Prime Minister Paul Martin is between a rock and a hard place. He sits as Prime Minister presiding over Canada’s first minority government in 25 years and is faced with one of those decisions he would have rather faced…
The following image is from the Live webcam overlooking parliament hill at about 5:45pm today. Thousands of Canadians have descended upon the hill at Parliament to protest a man. They have come to protest a man who rose…
Tonight, I’m gearing up for one of those long nights in the lab of growin’ it, resolvin’ it and probin’ it. I am, of course, talking about my protein of study which may well help in the treatment of Rheumatoid…
In what is my 2nd bi-weekly installment of slagging Jack Layton for spamming his NDP membership (and NDP-watchers like me), I post the latest efforts of Wacky Jack to seek validation for his faltering party by pimping…
Field in Flanders, Canadian stretcher bearers, 1915 Today, along with Kingston residents, war veterans and fellow students, I attended the Remembrance Day service at the Cross of Sacrifice by the waterfront. The frigid…
On the eve of the American election, a solid majority of Canadians are hoping for the defeat of the incumbent President George W. Bush in favour of the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, John Kerry. However, our…
For those of us lucky enough to have the breadth of television programming that comes along with Canadian cable or satellite, a particular public service announcement from the Coalition Against Satellite Signal Theft…
Matt Fletcher over at Living In A Society notes that the current standings for the CBC’s Greatest Canadian contest stands as follows: 1. Tommy Douglas 2. Terry Fox 3. Pierre Trudeau The prominence of Tommy Douglas might…
One of the fundamental freedoms in any democratic society is the freedom of the press to report facts and uncover the truth wherever it may be. The press should investigate unhindered and express newsworthy information…
Along the same lines of the paradox that asks: “if you strapped a piece of buttered toast, face-up, on the back of a cat and tossed it into the air, which holds true: A cat lands on its feet or a piece of buttered toast…
