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Groundbreaking Developments in Gold and Mineral Exploration

I’m spending a few days in Toronto at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada annual conference. This is one of the mining industry’s largest events. Thousands of companies descend on the site to promote their projects. (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

Canada : Rocco Rossi pokes fun at Smitherman and talks policy at the Board of Trade

Rocco Rossi delivered the second major speech of his campaign on Wednesday, in which he focused on the city’s finances and gave new details about his plans for the TTC. The speech was held in front of a sold out crowd as part of the (...)

5 Mar. 2010 | 1 comment | BlogTO

Canada : Conservatives Bring Woe to Women

Canada : Conservatives Bring Woe to Women

Stephen Harper has made it public that he’d like the Conservative government to put women’s health issues first, while hosting the G8. Nice, but unfortunately this is coming from someone who’s party has largely worked in the reverse (...)

24 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Josh Chalifour

A Big Vote of Confidence for the Alberta Oil Sands

A Big Vote of Confidence for the Alberta Oil Sands

This is a big vote of confidence for the oil sands. At a time when confidence in Alberta’s massive oil deposits has been flagging. With the oil price having pulled back over the last year, a lot of concerns were once again being trotted out about (...)

16 Feb. 2010 | 4 comments | Staffjam

Budget: Alberta Tories lack common sense

Budget: Alberta Tories lack common sense

Alberta, Canada’s richest province, has had a hard time recently. Assailed by a global recession, with its concomitant drop in oil and gas prices, as well as by its own premier, Ed Stelmach, who felt he had nothing better to do than (...)

12 Feb. 2010 | 2 comments | Werner Patels

What happens in Afghanistan stays in Afghanistan

What happens in Afghanistan stays in Afghanistan

When the previous Liberal government decided to heed George Bush’s call for military action in Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, it was certainly a game-changer for Canadians. No longer mere peacekeepers, Canadian soldiers were (...)

30 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Werner Patels

Fighting homophobia - the French "kiss-in" goes international

After the success here in France of the previous kiss-in against homophobia in September, the idea is going international. At four o’clock on Saturday afternoon (December 12), couples - gay and straight - in 19 cities and towns around France are (...)

14 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

CIC : New Thinking on Canadian Foreign Policy ?

Really pleased to hear that the Canadian International Council (CIC) has launched "The GPS Project : A Global Positioning Strategy for Canada." After several years of fits and starts I’ll confess I haven’t seen the CIC strike off in (...)

18 nov. 2009 | | David Eaves

Federal Government Knows That GlazoSmithKline Are Shipping Bulk Quantities Of H1N1 Vaccine Out Of Canada

A lot of Canadians would like to get a shot of H1N1 vaccine, but the Federal Government has screwed things up so badly that frustrations continue to rise across the nation : Extra Canadian flu vaccine sent abroad "Extra vaccine for the H1N1 virus has (...)

5 nov. 2009 | | Leftdog

Canada’s Arctic Strategy - playing to the strengths of others

Last week I had the good fortune of participating in an intimate workshop on Canadian foreign policy hosted by CIGI and convened in preparation for an upcoming issue of the International Journal in which the papers will be published. One of the (...)

30 oct. 2009 | | David Eaves

The Fight to Save a Local Post Office

The Fight to Save a Local Post Office

A recent decision by Canada Post Corporation to ring the death knell for the Junction’s postal outlet was met with a rallying cry apparently heard as far as Ottawa. I learned about the threat on Oct. 10th while out walking my dog, when I bumped into (...)

28 oct. 2009 | | BlogTO

Canada : Liberals have no traction at all

Canada : Liberals have no traction at all

A new poll has pegged support for the Liberal Party at 25%. If an election were held now, the Liberals would do much worse under their current leader Michael Ignatieff than they did in October 2008 when Stéphane Dion led them down the garden path. After (...)

27 oct. 2009 | | Werner Patels

Canada : Liberals To Drop Controversial Copyright Lobby Spyware Amendments

With the Industry Committee now scheduled to contact its final clause-by-clause review of Bill C-27 on Wednesday, sources in the Liberal Party advise that its MPs plan to withdraw several controversial copyright lobby-inspired amendments to the computer (...)

21 oct. 2009 | | Michael Geist

Canada’s new natural governing party

The Big Red Machine is dead, and Canada has a new “natural governing party”. This is the logical conclusion to be drawn from recent political history in Canada. The latest poll bears this out, placing the Conservatives at 41%, and thus in (...)

7 oct. 2009 | | Werner Patels

Van Loan’s Misleading Claims : Case for Lawful Access Not Closed

Van Loan's Misleading Claims : Case for Lawful Access Not Closed

The push for new Internet surveillance capabilities - dubbed the "lawful access" initiative - dates back to 1999, when government officials began crafting proposals to institute new surveillance technologies within Canadian networks along with (...)

30 sep. 2009 | | Michael Geist

Harper Gov’t Pays $100,000 To Buy Back Priceless Silver On Loan To Canada From The Royal Family - Sold At Auction

Canada’s Government Red-faced! In June of this year, the Federal government of Canada made a huge diplomatic error. In their haste to liquidate publicly owned assets, someone in the Conservative government sold at auction a number of silver items (...)

30 Sep. 2009 | | Leftdog

We must start selecting better immigrants

A recent study caused the entire country to blush with embarrassment : almost 50 percent of Canadians are functionally illiterate. They can read individual words, but fail to comprehend what they read. But Canadians are not the ones who deserve most of (...)

29 sep. 2009 | | Werner Patels

Toppling Conservatives Now a Strategic Error for Liberals

Word today is that the Liberals will move to topple the Harper government at their earliest opportunity. Let me say this, if the Liberals force a fall election, it will be a strategic error. Politicos in Ottawa don’t always have the best read on (...)

3 sep. 2009 | | Gregory D. Morrow

When The Right Wing Tried To Prevent Medicare In Canada - 1962

In 1962, the CCF (forerunner to the New Democratic Party) government of Saskatchewan implemented Universal Health Care. Immediately, Right wing opponents from both the provincial Liberal and Progressive Conservative parties organized massive (...)

13 aoû. 2009 | | Leftdog

The Canadian Government’s War on Science

The Canadian Government's War on Science

For those who did not catch this excellent piece in the Toronto Star I encourage you to take a look. During the Bush era the Canadian war on science was an embarrassing side show to that of its more wildly offensive southern neighbour which regularly (...)

11 aoû. 2009 | 1 comment | David Eaves

I Want To Be A Member Of The Democratic Party of Canada

Canada’s opposition, ’New Democratic Party’ is considering a name change at this years annual convention. At the moment, I am a card carrying member of the New Democratic Party of Canada. My involvement is with the Saskatchewan Division. (...)

5 Aug. 2009 | | Leftdog

Environment Canada Is NOT Doing Its Job!!

Environment Canada has some explaining to do after once again failing to appropriately identify weather conditions that are dangerous to human life. "Concert organizers said they ran to the main stage at 5:57 p.m. to postpone the popular event after (...)

4 Aug. 2009 | | Leftdog

Victory for Ottawa Gardeners

Victory for Ottawa Gardeners

In a victory for homeowners and natural gardeners alike, Ottawa residents Henry and Vera Jones are celebrating the city’s decision to rescind the violation notice they issued over the couple’s natural, pesticide free garden. Ecojustice lawyer (...)

28 Jul. 2009 | | Kori

Flushing out the Truth on Sewage

Flushing out the Truth on Sewage

Today Ecojustice released Flushing Out the Truth, a report highlighting the tens of billions of litres of untreated sewage that are knowingly allowed to flow into the Great Lakes each year because of the province’s inadequate sewage system. Much (...)

30 Jun. 2009 | | Kori

Public Consultations ’Be Damned’ - Premier Wall Wants Nuclear Reactor Built In Saskatchewan

"The Saskatchewan Party government isn’t waiting for the outcome of public consultations on the future of the uranium industry to pitch the province as a potential place to build a nuclear research reactor that could produce medical (...)

24 Jun. 2009 | | Leftdog

In Search of A Canadian Digital Action Plan

In Search of A Canadian Digital Action Plan

In recent months, there has been growing support for a national digital strategy. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission explicitly identified the need for a strategy in its new media decision as have prominent leaders in the (...)

17 jui. 2009 | | Michael Geist

Government bailouts are a lousy way of doing business

Americans and Canadians are mad as hell : billions and billions of their hard-earned cash has ended up in the pockets of Chrysler and GM, via their respective governments, to prop up companies that have been failing for years - long before this current (...)

16 jui. 2009 | | Werner Patels

The Raitt tape : A “nation of ninnies”

The Raitt tape : A “nation of ninnies”

People will be people. People tend to act like fools and make mistakes. This is true of children, teenagers and grown-ups. It doesn’t matter what background they’re from, or what positions they hold, they all end up in situations where they (...)

12 jui. 2009 | | Werner Patels

Another Canadian Copyright Screw-Up

Apparently, Canada’s copyright laws needs need to be overhauled because, after all, we’re a haven for digital pirate - at least that’s how the copyright-crazed Americans like to describe us. Last year, the federal government started to (...)

29 mai. 2009 | | Mark Evans

Sorry, but they are not Canadians

Sorry, but they are not Canadians

Having a reasonable immigration regime in place that allows for vital jobs to be filled without having to wait for years makes economic sense. This requires, of course, that those who are admitted have the necessary qualifications and are, generally, a (...)

12 mai. 2009 | 16 comments | Werner Patels

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