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Stephen Harper never used to talk about a majority. Now he's practically begging for one. Can he win it?
Prime Minster Stephen Harper in power is a danger to democracy. The Americans had "Tricky Dick" Nixon and Canada has "Sneaky Steve" Harper.
There could not be a more graphic illustration of the double-standard that drives Western foreign policy and has prevented a resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict than Prime Minister Gordon Brown's explanation to the Chilcot Inquiry on why he, when he was Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer and wrote the cheques for it, backed the war on Iraq.
Islam saved Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is a historical truth. The argument for it is double. First, in 570 CE, when the Prophet Mohammad was born, the Jews and Judaism were on the way to oblivion. And second, the coming of Islam saved them, providing a new context in which they not only survived, but flourished, laying foundations for subsequent Jewish cultural prosperity - also in Christendom - through the medieval period into the modern world.
Everyone thought that Red Tories were an extinct species, but no. Senator Hugh Segal proves that they still exist, though precariously.
The United Kingdom has a Minister of Loneliness. That is something that Natasha Beaudin noted in her talk to Ottawa's SWAG (Social Workers in Aging and Gerontology) on January 23. She is a health promoter at Ottawa’s Centretown Community Health Centre. She spoke on social prescribing, referral of patients to non-medical activities, be they arts, leisure activities, or the like.
It seems that, when governments decide that it is time for sacrifices to be made, the poor are called upon first. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty followed this principle on his way out the door, leaving social assistance recipients with new burdens. He cut discretionary welfare funding to local governments. Let's take a look at Ottawa as an example of the consequences.
Arise Technologies entrepreneur Ian Maclellan finds satisfaction in the dual-pronged pragmatism that comes from founding a successful solar technology company.
The next decades will see one of the largest technological shifts in the way people use energy, and this shift has already started.
On September 28, Canadian activists gathered at the Postal Workers' headquarters under the auspices of the Ottawa Palestine Solidarity Network to share information and make plans for action.
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