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Pierre Karl Peladeau’s Big Week: The Sun, Mel’s, and our Blind Trust

News broke yesterday that Pierre Karl Peladeau has been lobbying the Quebec government on behalf of Quebecor, the company he kinda-sorta has a majority stake in. Whoops. While this is clearly a conflict of inte...

Environment Commissioner: Climate Change Strategy Pretty Stupid

Canada’s climate change strategy sucks. Actually, if you ask environmental watchdog and commissioner of the environment Julie Gelfand, Canada’s climate change strategy doesn’t exist. This is shocking news—in th...

New Firearms Legislation: Harper’s Got Your Guns!

Squeezed in during the debates about whether or not Canada should get into Iraq (and how), Minister of Public Safety Steven Blaney recently introduced the amendments to firearms legislation he previously announ...

Doug Ford Loves the Jews

In the latest adventures of the Ford brothers, Doug has been accused of being anti-Semitic. His defence? He has a Jewish accountant. During a debate hosted by the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and the Ce...

Before War in Iraq: A Time to Reflect

Yom Kippur may have passed without much fanfare in Canada, as it does when one is in a Christian dominated... well, mostly everywhere. Yom Kippur is a Jewish Holiday. Its English Translation pegs it as a Day of...

Wildrose: Such Female, Much Progressive

Lately, Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives seem like the type of people Michael Moore would try to interview: old, white, and male. So out of touch! To be fair, they were always this way. The PCs have ruled Al...

Canadians Support Fighting ISIS (Sort of)

According to an Ipsos Reid poll conducted for Global Media, nearly 2/3 (a clear majority as it were) of Canadians support sending fighter jets to help the latest US led mission into the Middle East. The poll, c...

Quebecor Sells the Sun to Postmedia

Yesterday saw the announcement that Postmedia is buying the 175 English language print and digital media titles Quebecor currently possesses. Quebecor Media is owned by the aspiring future king of the countr...

The Legend of the TTC Leprechaun

They said they didn’t exist. They said they were imaginary. Well guess what, mom, leprechauns are real and when they want to get to their pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, they take the TTC. The leprechaun...

All The Reasons Harper Sent the Air Force to Iraq

Oh snap, that's me! StudentsOfTheWorld | OpenClipArt Yes, you heard right! The Harper government is sending in the troops–only the air ones, and only for six months, but who’s counting? Canada’s f...