Friends and foes laid partisan politics aside for a moment Monday as the fall session of Parliament opened with a string of tributes for former NDP leader Jack Layton, who succumbed to cancer over the summer. Taking her place opposite Prime Minister Stephen Harper, interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel opened her remarks by acknowledging the […]

When the U.S. invaded Iraq, riding a pack of lies and monstrous manipulation, the entire U.S. elite, including major news services, academics, and politicians from both “sides” of the spectrum, lined up to cheerlead and off they went to war. It was one of the most shameful chapters in the long history of shameful acts […]

For many people, the ‘golden years’ are now a more distant dream. They are struggling to save for retirement and to make ends meet. According to the third annual survey of employees conducted by the Canadian Payroll Association (CPA), 40 per cent of Canadians said they’ll likely have to retire later than they previously planned. […]

To: Hon. Keith Ashfield, PC, MP,  Minister of Fisheries and Oceans  Dear Minister,   I am writing on behalf of the board of directors of the Sport Fishing Institute of British Columbia to express our profound disappointment with your decision to close the recreational halibut fishery on Sept. 5, thus creating the shortest recreational Pacific […]

Americans have been voted the world’s “coolest nationality” and Canadians among the least cool, in an international poll, which ranks the Belgians the “least cool” of all. 30,000 people across 15 countries were asked to name the coolest nationality in an online poll conducted by Badoo.com, the world’s largest social network for meeting new people. […]

According to new statistics released this week, the smoking rate in Canada has dropped to 17 per cent in 2010. This is the lowest level ever recorded, according to annual results of the 2010 Canadian Tobacco Use Monitoring Survey (CTUMS). “The numbers announced today are encouraging, as they show more Canadians are making the healthy […]

Canadians who maintain the dream of a more equal, democratic and civilized society may no longer be reeling from the death of Jack Layton. But they are surely stuck in a kind of political limbo, trying not to think of the damage Stephen Harper can do whenever he wants, as they try to imagine how this catastrophic situation ...

Canada Post today unveiled the 2011 Mental Health stamp to help kick off the company’s annual fundraising campaign for community-based mental health initiatives across Canada. In November 2010, a competition was launched to help find a design, in which the five finalists were subjected to a popular vote, a first in Canada Post’s 160 years. […]

Cattle producers and processors in B.C. will continue to provide consumers with top quality beef thanks to a Government of Canada investment in a shared database traceability system. Member of Parliament Wai Young (Vancouver South), on behalf of Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, announced today an investment of over $276,000 to establish the B.C. Carcass Tracking […]

Dear editor,A concern for all Canadians which you may want to pass on to your readers. Please help stop this travesty.Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent just announced new rules for coal power that he claims will reduce pollution. But there’s a huge problem: he left a loophole big enough to drive a 500MW coal plant...