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Alison Redford Resigns Day Before Auditor-General Report

Well, Alison Redford has finally resigned. Oh, she "stepped down" as Premier on March 23rd, but she's still been Calgary-Elbow's disgraced MLA for the past four and a half months. Given that she only sat for...

Ottawa’s Spin Doctors Cost Almost as Much as House of Commons

Recently, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation released the salary costs of the federal government’s information services staff. These number's reveal that the 3,325 spin doctors that work for the Harper governmen...

Justin Trudeau Goes Beyond Kissing Babies: He Lifts Them

Stop the presses, everyone! Not only has Justin Trudeau single-highhandedly revived the Liberal Party, bringing it out of the catacombs of irrelevance, but he has now innovated upon the generic “baby kissing” t...

China: Canadian Christians Stole State Secrets, Helped North Korea

A Vancouver couple who had taught in Southern China for decades without issue, have been placed under investigation by China for stealing state secrets. Though, it almost seems as though Kevin and Julie Garratt...

Valcourt Complains About Salaries of Aboriginal Chiefs, Doesn’t Mention His Own

It’s fun when someone tells us what we already know, yet we still feign shock and outrage at news that isn’t really news. Recently, Canadians “learned” that some First Nations Chiefs make a lot of money- more t...

Daniel Blaikie’s Legacy Run in Elmwood-Transcona

Canadian politics has seen its fair share of father-son stories. The media and other politicians constantly remind Justin Trudeau that his dad is famous. Stephen Harper has shown great compassion to his biologi...

Quebec Budget-Cutting Commission to Cost Millions

Quebec's new government rode to their landslide victory on the promise of fiscal accountability, pledging balanced budgets and an end to wasteful spending. It'll just cost a few million dollars. In a provinc...

State of Emergency After Changes to Del Mastro’s Wikipedia Page

MPs take Wikipedia very seriouslyStar Trek The bells of Parliament Hill have been ringing with catastrophe. "This matter is being taken very seriously,” says a spokesperson for Speaker of the Hous...

Eve Adams Quits Nomination Race Amid Concussion Concerns

Just two weeks after a recommendation from the Conservative Party of Canada encouraged both Eve Adams and Natasha Lishchyna to resign, Eve Adams has quit the race saying that "the time has come to take my healt...

Saskatchewan Replacing Melted Smart Meters After Spontaneous Combustion

There are at least 37 groups in Canada opposed to the implementation of smart meters, used to automatically monitor usage levels, citing concerns about radiation, and wireless and electric pollution, which woul...