The Prime Minister’s statement on the occasion of Remembrance Day.
The values our veterans…

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Both the Ottawa Citizen and CTV are reporting…

Assorted content for your evening reading.- Murray Dobbin nicely summarizes what the Cons are hoping to do in prioritizing big-money “philanthropy” over a functional state and civil society:Ideology is meaning in the service of power, and the Conservat…

Assorted content for your evening reading.- Murray Dobbin nicely summarizes what the Cons are hoping to do in prioritizing big-money “philanthropy” over a functional state and civil society:Ideology is meaning in the service of power, and the Conservat…

Headlines today reflect comments made by President Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a private conversation at the G-20.Sarkozy called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “a liar”, while Obama expressed frustration with hav…

Uh-oh! Lucy van Pelt is back and she’s brought her football.
She’ll be setting it up any moment from now and asking all us Albertan Charlie Browns to line up and give it a kick. When we obligingly comply — or compliantly oblige, whatever — she’s goin…

Premier Alison Redford gets her Tory football ready. But the guy in the stripy short can’t be a real Albertan – the cloud bubble gives him away. Alberta politicians may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: the real Ms. Redford and fixed election d…

The Canadian Press notes that the Conservative promise of income splitting for two-parent families…

The Harper government delays balancing the books. Again.

This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Dr. Dawg follows up on Stephen Harper’s apology to residential school survivors, and rightly questions how sincere it can be when it’s been followed up with repeated efforts to avoid either actual compensation o…

This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Dr. Dawg follows up on Stephen Harper’s apology to residential school survivors, and rightly questions how sincere it can be when it’s been followed up with repeated efforts to avoid either actual compensation o…

Growing up in Western Canada after prime minister Lester B. Pearson’s Bilingualism and Biculturalism Commission was set up in 1963, it was always easy to find someone who wanted to bellyache about the use of the French language in Canada.
These people …

“If the English language was good enough for Jesus Christ, it ought to be good enough for Canada!” Certain Western separatists, like Freddy Lee “Ed” Clampett, shown here, may not be exactly as illustrated. Below: Prime Minister Lester B. Pearso…

Stephen Harper has revealed his Quebec strategy. The prime minister wants to punish Quebec for sending 59 New Democrats to the House of Commons in last May’s federal election. To achieve his petty partisan goal of scaring Quebecers away from the NDP, h…

Much ink has been spilled of late about the decision of Stephen Harper to appoint a unilingual Supreme Court Justice (Michael Moldaver) and a unilingual Auditor-General (Michael Ferguson) in recent weeks. We’ve seen the usual range of commentary, whic….

An abridged version of the Prime Minister’s interview with Tom Clark.
“But you know,…

The Prime Minister responds to the complaints of Ontario and Quebec about his government’s…

the regina mom feels wealthy these days. She was fortunate enough to be a recipient of an Emerging Artists Award from the Canada Council for the Arts last spring.  There’s no scramble for contract work and there’s a bit of extra money arou…

His social engineering aim is to privatize social services and leave the job to charities.