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Go home, immigrants, Canada is full: David Suzuki
David Suzuki is warning about a new threat to Canada’s environment: immigrants. Speaking to the French newsweekly L’Express, Suzuki took on his usual targets, accusing Stephen Harper of being...
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Loblaw expands ‘wellness’ empire, buys Shoppers Drug Mart
Just last month, Sobeys announced a brutal takeover of Safeway’s Canadian stores in a bid to unseat the only larger Canadian greengrocer, Loblaw/Superstore. [Editor’s Note: Nobody in Western Canada...
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NDP too busy ending sexual harassment in RCMP to end it in their own party
Like so many events in the adult world, a fundraiser at the NDP’s convention in April was a messy, alcohol-soaked evening. Supervisors left early without telling their underlings, other managers...
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Halifax coffee shops begin unionizing; will other baristas join the class war?
Underemployed and not seeing anything better coming along, struggling coffee shop employees in Halifax, N.S., have begun unionization efforts in the last few months. After a struggle that may have...
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Rob Ford may have connection to gun-running, drug-trafficking gang
As every Canadian with an internet connection knows by now, Toronto mayor Rob Ford has had an eventful summer. Since mid-May Ford has been dealing with accusations that he has smoked crack and that...
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First licenses for pot sale under new rules go to Saskatoon firm
After revamping the rules on licensing for legal marijuana distribution, Health Canada awarded the first two new licenses to a Saskatoon firm called Prairie Plant Systems Inc., which sounds exactly...
View ArticleZach Galifianakis does what we all want to do, beats Justin Bieber
In the latest instalment of his hilarious and uncomfortable web series “Between Two Ferns,” Zach Galifianakis took Canada’s national treasure/embarrassment Justin Bieber to task for being an idiot....
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Harper’s ‘tough on crime’ agenda mostly just tough on minorities
Since Stephen Harper became Prime Minister in 2006, his government has emphasized a “tough on crime” agenda. It’s a counterintuitive approach for a country whose crime rate has been steadily falling...
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It’s 2014 and Ted Cruz is still Canadian
Ted Cruz, the renegade first-term U.S. senator who was almost single-handedly responsible for the American government’s 16-day shutdown in October, has a shameful secret. Like all shameful secrets, it...
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‘Got Land? Thank An Indian’ hoodie too real for Saskatchewan school
So 13-year-old Tenelle Star wore a hoodie that literally stated a basic historical fact to her school in Balcarres, Sask., last week: “Got land? Thank an Indian.” Unfortunately, her teachers and...
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Canada’s columnists are overwhelmingly old dudes, unlike Canadians
The columnists at Canada’s daily newspapers, those august voices who have graduated through the ranks of reporting to become our Serious Voices and Respected Elders, are just that — old. Specifically,...
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Canada is falling behind in the war on the war on drugs
Last month, Governor John Hickenlooper of Colorado released the first official estimate on what the Mile High State expects to make from legal marijuana sales. The result? According the Associated...
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U.S. sends beer, respect to Canada after losing Olympic hockey matches
It is, surely, the most important sociopolitical victory Canada has ever scored. The White House, shamefaced in defeat, sent two cases of beer to the Canadian government after the American men’s and...
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How transitable is your city?
Have you ever wondered how “walkable” your city is in comparison to other Canadian cities? Or about how the quality of its transit system stacks up? If you have, you’re kind of a weirdo. But you’re a...
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Female prison inmates may have been drugged to keep them docile
Prison is an unforgiving place by design (at least in some countries), but even there, people are supposed to be accorded basic human rights. One of those rights is to not be drugged for purposes of...
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