Starbucks Changes Menu in Western Canada

Not long ago, I found myself craving a pumpkin scone, God I love them, but when I walked into Starbucks late that night...poof the lot were gone! To my despair, they had been unseasonably  replaced by new mugs,...

Falling Child Poverty Rates

Break out the champagne, Mr. Harper. UNICEF is officially allowing Canadian politicians to pat themselves on the back for having lowered child poverty rates from 23% to 21% between 2008 and 2011. We should prob...

What the Dean Del Mastro Verdict Means in 2015

The Trial of the Century has a verdict. Dean Del Mastro, former parliamentary secretary to Stephen Harper, has been found guilty of spending too much in the 2008 Federal Election  and of falsifying documents. ...

Revised Income Splitting

On Thursday, Prime Minister Harper officially announced that he will be implementing income-splitting for qualifying Canadians. He also increased Child Tax Benefits for children under six old, and expanded the ...

Curtailing Free Speech

Conservative Caucus Room shortly after the onset of the shooting. MP NINA GREWAL   Canada is still regaining its composure after the shocking events of last week, when two disturbed individuals at...

15 Ways to Spend Canada’s Budget Surplus

It appears that the Tories have made good on their promise to give Canada a surplus by the next Federal Election. The last time Canada boasted a surplus was in 2007, where it amounted to about 9.6 billion dolla...

More Tax but Fewer Taxes?

Justin Trudeau says a Liberal government would reverse the Conservatives’ decision to implement income splitting if they win the 2015 federal election. The announcement comes as we inch closer to the fall econo...

A Season of Elections

In Canadian politics, next fall shall usher in a Season of Elections. We will see not only the Federal election scheduled for October 19th but also four Provincial elections and a Territorial election between O...

Jason Kenney’s Anti-Trudeau Tweets

In George Orwell’s 1984, it was called the Ministry of Truth. In China, it is the Central Propaganda Department.  Now it appears Canada has had its very own Ministry of Propaganda, headed by Jason Kenney. Du...