Writing as one who has choked through each and every one of the 41 Toronto smog alert days so far this year (smog in the middle of winter—now there’s a hopeful trend) I now nominate Jim Stanford for some sort of official position in charge of getting me to work and back. His latest column […] More »
At last, nearly 20 years into free trade with the United States and with things really not going our way in the softwood lumber dispute, even the architects of the Free Trade Agreement and its successor, the North American Free Trade Agreement, are sounding free trade’s death knell. Apparently, these politicians, policy analysts and negotiators […] More »
Instead of settling for yesterday’s three-paragraph news release, or quibbling with this or that word in the three-paragraph news release, or complaining about the differences between the French and English versions of a three-paragraph news release, I do wish I’d heard from more readers who believe the Canadian people deserve more than a three-paragraph news […] More »
It’s just one more night until the THIS Magazine Summer Party! Join us at Cadillac Lounge (1296 Queen Street West) on Thursday, August 18 to celebrate the LAUNCH of our fabulous summer issue-come out to the party for your free copy! THE DETAILS… Where: Cadillac Lounge, 1296 Queen Street W When: Thursday, August 18. Doors […] More »
Looks like CBC management has actually gone ahead with the lock out. It seems like a bizarre move, especially since CBC’s radio ratings have been on an upward incline lately. Will the damage (both PR-wise and in terms of employee morale) done by locking out employees really be justified by gaining a bit more wiggle […] More »
Babur the cruise missile was launched on a test flight today in Pakistan. Not to be confused with Babar the elephant king who wanders around spreading a message of peace, or Babur the restaurant, which has a supertasty Indian buffet on Queen Street in Toronto, Babur the cruise missile is a death delivering device that […] More »
Good work by Tim Harper at The Toronto Star, following the Arar court case in Brooklyn, which opened yesterday. I can’t find any mention of it in any other source, American or Canadian (anybody?). Maher Arar is suing John Ashcroft and others over his extraordinary rendition to Syria in 2002. How are the Americans, with […] More »
As the Telus Communications strike enters its third week, reports out of Edmonton this morning that this city’s workers have been offered an incentive to cross the picket lines: an iPod. No word yet on whether any of the workers have put the soundtrack to their lives ahead of their livelihood. I wonder is it […] More »
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Not much going on over the last week, as I toured Ontario wine country and swam in Al Purdy’s glorious Roblin Lake. Oh, except I managed to be watching CNN just as conservative columnist Robert Novak misplaced his brain, swore, and wandered off the set like someone looking for the coffee station. So that’s something. […] More »
Looks like another conservative leader has royally screwed up a half-assed attempt to reach out to Canada’s aboriginal community. The Toronto Star reports that Ontario’s PC leader John Tory sent a letter addressed to Matthew Coon Come at the Assembly of First Nations, asking for invitations to aboriginal events and boasting of his party’s efforts […] More »