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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 Posted in Economy | No Comments »
Nothing will replace the Stars and Stripes in the North American triangle that frames one of the largest trading blocs on Earth, and anyone who honestly believes Canada’s economic future ... Read more..Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
Spring comes early to Washington, D.C., in this year when presidential ambition stoops to conquer the indifference of a weary electorate. Already, eight months before the November ballot, Americans are warming ... Read more..Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 Posted in Politics, Society | No Comments »
The man in black hovers at the threshold of wakefulness, making offers he knows I cannot refuse. “Privacy is illusory,” he says. “Allow me to relieve you of your delusions,” he says. “Keep ... Read more..Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 Posted in Politics, Society | No Comments »
It’s not the first time a band of American advocates, whose ideological stripes ought to complement those of the reigning Tories, has told the Government of Canada’s imperious moralists that ... Read more..Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 Posted in Economy, Environment | No Comments »
Allow one of the world’s leading climatologists to be clear: He still thinks we’re all stupid. To be precise, Dr. Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria tells CTV that we ... Read more..Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
It was, for the Speaker, a question of profound, nay eternal, import; a quandary whose resolution could irrevocably shift the foundations of Canadian parliamentary democracy. When, if ever, is it appropriate ... Read more..Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 Posted in Society | No Comments »
As millions of Canadians fulminate over the Harper government’s determination to track their travels through cyberspace, millions more think nothing of providing social networking sites with the right to merchandise ... Read more..Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 Posted in Economy, Politics | No Comments »
As New Brunswick Finance Minister Blaine Higgs darts around the province, collecting scraps of wisdom and morsels of advice on how to slay the twin-headed hydra of public debt and ... Read more..Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 Posted in Politics | No Comments »
If the public safety minister’s job is to viciously beat his opponent with a rhetorical cudgel – suggesting that if a certain Liberal MP refuses to support his cybercrime initiative, ... Read more..Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 Posted in Society | No Comments »
In my effort to avoid perceiving the world through rose-tinted glasses (especially now, a week after Valentine’s Day), I continue to marvel how a “holiday” that celebrates love, but is ... Read more..