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Politicians are Animals: The Paintings of Tony Taylor

Call it a zoo, a jungle, or even a vet’s office. However you want to spin it, there’s one common message uniting these commonly used analogies; politics is animalistic. Beyond the façade of polite photo-ops and...

Mike Duffy Will Have Day in Court: RCMP Lays Charges

Just days after revelations emerged about Mike's alleged 32 year old Peruvian daughter (whom he refuses to acknowledge or contact), the RCMP laid 31 charges against him at a press conference this morning: C...

Rob Ford’s Debate Homecoming: The Return of the King

Imagine a pitch-black room. Out of the darkness, a spotlight shines down from the ceiling. Down drops a microphone, suspended by a wire, which a man confidently grabs out of the air. He smirks, knowing that wit...

Drake Makes History: Announces His Next Album Title

1967: Montreal hosts the World Expo 1982: Queen Elizabeth signs the Canadian Constitution into law 1999: Nunavut is established as Canada's third territory Every fifteen years or so something extraordinary h...

Senators Plot Senate Reform in Secret Meetings

Shocking revelations from the Senate (h/t the Hill Times), and it's another scandal, but one that'll only upset upper-level Conservative and Liberal operatives. Instead of another spending scandal or the classi...

June Jobs Report: 7.1% Unemployment, On-terrible Growth

The new jobs report is in and it isn’t pretty. The unemployment rate is up to 7.1% and the country ended up net losing over 9,000 jobs. While that doesn’t sound like a lot in the grand scheme of things, it make...

Marc Emery “Prince of Pot” Leaves US Prison Today

Stoners of the world rejoice! Marc Emery, the arch-overlord of weed-activism in Canada, is coming home. After serving a five-year sentence in various American penitentiaries, Vancouver's "Prince of Pot" will b...
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