Five weeks have now passed since “rory” argued that my Media Bias Project was biased in favour of the left, which is the right’s standard response whenever you point out that conservative and business organizations actually dominate t…

By Richard K. BarryCampbell Brown, former news personality for CNN, has a piece in the Sunday New York Times in which she criticizes President Obama for condescending to women. In essence, she argued that women neither want nor need any special favours…

Dutch disease: another taboo in the Conservative world that joins other terms like ‘accountability’ and ‘digital strategy’. – Syndicated from http://www.exciteddelirium.ca

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Awesome! – Syndicated from http://impolitical.blogspot.com/

When William Shakespeake wrote that “brevity is the soul of wit,” the Bard had evidently yet to see a John Tortorella news conference. There’s nothing remotely clever about the contempt with which the New York Rangers coach treats the ink-staine…

Today, Statistics Canada reported an annual inflation rate of 2%, precisely in line with the Bank of Canada’s target. With inflation under control and renewed risks to the global economy, there is little rationale for the central bank to raise interest rates anytime soon. In fact, the Bank of Canada should now be more concerned [...]

(Photo via Zack Hewitt) To say last night was one of the greatest nights of my life, would be an understatement. Last night, I was I was unbelievably honoured to win a White Hat Award!  Put on by Tourism Calgary, The Calgary White Hat Awards recognize the people behind Calgary’s tourism industry. I was nominated [...]

There’ve been so many robocall stories in a wide range of newspapers, blogs, and online magazines. It’s really hard to keep track, and I’d not so humbly claim I’m in the top 1% of Canadians who understand what went down and the impact it had. There are dozens of tabs open in my Firefox window, [...]

Canadian Press writes, “Mr. Mulcair’s analysis of what ails Canada’s economy is contradicted by a new independent study produced by the Institute for Research on Public Policy.” Really? What does the study conclude? As quoted by Canadian Press, “On balance, the evidence indicates that Canada suffers from a mild case of the Dutch disease, which [...]

Newsbusters; – On at least four occasions, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews mocked Sarah Palin for how he felt she’d do if she were ever on the hit television game show Jeopardy!. Enjoy….

As a partner in Blue Green Canada, the United Steelworkers have issued the following news release: WTO Called Upon to Dismiss Japan, EU Challenge to Canadian Renewable Energy Policy Canadian NGOs and labour unions have sent an amicus curiae submission to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the eve of a second hearing tomorrow into [...]

Andy Suknaski, award winning poet and visual artist, has passed away at age 69. -Photo sent to me by Dale Caragata. Andy is front-center. Andy was from my home town of Wood Mountain, and I have some memories of him as I grew up. He lived only a block away (not big odds on that, [...]

Vancouver Co-op Radio is a hotbed for First Nations cultural programming and a tool for Indigenous language revitalization. Long-time programmer Gunargie O’Sullivan wants the trend to spread to radio stations across country — by law. And she says the …

Postmedia has posted Michael Den Tandt’s latest column, which will presumably appear in print tomorrow. He presents recent comments about Dutch disease as a departure from Tom Mulcair’s previous position: . . . when Tom Mulcair was driving hard to become leader of the New Democrats, he took polite but pointed issue with his party’s [...]

Four weeks have now passed since one of my readers, “rory,” accused my Media Bias Project of being biased and promised to supply a list of newspaper columnists in this country proving that leftists really were in control of the editorial pa…

C4SS and Stacy Litzby James TuttleAs originally posted: Center for a Stateless SocietyMay 10, 2012Although this was a hard decision with considerable internal disagreement over the proper approach to take, Stacy Litz is no longer a member of the staff …

More than two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and BP's well spewed millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, Greenpeace has finally been granted access to pictures that show the real impact of the oil on marine li…

More than two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and BP's well spewed millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, Greenpeace has finally been granted access to pictures that show the real impact of the oil on marine li…

Statistics Canada reported today that April was another good month for the labour market. The Canadian economy added 58,200 jobs, most of which were full-time and all of which were paid positions rather than reported self-employment. Paradoxically, official unemployment increased as more Canadians entered the labour market. This development provides an important reminder that unemployment [...]