• Duffy
    Performance Art – Mike Duffy And The Harper Government

    By Crawford Kilian. The great satirists running our government continue the joke with Mike Duffy’s implosion. Originally published on TheTyee.ca Connoisseurs of schadenfreude — those who take joy in others’ misery — have had a wonderful week....

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    #YYJchat – ‘Whipped’ By Sean Holman – Tuesday 7:30 PM

    The BC Election is over, both historical and histrionic as the ‘public’ polls were completely wrong. An unparalleled win for the BC Liberals (actually gaining seats), campaign narrative loss by the BC NDP, and one for the...

    • Posted 7 days ago
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  • Joe-Oliver
    Academics Challenge Oliver To Take Climate Change Into Account

    A dozen academics and climate change experts wrote to Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources this week saying they are concerned that in its advocacy for pipelines for Alberta oil the Harper government is failing to take climate...

    • Posted 11 days ago
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    Your Information Is Not Secure

    By Michael Geist. Thousands of government breaches point to the need for reform. As Canadians focused last week on the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing and the RCMP arrests of two men accused of plotting to...

    • Posted 19 days ago
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  • Win Wachsmann Photo
    The Sad Truth About Sports Stadiums

    Just like in most small towns, the closed club at the top of the little tiny socio-political structure in Abbotsford doesn’t tale well to being criticized. Especially when they are criticized by those who own computers. Their...

    • Posted 20 days ago
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    By Omitting Information Media MisInforms

    By James Breckenridge. I caught a flashy ad promoting Shaw’s 5:30 PM Global National program. The ad had clips from a story about an Ontario woman being denied medical treatment by the Ontario government, telling viewers to...

    • Posted 25 days ago
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    Steps For Life May 5

    Steps for Life is a fun, 5-km fundraising walk to help support families impacted by workplace tragedy. Created in 2004, Steps for Life is the primary fundraiser for the Association for Workplace Tragedy Family Support (known as...

    • Posted 26 days ago
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    Slow, Painful And Inexorable Decline

    By Mike Archer. Is door-to-door flyer delivery one of the only things keeping community newspapers afloat? And if so … for how long? In his memo to staff this week warning of impending drastic layoffs due to...

    • Posted 30 days ago
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  • NDP MLA David Chudnovsky
    Whipped

    By Laila Yuile. Hold onto your hats everyone, Election 2013 just took a twist. Sean Holman, formerly of Public Eye Online, is about to première his stunning new documentary, and in doing so may change the way British...

    • Posted 34 days ago
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    Wild Salmon Forum April 20 At Harrison Mills

    There will be a Wild Salmon Forum Harrison Mills Hall 1995 School Rd. featyring Dr. Marvin Rosenau BCIT, Wendy Bales Area C Director FVRD, Dr. Tracey Lyster CAUSS and Eddie Gardner from the Sto:lo Nation.

    • Posted 42 days ago
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