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My take on Line 9 15 Aug 2013 | 03:05 am
Over the last year, there has been a huge amount of debate over Enbridge wanting to reverse the flow of oil in a major pipeline -- "Line 9" -- from east to west, to west to east. The claim has been ...
What? Wireless companies can't take the heat? 14 Aug 2013 | 02:38 am
Over the last few weeks, the three big players in Canada's wireless business -- Bell, Telus and Rogers -- have been running two separate but related series of ads which are related to the almost certa...
Guest post: The Reserve Paradox (Part II) 12 Jul 2013 | 06:54 pm
[Guest post continued ...] Aboriginal people in Canada today suffer from much higher rates of poverty, illness, dysfunction and incarceration than non-Native Canadians. Many non-Native Canadians beli...
Guest post: The Reserve Paradox (Part I) 12 Jul 2013 | 06:54 pm
Once again, I'm happy to lend over this space to my colleague Jared Milne. This time, Jared talks about the troubles that the Aboriginal community has been in for years -- or in his words, "how the ...
OMB caves in to idiots at Hamilton City Hall with "Aerotropolis" 12 Jul 2013 | 04:17 am
Earlier this week the Ontario Municipal Board gave final clearance to Hamilton destroying 555 hectares of virgin farmland for "development" lands around the Hamilton airport, when at least half that m...
A more perfect "union" closer than ever 27 Jun 2013 | 02:25 am
A huge, huge victory for human rights today in the United States with two decisions from the US Supreme Court. And it means the States is one step closer to joining the civilized world regarding eq...
Can boomerangs swing back out, after coming towards you? 27 Jun 2013 | 12:59 am
It's a fair question, because there was another putsch in Australia today. Three years after Kevin Rudd was forced out as Prime Minister by the ruling Labour Party in favour of Julia Gillard, today...
Raising the cap -- still not a good reason to approve Northern Gateway 18 Jun 2013 | 10:35 pm
The Con government has announced that Canadian energy companies who cause an environmental disaster will be liable for a much larger amount. Currently, it's just $30 million for the east and west co...
Do the Cons support free enterprise, or not? 13 Jun 2013 | 11:57 pm
As Canada gets ever closer to signing a free trade and labour agreement with the European Union, where free enterprise is alive and well despite a much more comprehensive social net than we have here,...
Rathgeber leaves Cons -- others should follow 7 Jun 2013 | 12:03 am
Brent Rathgeber resigned from the Conservative caucus last night, after his proposed private member's bill was basically emaciated by his fellow backbenchers. His proposed bill, C-461, has one very ...
