OTTAWA – A nude painting of Canada’s prime minister has politicians and Tim Hortons employees cracking jokes, pundits crying foul and one federal department reportedly offering up cash. Titled Emperor Haute Couture, the portrait hanging in a Kingston, Ont., public library shows a full monty Stephen Harper, leaning back on a chaise lounge chair surrounded [...]

Queen Elizabeth II looks through the window of the Australian State Coach as she leaves the Palace of Westminster, home to the Houses of Parliament in London on May 9, 2012. (AP / Carl Court) Sonja Puzic, CTVNews.ca Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20120513/Diamond-Jubilee-reignites-monarchy-debate-in-Canada-1205118/#ixzz1vDvNr0Zt When Prince William and his bride Catherine arrived in Canada last summer for their [...]

Dear Readers; Canada, which once had a fleet of eight submarines, (four in the navy, and four at the West Edmonton Mall) is about to put it’s second sub in the water this week. ———————————————– HMCS Windsor, one of Canada’s trouble-plagued submarines, will go into the water this week after undergoing five years of costly [...]

By Atsuko Kitayama, Reuters The long-awaited expansion of Target Inc into Canada, announced last year, raises the question, why haven’t more big U.S. chains made the seemingly easy move north into a market where established retailers are doing well. One of the biggest obstacles holding them back is a dearth of suitable commercial space in [...]

By Andy Radia | Canada Politics Canadians are a happy bunch but its not because we’re a wealthy country. The first ever United Nations “World Happiness Report,” released Monday has ranked Canada as the fifth happiest nation in the world. And even though the top ranked countries on the list are wealthy and the least [...]

OTTAWA (Reuters) – The son of former Liberal Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau will have a chance to punch a Conservative senator in the mouth on Saturday night and get away with it. Justin Trudeau, an opposition Liberal member of Parliament, will go toe to toe in a boxing match against Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau, [...]

Chris Hedges What happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable. No nuclear weapons. No huge military-industrial complex. Universal health care. Funding for the arts. A good record on the environment. But that was the old Canada. I was in Montreal on [...]

First there were 31,000 (THOUSAND)  complaints of Conservative wrong-doing during the election. Then it wasn’t only the Conservatives. Then it might not have been 31,000. NOW! It’s 700, and they are all over the map. SOON, it might be a couple of hundred, or maybe 50, or twenty. Listen folks, in case ya missed it, [...]

Dear Readers; You might remember a few days ago when your humble writer speculated on whether it might have been the Liberals themselves who thought up and instigated the “Robocall” scandal to discredit the Tories! Everyone poo-pooed the idea, including my own 86 year old mother who, with her usual “nay-nay” attitude said; “Why would [...]

By Melissa Knowles | Trending Now Just when you may have thought the ongoing battle between the 99% and the 1% was dying down, it may have been reignited. A wealthy banker left a $1.33 tip on a $133 lunch at a restaurant. To add insult to injury the word “tip” was circled on the [...]

Here are some of Pat Martin’s opening statements to reporters this afternoon on the subject of fraudulent calls made during the last federal campaign. By Aaron Wherry Voter suppression techniques are commonplace in the United States with high-priced consulting firms specializing in sabotaging elections. But I don’t think anybody really expected a Canadian political party [...]

I said more than a few times on this blog that I lean towards the Conservatives more than the Liberals in Federal politics, but there are things about both parties that I have a lot of trouble with! This ‘mandatory sentencing’  law that the Conservatives are behind is dangerous and gives too much power to [...]

Dear Readers; Not only should we get rid of the F-35 and buy a bunch of Super Hornets, but while we’re at it, maybe we should deep-six our five submarines as well!!!!!! ————————————————— John Ivison When it comes to the F-35 fighter jet purchase, the Harper government has become so well-versed in the art of [...]

Dear Readers; Not only did we win the War of 1812, we went so far as to burn down The White House! (They have since re-built it, and it looks very nice! -Ed.) There is also a local story to this war since the ‘Battle of Longwoods’ was fought right here in London, Ontario, and [...]

Stewart Bell Saying terrorism remained a significant threat, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews unveiled a national counter-terrorism strategy Thursday that put the emphasis on confronting the indoctrination that has led some Canadians to radical violence. The strategy, meant to guide federal counter-terrorism efforts, identified Sunni Islamist extremism as Canada’s top security threat and committed the [...]

By Jason Fekete BEIJING — China and Canada declared Thursday that bilateral relations have reached “a new level” following a series of multibillion-dollar trade and business agreements to ship additional Canadian petroleum, uranium and other products to the Asian superpower. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Chinese leadership said Thursday their new energy and economic [...]

Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country? That is the question Scotland’s separatist First Minister, Alex Salmond, proposes to put to Scottish voters in a referendum sometime in late 2014. Ten words, no subordinate clauses, its meaning incapable of confusion. Compare it with this little essay in obscurity: Do you agree that [...]

Dear Readers; Observers are baffled by what has happened over the last five years, a period during which the loonie gained about 50 per cent in purchasing power as it has risen to parity with the U.S. dollar. ————————————————– By Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press There are many reasons why retailers charge consumers more in [...]

By Angelique Rodrigues, QMI Agency EDMONTON — Finding foreign terrorists on home soil should come as no shock to Canadians who may be partially to blame, says an Edmonton professor of international relations. The arrest of Edmonton-based alleged terrorist Sayfildin Tahir-Sharif — whose extradition hearing was recently delayed — demonstrates the potential “that there are [...]

“If you were on the Space Station!” This Jan. 29 panorama of much of the East Coast, photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members. (This photo, from aboard the International Space Station, provides a look generally northeastward.) Philadelphia-New York City-Boston corridor (bottom-center); Western Lake Ontario shoreline with Toronto (left edge); Montreal (near center). [...]