Frank Touby — It’s the silliest globalized contradiction of all. Canadians pay “world prices” for what we produce in Canada. Think of how we could recapture our lost manufacturing industries if only we kept our oil to ourselves and didn’t ...

Robert Evans Wilson, Jr. — “You are going to die,” Burt told Valerie (not their names) after she said she wanted a divorce. The 26-year-old policeman lifted a rifle and pointed it at her face. “No. Please no!” begged Valerie. ...

AODA Alliance — On September 10, 2013, the Ontario Government announced that it has appointed Mayo Moran to conduct a mandatory Independent Review of the implementation and effectiveness of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. Mayo Moran is the ...

Helen Kennedy — Open letter to Chris Alexander, MP Citizenship and Immigration Canada: I would like to commend your statement, made 12 August 2013, that refugee claimants from Russia’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) community will be taken “very ...

Stacey Starkman — Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC) celebrates the Jewish New Year with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for FSWC’s newest initiative, the innovative classroom on wheels known as the “Tour4Humanity” (T4H), on the lawn of Queen’s ...

Your Life with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Tools for Managing Treatment, Side Effects and Pain is the ultimate guide to living well with this chronic, sometimes debilitating autoimmune disease. An accessible yet encyclopedic collection of information, Your Life with Rheumatoid Arthritis is ...

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 ...

Summertime, soon slowly fading, makes us more aware of our relationship to nature. As city dwellers in our fixed man-made surroundings of hard buildings and streets, we treasure the soft, living and changing forms of nature. Our minds and perceptions ...

Chris Meyer — Enbridge Gas Distribution (TSX:ENB) (NYSE:ENB) has finished venting natural gas in eastern Toronto in the area of Eastern Avenue and Broadview Avenue. People may have noticed the smell and sound of natural gas as it was released ...