Politics

Candice Malcolm — Sorry! That’s what Premier Wynne said in response to the damning auditor general report on the infamous cancelled gas plants. Of course Premier Wynne is sorry. You’d be sorry too if you were left to defend this. ...

Ellen Brown — Reports are that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is engaged in a massive, covert military buildup. An article in the Associated Press in February confirmed an open purchase order by DHS for 1.6 billion rounds ...

Marie Copps — A peaceful assembly to end artificial water fluoridation in the city of Toronto took place on Sept. 21 at Toronto City Hall. Despite the rainy weather people concerned about the health risk of adding fluoride to our ...

Frank Touby — After clearing this with the city’s integrity commissioner, artist Gary Crawford, a city councillor for Scarborough Southwest, agreed to paint a portrait of Toronto’s now world-famous mayor. Witnesses said he looks a bit thinner on canvas than ...

“I’m running to bring our community’s progressive voice to Ottawa,” said Linda McQuaig, whom New Democrats in Toronto Centre have elected to be the NDP candidate in the upcoming federal by-election. “I’m honoured to have been elected as the New ...

Gregory Thomas — The 3-year freeze on federal Employment Insurance tax rates announced today by federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty means Canadian workers will keep getting plucked, like a Thanksgiving turkey, for the costly program until at least 2017, according ...

Dennis Gruending — The President of the Canadian Labour Congress says that the federal government’s three-year freeze on Employment Insurance (EI) premiums is being done on the backs of unemployed Canadians. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty claims that freezing EI premiums ...

James S. Cowan — On March 24, 2005, at the request of Prime Minister Paul Martin, I was asked to serve in the Senate. There were nine of us appointed that day: Retired General Roméo Dallaire, Claudette Tardif, Nancy Ruth, ...

Operates in secret, with accountability only to Stephen Harper. By Brian Iler – The Toronto Port Authority has issued a press release congratulating itself for all that it does for the recreational and residential communities its Island Airport abuts. The ...

Jeff Atkinson —   The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) is quite sure its name is among the organizations and individuals on the Harper government’s list of “enemies” provided to new Cabinet Ministers earlier this week. But to confirm it, the ...