BC Parents to BC Teachers: “Let’s Get Physical”

This Saturday, the BC Teachers' Federation met with the government for secret talks under a media blackout. The talks, attended by a mediator, continued until midnight. The next day, it became apparent that ano...

Harper Ratifies Canada-China FIPA

Everyone has had a babysitter that overstepped its authority. If not, surely each can recall the moment when the elementary school teacher put a student in charge of the class when she left the room. What happe...

BC High School Students Plan Walk-In

As Labour Day came and went, students across the country were herded back into schools like confused cattle into slaughterhouses. Teens from Nova Scotia to Yukon Territory crawled back into classrooms, many wis...

Dean Del Mastro, El Maestro, Conducts Classic Defence

Dean Del Mastro, formerly Stephen Harper’s main man, is on the ropes. It’s worth repeating because it’s painfully true. On Thursday, as the Crown lambasted Del Mastro for the last time during his trial for exce...

New Quebec Separatist Movement Rises in Blanc-Sablon

The Parti Quebecois was destroyed in Quebec’s most recent provincial election. Bloc MPs are leaving their party to sit as independents. Traditional separatists are jumping ship left and right. So separatism is ...