Cathie from Canada

In British Columbia, they're marching in the streets against the HST, the so-called "harmonized sales tax". In Ontario, the ...

So often we think, I'm only one person so what can I do? Well, Christopher Reeve broke his neck in 1995 and died in 2004, but research ...

When I read this tragic story I realized again that just being a teenager can be a death-defying act. Our kids did some pretty dumb things...

Good - Trudeau, Tewksbury among first inductees into Queer Hall of Fame Bad -- the latest from Afghanistan Ugly - Brian Mulroney's long ...

With the sad news that Mary Travers has died, her great music has been posted all over the internet. Here are two somewhat less well known ...

Glenn Greenwald is in fine form writing about the group of former CIA Directors who think the President should tell the Attorney General not...

I am one of the many thousands of Canadians who can trace their roots to the United Empire Loyalists who moved to Ontario after the America...

I think this is just going to keep on happening every six months or so -- the US media will go through these periodic paroxysms of hysteria...

Racist organizer of the teabagger march calls Obama: Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug and a racist in chief WTF does that mean? They ...

Funniest headline so far this week: 'We're not cutting any deals,' Tories say Revising Employment Insurance along the lines wan...

Amanda Marcotte has an interesting post about some of the basic assumptions of the anti-Obama /teabag /wingnut movement and their little ma...

From Crooks and Liars :

I read this and I'll never take eyesight for granted again.

Maybe its just snark on my part, but I was amused that the participants in yesterday's rally in Washington apparently couldn't tell ...

Alison has followed up brilliantly on Antonia Zerbisias' suggestion about a new t-shirt slogan: "Proud to be a member of that ...