Clik here to view.
Jack Layton Succumbs to Cancer
NDP Leader Jack Layton has died of Cancer today at the age of 61. Layton had previously battled Prostate Cancer and had been treated several years ago. He vowed to beat it. Unfortunately he was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jack Layton sculptor has done provocative work
Renowned sculptor Lea Vivot has been in the news recently for her commemorative sculptures of Canadian political icons — first CCF founder Tommy Douglas, and now her proposal to do three statues of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stephen Maher: NDP must learn to say no if it wants to be seen as a potential...
Dr. Grant Hill left politics in 2004 and is practising medicine again back in Okotoks, a bedroom community south of Calgary. Hill, in case you have forgotten, was the interim leader of the Opposition...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Joe Frazier Dies: Heavyweight Boxing Champ Loses His Cancer Fight
Joe Frazier Joe Frazier world champion boxer has died of liver cancer, only a few weeks after being diagnosed. Unfortunately very early stage liver cancer has few symptoms. Many thousands of other...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stephen Maher: New NDP leader Thomas Mulcair must get NDPers to aim at the...
After Jack Layton’s death this summer, a lot of NDPers in Ottawa had to shoulder heavy loads. Even if Layton had been around to lead the party, it wasn’t going to be easy to integrate a caucus full of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Letters: Speed limits, highway safety, SENSE, private health care, B.C....
Speed limits are fine as they are I have to disagree with Ian Tootill’s suggestion that speed limits are set too low. He says limits should be set according to what a “reasonable majority” of road...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mark Milke: Jack Layton was popular, but his ideas were awful
CALGARY — The first anniversary of Jack Layton’s passing has inspired numerous memorials and tributes, making it clear the late federal NDP leader inspired affection. But given the public fondness for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Letter of the Week: Unlike Mark Milke, Jack Layton wanted a government that...
For every “awful idea” that Mark Milke refers to in his column on Tuesday, “Layton was popular, but his ideas were awful”, there is another perspective, one where people simply must open their minds...
View ArticleClik here to view.
D.O.A. bids farewell, frontman Joe Keithley enters political mosh pit
Tonight (Jan. 18), seminal hardcore band D.O.A. plays the first of two, back-to-back concerts at the Rickshaw Theatre, kicking-off the long-serving Vancouver band’s farewell tour as lead...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Editorial: Canada needs a lot more than Justin Trudeau ‘charisma’
Justin Trudeau? Is the Liberal Party of Canada serious? A know-little, done-less, with not much more than a famous name, a pretty face and good hair is the best person the party can offer voters as a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Editorial: Loma Lohan and other really bad ideas . . .
From the Department of Truth is Stranger than Fiction, we learned this week that perpetually troubled young actress Lindsay Lohan is thinking about opening her own rehab centre. Having been in and out...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Them who laughs last
On the week that Nelson Mandela finally wore through his shoe leather, Canadian cons were meditating on the demise of another famous prisoner. But unlike prisoner 46664, this one was actually a child...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Terry Glavin (NEW): Mulcair, Trudeau, fail with their embarrassing ISIS policies
As last week’s weird unfoldings in the House of Commons should at last make plain to even the most casual observer of the global struggle against theocratic fascism, Canada’s part in it has come down...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jino Distasio: Court rulings may soon make it legal to sleep in parks
Sleep is a biologically unavoidable act. Yet, sleeping can be considered a criminal act, especially if you are homeless and have no place to rest your head other than in public spaces like parks. How...
View ArticleClik here to view.
David Akin: Grit, NDP, vows not to support a Tory minority government raise...
OTTAWA — So it’s a majority or bust for Stephen Harper. On Wednesday, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair did what Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau did the day before, saying there was no-way, no-how a re-elected...
View Article