A Season of Elections
In Canadian politics, next fall shall usher in a Season of Elections. We will see not only the Federal election scheduled for October 19th but also four Provincial elections and a Territorial election between O...
Plans for Canada’s 150th Celebration: Possibly Partisan
Celebrating a milestone like a country’s 150th birthday can’t be done on the cheap. Nevertheless, people have raised eyebrows over how much our government will spend on remembering the past rather than fixing t...
8 Conundrums from the Canadian Constitution
You might be Canadian. You might know about all that’s happening in the cold, snowy country you live in. But there is a truly Canadian document lurking in print and on the World Wide Web whose ramifications mig...
B.C. Woman Denied Job Due To Religion: Not Being Norse Enough
When you mess with the Viking, you get the horns. Trinity Western University biology graduate Bethany Paquette received several nasty e-mails this week from modern day Norsemen.
Olaf Amundsen, who describes ...
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...
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...
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...
All The Reasons Harper Sent the Air Force to Iraq
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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...
Canada Sending Air Force to Iraq: We’re Going to War
It’s official. After weeks of dodging questions about Canada’s military involvement in the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS/ISIL/The Islamic State/whatever they’re called, the Conservative Party of Canada has in...