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QUIZ – BC Election 2017: Who Should You Vote For ?

It's election time in British Columbia. After failing miserably in the last election, despite favourable polling, the BC NDP is ready to fight the governing Liberals. There's several issues on the table: Pipeli...

McGill Professor Resigns From Post After Quebec Politicians Dislike Article About Quebec Politics

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." - Mark Twain This week, the politicians of la belle province/People's Republic of Quebec/land of distinctly distinct distinctness, em...

Josh Freed: For most Montrealers, this is the winter of our content

Montreal has become a no-snow zone, more reminiscent of April than February. Last week, some downtown café-terrasses were open and busy, with no heat lamps. Our city feels like it’s moved to Toronto or Washi...

Liberals Think Mulcair Owes Apology for ‘Offensive’ Slang Said 20 Years Ago

In 1996, current NDP Prime Ministerial candidate Thomas Mulcair used the term “Newfie” in a negative way during Quebec’s National Assembly. Fast-forward twenty years later and the Liberals are trying to use thi...

Conservatives Cause More Trouble: Anti-Harper Vandalism Creates Unsafe Conditions

But can anything really stop Harper? Twitter, @DailyGleaner Just when you thought Harper couldn’t do (much) more damage, he’s at it again. Or at least he’s the inspiration behind it. Prince Ruper...

John Tory: Pretty Fly, for a White Guy

Toronto mayor John Tory is doing his best to make everyone forget about world renowned crack-mayor Rob Ford by being even more ridiculous. Tory is quickly becoming the nerdy father of everyone's nightmares thro...

Pembroke Ontario’s Second Annual Pride

With Toronto still reeling from a double hangover of Pride coupled with Canada Day, it would be easy to overlook Ontario (and quite possibly Canada's) smallest Pride Parade. On June 22nd, Pembroke Ontario, a (b...

Western Canada’s Systematic Discrimination Against Mermaids

Every eight year old girl has fantasized about living as a mermaid in her own underwater kingdom. Every fifteen year old boy would be lying if he said he didn’t have Ariel fantasies of his own. I myself find no...

Gilles Duceppe Returning to the Bloc Quebecois, Will Fight Over Leadership

The former leader of the Bloc Quebecois is expected to jump back into federal politics in time for October's election. Duceppe, as Quebec's angry grandpa during leader's debate, is often called a astute, cunnin...

So Much For Progressive: Interim Alberta PC Leader Ric McIver

Mr. Potato Head's Homophobic Uncle Named Interim Leader PC Alberta Alberta is widely known as Canada’s most resource-rich province and its most prevalent resource is political comedy. Like the tar...