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Friday, April 16th, 2010 Posted in Environment, Politics | No Comments »
The brittle cadence of his voice was unmistakable, and so was the urgently progressive nature of his message. Maybe that’s why something Bobby Kennedy, Jr. told me six years ago ... Read more..Friday, April 16th, 2010 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Somewhere in downtown Ottawa, in a chamber of the highest judicial body in the land, safe from prying eyes, Supreme Court justices are deliberating whether Canadians actually do have the ... Read more..Friday, April 16th, 2010 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
The strange case of former status of women minister Helena Guergis and her husband, former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer, gets weirder by the minute. But I’m not sure it rises ... Read more..Friday, April 16th, 2010 Posted in Humour, Politics | No Comments »
Premier Shawn Graham has been named the 2010 Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year, and you can almost hear the scornful rumble of his enemies rise to the occasion. Graham? ... Read more..Friday, April 16th, 2010 Posted in Economy, Society | No Comments »
Small cities in this country are fragile, and their downtowns are like fireflies: They shine brightly for a time and then blink out, only to re-emerge unpredictably and often fleetingly. ... Read more..Friday, April 16th, 2010 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
It’s a regrettable fact of life, but things never change until they have to. The line between courage and desperation, vision and necessity, is razor thin. We transform ourselves only ... Read more..Friday, April 16th, 2010 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
There are times when, for authentic reasons of national security or personal privacy, a government has both the right and duty to conduct its affairs behind a shroud. This, however, ... Read more..Friday, April 16th, 2010 Posted in Humour, Society | No Comments »
The federal Conservative government’s preference for home-based child care is nauseatingly familiar, but must it also scare hapless moms and dads witless with research about the perils of choosing the ... Read more..Friday, April 16th, 2010 Posted in Humour, Media | No Comments »
My unease had been surging for months. But right up to the last moment, I wasn’t sure I could go through with it. It seemed so final an act, so ... Read more..Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
What, exactly, did the federal Conservatives expect when they hosted U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the G8 confab for foreign ministers last week? Tea and crumpets? Hugs and ... Read more..