Squamish Voter Apathy About To Go Up In Flames

Canadian voters tend to be apathetic. A simple Wikipedia search on Canadian voter turnout – which probably requires too much energy for the average voter – reveals numbers hovering around an uninspired 60% sinc...

Where to Start If You Are the New Mayor of Toronto

Sketchy the Clown is currently running to be Mayor of Toronto on October 27th. If you like what you read here, you can follow him on Twitter at @SketchyTheClown. One thing is sure about the Toronto Mayor...

Montreal Firemen Trash City Hall Over Bill 3, Pensions

When a child pulls the fire alarm during a test, they win some friends. The unprepared and nervous see the pullee as a saint, a bringer of second chances and serendipity. The studied and well-versed, on the oth...

Tanya Champagne Increases Pressure in Timmins

The time is drawing near for the big election everyone across Canada has been talking about.  No, not the 2015 federal election. Think sooner. No, you’re wrong again, not the 2014 Toronto Mayoral election. Thin...

Humans Of Ford Nation

  Of all the political niches active in Canada today, there is arguably no group as intriguing, confusing and misunderstood as the supporters of Rob Ford. On July 25, photographer James Hunter and I...

Olivia Chow To Call In Favours To Ban Handguns

Olivia Chow may have left federal politics, but that doesn't mean she's done meddling in them. Yesterday at a press conference on the campaign trail (a trail that Chow seems very fond of), Chow vowed that if e...

Are Montreal Boroughs Headed For a Referendum?

The family motto of the Greyjoys in George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones is "what is dead may never die." It also happens to be perfect for Quebec separatists too, after the recent discussions about the future ...