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10 Ways Studying is Just Like Running Canada

It’s that time of year again. The snow maybe-possibly-perhaps starts to melt, crowded bars boast rowdy hockey fans who cheer on the only Canadian NHL team in the running, and children run outside in mud slicke...

I, Big Shot

You don’t have to tell Stephen Harper that these are troubling times. He knows. Bad stuff is happening all over the place, particularly in Ottawa. In the latest polls, his party and personal brand trail the ...

Carter Isn’t Big on XL

This week, the beloved Jimmy Carter became the first former American President to take a stance against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would carry Alberta tar sand to refineries in the United States. Hi...

UPDATE: RCMP Says Nigel Did the Wright Thing

The RCMP has been probing Nigel Wright for several months, so one imagines that Mr. Wright feels relieved to hear that the police force will probe him no more. The police had been investigating W...

Low Expectations: A Novel By Thomas Mulcair

Last week, Thomas Mulcair launched a scathing attack on Justin Trudeau and accused him of being unable to relate to the country's middle-class citizens due to his affluent upbringing under the auspi...

Brassault and Cocaine Possession

The details are as hazy as the air in BareFax Gentlemen’s Club, but it seems like Patrick Brazeau will soon appear in court. No, not for sexual assault. That was so long ago. And no! Not on charges of fraud...

Remembering Jim Flaherty

It was another week of pointless yelling, political manoeuvring, finger pointing, rhetoric spewing in Canadian politics. Business as usual. Then yesterday, the turmoil in Ottawa came to an abrupt halt. Jim F...

House of Turds: The Eve Adams Edition

For anyone who ever wonders why the Canadian political landscape is not nearly as entertaining as the American one would do well to follow what is going right now with the ongoing controversy surrou...

Trudeau Swears, And You Should Care

Justin Trudeau, an amateur boxer working a second job in the House of Commons, uttered a curse word in public. It’s true! He actually said it. He was at a boxing match, and he swore while talki...

Soudas This Mean We’re Going to Get a Fair Election?

The Conservative Party of Canada promised it would hold open nominations across the country in the lead up to the 2015 federal election (widely expected to be the greatest mass-firing of public officials since ...