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Canada’s official languages commissioner has launched an investigation into CBC/Radio-Canada’s practice of posting unilingual access-to-information documents on its websites. The public broadcaster has been proactively…
While Canadian media outlets joined with U.S. lawmakers in haranguing Prime…
In Canada’s doom-laden realm of freedom of information, where bad news is endemic,…
The future looks pretty dire for progressive voters in the United States and…
A new oral history of the Village Voice, the weekly rag that goosed American…
Canadians are not whiners by nature, but sometimes frustration about bad service…
Well, that escalated slowly. Yes, it wasn’t until just before 4 AM early…
Are international arrest warrants for Israel’s Netanyahu and Hamas’ Sinwar and…
Time flies when you’re having fun — and so it’s remarkable that it is already the…
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s last expedition ship, which was located on the seafloor off…
A three-year freeze on the sale of used RCMP vehicles has created such huge storage…
New Brunswick’s election is little more than four months away, but the outcome is no…
To name or not to name? That’s the question hanging over Ottawa like a bad smell,…
With “all eyes on Rafah” following the horrifying deaths of Palestinian…
A recent media release from a powerful minister proclaimed the Liberal…
An internal review of the RCMP’s control policies for its uniforms, launched after…
Both sides of the Gaza war objected strongly when the prosecutor of the…
Good morning — here is your Saturday newsletter. I have recorded an article…
Inger Hansen (1929−2013), Canada’s first information commissioner, knew something…
The Ontario Liberals had hopes they could win last week’s provincial byelection in…
Good journalists frequently have barbed encounters with flaks for government…
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre’s roadside chat with protesters in the…
A few days ago, Pierre Poilievre’s official social media channels shared a fairly…
Pro-Palestine encampments are springing up on campuses across the United States.…
With the new electoral map now in force and the numbers of months before the next…
“Bring us more targets!” the Israel Defence Force (IDF) commanders shouted at…
Remember the Shopaholic book series of the early 2000’s? Author Sophie Kinsella made…
There’s trouble in the ring at the RCMP’s iconic Musical Ride, where the horses are…
Immigration has built Canada since its earliest days. While maintaining harmony…
There is a new political force growing inside Israel, and it may offer the best…
In my last post, I explored three key groups of voters I termed “the…
Yesterday, the Alberta NDP leadership race was shaken up by the withdrawal of…
Monday was a day of high political drama in Ottawa, but the outcome left many…
With only seven months to go before British Columbia’s election, David Eby’s New…
So, Naheed Nenshi is making a return to active politics and vying to become the…
The first line of this century-old stanza is often quoted as a proverb to…
Canadian peace research group Project Ploughshares says statements by Foreign…
Just days before the assassination of President McKinley, Vice President Teddy…
The mildly Zionist, innocuously leftish and now ousted advanced education…
The importance of Monday’s federal byelection in Durham is not what the results…
Some commentators are raising the alarm that Canada’s military can’t seem to hire…
There might not be a lot of suspense ahead of today’s Durham byelection. The…
It’s 2025, three years into the Ukraine conflict. and Russia, emboldened by its…
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