Drug Shortages To Be Listed
The Harper Government is making it mandatory for drug companies to post public notices when they are running out of a given drug. For years, doctors, patients, and Canada’s medical organizations have been lobby...
R.I.P. Sun News 2011-2015
It’s sad to see businesses die young. In the case of Sun News, however, fewer tears might be shed at their passing, simply because that’s the reason they’re shutting down. They couldn't get enough people to tun...
Sun News Network Goes Down Swinging
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
- Shakespe...
Government Marijuana Campaign Cost Was High
As the semester resumes, the intoxicating scent of marijuana begins to waft across the quad. Sadly, this aroma is overshadowed by the reek of shit that rolls across the country from Ottawa.
When Liberal MP S...
A Breakdown of the Baird Resignation
Last Monday, Rick Roth—presumably the lisp-stricken cousin of a famous rapper, but more notably the spokesperson for Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird—announced that Baird would soon resign from the Harper...
Eve Adams Crosses Floor to Liberals, CPC Says They Didn’t Want Her Anyway
With a single tweet, the whole Canadian media-sphere blew over. Was it the cabinet shuffle? No, that happened but nobody cared. It was Eve Adams VI: Return of Eve Adams (Again):
Pleased today to welc...
Harper Makes Unexpected Cabinet Shuffle, Rob Nicholson in Foreign Affairs
Moments ago, word broke that the Harper Government would shuffle its current roster of cabinet ministers. With John Baird's resignation in Foreign Affairs, many expected International Trade's Ed Fast to take th...
Infrastructure? Bah, Humbug says Joe Oliver
Christmas may have come and gone, but Canada’s unrepentant Scrooge is still hard at work. Joe Oliver, successor to the late Jim Flaherty, recently found himself in a(nother) feud with the provinces, this time o...
Four Ways to Stop Terrorism That Are Better Than Bill C-51
Everyone is making noise about Bill C-51, Stephen Harper’s latest terror bill. Okay, Evan Solomon is making most of the noise, but the rest of us are still thinking about it. Without digging too deep into the r...
No Consensus on the Census (Five Years Later)
Canada’s MPs still cannot reach a consensus on the census, just as they couldn’t five years ago. Two bills are on their way to the House of Commons: one by Liberal MP Ted Hsu, which calls for a return to the lo...