to improve public finances without punishing those small companies with new tax increases. This article offers up a few simple ideas related to this topic. – Syndicated from http://www.exciteddelirium.ca

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Excited Delirium: Open The Books for Everyone

Posted November 28th, 2011 by Excited Delirium

Here’s a great piece from David Climenhaga contributing to rabble about fiscal openness. While it’s extremely unlikely that the Harperites will follow his advice, I fully agree that now is the time to open all books for any organization tha…

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Tim Harper: Time for some adult talk on health care

Posted November 27th, 2011 by Tim Harper

There can be no repeat of the crisis driven 2004 talks. Now is the time to debate what we want before the 2014 talks.

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Tories win right to appeal Working Families decision

Posted November 27th, 2011 by Robert Benzie

The PCs have cleared a legal hurdle in their ongoing crusade to prove the influential Working Families coalition of unions is a Liberal front.

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Five awesome Cyber Monday deals

Posted November 27th, 2011 by Marc Saltzman

Here are a few of our favourite Cyber Monday deals to consider for the gadget lover on your gift list (or yourself).

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Hudak tweets send Twitterverse abuzz

Posted November 27th, 2011 by Niamh Scallan

A series of garbled tweets from Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak’s Twitter account had the Twitterverse abuzz Sunday afternoon.

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Study raises doubts about effect of tough sentences on drunk drivers

Posted November 27th, 2011 by Dean Beeby

An internal report by the federal Justice Department raises doubts about the effectiveness of harsher sentences.

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Suffer the children

Posted November 26th, 2011 by MariaS

Our children are being indoctrinated to think that a lot of depraved behaviour that goes under the cloak of “Gay Lifestyle” is something that they can experiment with and claim as their own natural feelings. The aggressiveness with which the gay lobby…

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Canada rejects asylum seeker deported to torture in Libya

Posted November 26th, 2011 by Sandro Contenta

Canadian officials wash their hands of Adel Benhmuda, an asylum seeker who was tortured when Canada deported him and his family to Libya…

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Catholics hear newly translated Mass

Posted November 26th, 2011 by Dana Flavelle

Some of the best known prayers in the English language will change in first major revision since 1969.

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McGuinty rules out federal run

Posted November 26th, 2011 by Rob Ferguson

“I love my country, but I am committed to my province and my party,” Dalton McGuinty tells first Ontario Liberal convention since th…

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Canada’s shark hunters get to keep their jobs

Posted November 26th, 2011 by Alyshah Hasham

Canada was the lone voice against an international fishing ban proposed to protect the porbeagle shark.

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The Scott Ross: A Conservative Winter

Posted November 26th, 2011 by thescottross.blogspot.com

Looking upward and looking forward, I see some parallels today between the weather, between those fixtures in the sky and us, and our political struggle. The clouds may cover or block out the sun, they may make the world dull, dreary, cold and harsh. …

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Quebec nationalists pelted with rocks, bottles in Montreal showdown

Posted November 26th, 2011 by Thestar.com - Home Page

A small group of Quebec nationalists were pelted with rocks and beer bottles in Montreal on Saturday.

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Christie Blatchford: How to interview a murder suspect

Posted November 25th, 2011 by Christie Blatchford

KINGSTON, Ont. — Some day in the future, instructors at Canadian police colleges may use the video that Ontario Superior Court Judge Robert Maranger and a jury watched over a couple of days this week, and Kingston Police Det. Steve Koopman will become a bit of a star. On June 30, 2009, a black Nissan …

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Be Like Two – Learn French

Posted November 25th, 2011 by saskboy

There’s nothing better than knowing another language. You can talk to someone else in a way that is exclusive, and special, and express yourself more clearly. I’ve dabbled in learning French, and have a very small vocabulary, and no grammatical skills to parle it. I’m functionally illiterate when it comes to francais. So I’m pleased [...]

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Blog Navel Gazing – Tweet Heard ‘Round The World

Posted November 25th, 2011 by saskboy

I’ve never had a tweet of mine be ReTweeted so much. It was an excerpt from a Facebook post that got liked and shared by about 15 people by this point, but the Tweet is at 83 ReTweets, and that doesn’t count the dozen or more who’ve rephrased it and tweeted it under their own [...]

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Buzzonomics: Why a housing bubble won’t surface until at least 2013

Posted November 25th, 2011 by BuzzBuzzHome

By Kiyoko FujimuraMark Carney has left interest rates unchanged since September 2010. And, in the face of higher consumer prices throughout 2011, market watchers have wondered whether or not Carney’s flexible attitude toward interest rates was the corr…

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