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Don't think government debt matters? Canadian governments spent same on interest payments as they did on K-12 education. Budget deficits and increasing debt are key fiscal issues as the federal and provincial governments prepare to release their budgets this year. Combined...

A man who sent drunken text messages claiming Saskatoon police had dropped him outside Saskatoon will serve time behind bars for the lie, which spawned a massive investigation by a police force that still has to grapple with its history of “starlight tours.” Dustin Keegan Eagle, 28, was...

A new law would shut down the last arena of independent public review of the billions of dollars in public spending on electricity. Ontario's desire for total control over all aspects of the electricity sector is nearly fulfilled. The push to eliminate dissent and independent review of...

Anyone could have seen this coming from a mile away. Alberta’s credit rating has now officially been downgraded by bond rating agency Standard and Poor’s, tumbling from our coveted AAA status. The government’s poor budgeting and snowballing debt load played a big role, but the premier and...

"Activists" fukkin' Canadian-hating scumbags sure. :lol: TORONTO — Enbridge Inc. says flow on a pipeline through southwestern Ontario was shut down for several hours by protester activity near Cambridge, Ont. Spokesman Graham White says the protesters partially restricted flow on...

A former Ontario Liberal political staffer facing criminal charges related to the gas-plant scandal is turning to crowdsourcing to fund her legal defence. Laura Miller, who was deputy chief of staff to premier Dalton McGuinty, had raised $15,095 from 22 donors as of Monday evening. Her...

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau does not see any reason to make changes in his policy towards the Islamic State (a.k.a. IS, ISIS and ISIL) and the threat of Islamic motivated terrorism even if Canada becomes a target. In the end-of-year interview with Global News, Trudeau reiterated...

By silencing white men Sadly, political correctness afflicts much of the world; in particular the Western world. At its inception in the counterculture of the 1960s and beyond it was a force for good. It moved us to examine our hatreds, prejudices, values and words. It reminded the British...

who sexually assaulted numerous women and threw fireworks into crowds at Cologne train station on New Year's Eve German police are hunting for a group of up to a 1,000 men in Cologne Men accused of carrying out a series of vile sexual assaults at train station Police described latest...

Islamic State militants have released a video, featuring a man and young boy speaking with British accents, purportedly showing the killing of five men who it says were spying for the UK. In the 10-minute film, the man threatens attacks in the UK and says this is a message for David Cameron...

Colby Cosh ‏@colbycosh Colby Cosh Retweeted The Globe and Mail In a remarkable first, an accredited “media innovator” has accomplished something truly novel in the field of spin. The Globe and Mail...

via Are We Still A Member Of This Thing? By Kate on January 3, 2016 1:33 PM...

well well well... Looking into the “Man pleads guilty to defacing Islamic Center and burning the Qur’an” story, I noticed an aspect that wasn’t mentioned in the Justice Department press release. The press release describes the graffiti painted on the Islamic Center this way: The graffiti...

Toronto Star columnist Thomas Walkom has written a too-rare appreciation of where the new Liberal government in Canada is going with its promise to improve the Canada Pension Plan. Walkom published a hard-hitting column on the subject on December 23. Amid much fanfare, Liberal Party leader...

Godfrey Bloom ‏@goddersbloom Godfrey Bloom Retweeted Climate Realists If you are an academic sucking at the climate alarmist public money teat you will hate this. Thomas Wysmuller trained as a meteorologist at...

The village of Bal Harbour, population 2,513, may have a tiny footprint on the northern tip of Miami Beach, but its police department had grand aspirations of going after international drug traffickers, and making a few million dollars while they were at it. The Bal Harbour PD and the...

I tell you this because when I first heard of our guest today, I learned of him through the mainstream media. Controversial. Right wing. Racist. Hooligan. Low class. Criminal. His name is Tommy Robinson. And he’s complicated. He lives in Luton town, a poor working class suburb of London...

shiny Who wouldn’t want to be Santa Claus, fulfilling the wishes and dreams of everyone who asks? For anyone who doesn’t live at the North Pole, however, resources are finite. The Liberal government may not see it that way. The new administration seems to be comfortable picking up the tab...

Natalie Cole passed away Thursday at the age of 65 as a result of congestive heart failure The singer is best known for her hits This Will Be and the Grammy-winning duet Unforgettable which she sang with her father Nat King Cole She had been forced to cancel a number of recent appearances due...

and the oddball cast that’s fighting for it At the busy Ambassador Bridge linking Detroit to Windsor, the continent’s most heavily travelled crossing, a Canadian border agent greeted three men in a GMC Yukon Denali with the usual recital of questions. Did they have any firearms? Were...