Cathie from Canada

Amazing -- ratfucking is no longer the preserve of unprincipled sleazy political operatives but has become mainstream. Just another advanc...

Rick Salutin writes a sensible column about the Toronto civic strike He's the first commentator I have read who tries to get away from ...

Speaking from hillbilly fantasyland, Peter MacKay says the Canadian government is going to order 50 ships over the next 30 years. Dave call...

The Boston policeman now says: ... he didn't mean to use words like 'banana eating jungle monkey' "in a racist way." ...

In a comment to Dawg's excellent coverage of the Suaad Hagi Mohamud scandal, Zia writes: there could be a logical explanation for ever...

H.L. Mencken once said that nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. Case in point.

From Effect Measures , here is an hilarious video from Australian TV , especially the last 30 seconds: I don't think American or Canadia...

Better dying through technology .

Melissa McEwan writes about the post-racist country sibboleth: I noted, once again, the irony how it's never white people doing racist ...

On Saturday night, a lightning storm hit Vancouver and a fireworks show was going on at English Bay during the same time. Below are some sp...

The Via engineers, after two years without a contract, finally go on strike Friday. Two days later, after disrupting the holiday plans of th...

None of our hotels were like this one...

I almost missed this story because of traveling, but Dawg sums it up : Egg, meet face. It doesn't surprise me in the least that Diverse-...

We're not supposed to yell at the police, it hurts their widdle feelings and entitles them to throw their weight around and abuse people...

Here's a few more Toronto photos -- I loved the juxtaposition of old and new around downtown Toronto. Coming from a city where the olde...