On the Hunt for an Election Platform
This just in: the economy is emerging from the abyss! In September, 31,000 more Canadians found jobs than those that were handed pink slips. That…
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CD Review – Two Hours Traffic, “Territory”
Two Hours Traffic new album, Territory, crams 40 years of guitar-pop history into a half hour or so. It’s tight fit but they’ve wedged Beatles…
Letters to the Editor – Oct. 28, 2009
RE: Break it to my grandma (Oct. 21, 2009) Fruit flavored rolling papers for the kids, fruit flavored booze for the grown ups, and rose…
Break it to my Grandma
On June 17, 2009, Bill C-32 quietly passed through the House of Commons, amending the Tobacco Act “to provide additional protection to youth from tobacco…
Get with the times!
Enough is enough. As a Canadian citizen, I’m used to the federal political process that goes on in Ottawa. I’m accustomed to political gamesmanship between…
Plaid! Parkas! Patriotism!
Assume for a moment that there is such thing as a “Canadian identity.” I, perhaps naively, would like to imagine that it is complex, subtle…
What do you do with a problem like Gitmo?
Pop quiz. You have 245 suspected terrorists and enemy combatants housed 90 miles off the shore of the largest “democracy” in the world. They are…
Idiot or liar?
Our prime minister, the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, addressed the leaders of the 20 richest nations on earth in Pittsburg on September 25. Reuters reported…
The aligning of dead ducks
Tar-sands major player Syncrude plead “not guilty” in court last week to two charges laid after 1,600 migratory birds, mostly ducks, died horrible deaths in…
The merry-go-round of Canadian politics
While the prospect of a federal election has retreated (for now), I don’t think there would be many surprised Canadians if we were sent to…