Regional Politics Archives - Page 25 of 35

Desmond Tutu to Deliver Keynote at Oil Sands Conference (Inexplicably)

"As Long As the Rivers Flow: Coming Back to the Treaty Relationship In Our Time," a conference held in Fort McMurray this weekend on Aboriginal treaty rights and the oil sands, has attracted a curious keynote s...

Hudak’s Bad Math and Wynne’s Open Letter

Despite the optimism of Progressive Conservative candidate Tim Hudak's Million Jobs plan in this Ontario election, it seems that everybody is rallying against it. Just yesterday, Kathleen Wynne joined the choru...

Porn Star Nikki Benz Bends Toronto Election in New (Seedier) Direction

Adult film star and producer, and Penthouse Pet of 2011, Nikki Benz, has announced her intent to run for mayor of Toronto. With five AVN award nominations, and three XBIZ award nominations (regrettably left abb...

Kathleen Wynne’s Real Estate Bailout and Taxpayer Blowout

Kathleen Wynne had walls foreclosing around her yesterday morning over allegations that she funnelled $317 million of government money to bailing out a bankrupt real estate deal gone awry. Now, you know that...

Harper Consults Couillard for Advice on Supreme Court Appointment

After the Supreme Court denied Marc Nadon a seat on the Supreme Court, the Prime Minister has been doing some backtracking on his nomination processes. That is, after the Conservatives said they wouldn't rule o...

Ontario on Education: Green Party, Communists and Libertarians

Part III of our series comparing the education platforms of the major Ontario parties. Sunday was the PCs, Monday was the Liberals and NDP, and today we cover the Greens, Commies, and Libertarians. ...

Brian Mulroney to Replace Pierre Karl Peladeau as Chairman of Quebecor

This morning, the second most-important Mulroney (regarding media matters at least), will begin his media empire: Brian Mulroney is to be named Chairman of Quebecor Inc. Well, they say a dynasty is built a gene...

Rob Ford Celebrated Birthday At Muskoka Bar

As we reported yesterday, Rob Ford celebrated his 45th birthday. Despite not having attended the festivities at his own campaign headquarters he did decide to celebrate his own birthday in the best way he knows...

The One Person You Won’t Believe Isn’t At Rob Ford’s Birthday Bash

Have you heard the news? No, not about Ford's resurrection, that doesn't happen for a bit. Rob Ford turns 45 today, and John Tory turns 60. Yes, that's right, two Toronto mayoral candidates have the same birthd...

Rob Ford’s Imminent Resurrection

After four lonely days 0f no new news on Rob Ford (two of those days were admittedly weekends, that has never stopped the Fords before), we get an update. Doug Ford, standing before the sacred aisles of the Tor...