Now the only things to take care of are getting the team ready to play in the middle of winter, making sure the stadium doesn't collapse and finding/applying a suitable pitch. How many days til' the...
created by woodpeck | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 77 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Most of the people who work at NowPublic were born after 1970. This means that for almost everyone in the office this year's holiday shopping season was the worst in their lifetime. "The...
created by mtippett | 4 years ago 217 views | 1 recommendation | 1 comment
People across the world protested today against Israel's airstrikes in Gaza, calling for an immediate end to the violence as Israeli troops have entered the Palestinian region. About 21,000 people rallied in Paris,...
created by Amy Judd | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 3057 views | 40 recommendations | 20 comments
I remember when this was all the rage in the 1980's. The government moved to outlaw this phenomena. Maybe because it exposed the system of control that all governments use to this day? When you have all of society arranged in pyramids, you just need to control the top of...
opinion by agora | 4 years ago 301 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Branch plants of U.S. automakers are seeking Canadian taxpayers to bail them out. However, why should Canadians prop up U.S. automobile companies like GM, that destroyed their own zero-emission EV1 Electric Car, in order to appease Oil Industry interests? But, the Canadians...
opinion by agora | 4 years ago 160 views | 27 recommendations | 1 comment
More international coverage on the death of a homeless Vancouver woman. " In Vancouver, the homeless woman burned to death Friday trying to stay warm after outreach workers failed in several attempts to get...
created by mtippett | 4 years ago 1293 views | 11 recommendations | 3 comments
The English Revolution was fought to establish the principle that Parliament is supreme.
In Canada, we elect a Parliament, not a Prime Minister.
The main check on the dictatorial powers of our Prime Minister is the supremacy of Parliament.
If Parliament is not supreme,...
opinion by agora | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 136 views | 5 recommendations | 3 comments
Stéphane Dion, Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe reportedly signed the Agreement for a Coalition Government on 1 December 2008, in response to the Stephen Harper government's systematized negligence on taking...
created by agora | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 554 views | 4 recommendations | 6 comments
In the British Guardian newspaper, Dimitry Anastakis and Jeet Heer compared Stephen Harper to former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. The article titled "The Canadian Nixon" documents a Prime Minister who pursues an ego-driven agenda, bereft of ethics, and that is in...
created by agora | 4 years ago 329 views | 11 recommendations | 7 comments
Dozens of police officers and support units are combing the halls of the University of Quebec in Montreal, where witnesses apparently heard gunshots. Police inside one of the school's buildings found shell casings but so far have not found blood or any trace that it hit...
Greenpeace has taken their fight to protect Canadian forests directly to the headquarters of AbitibiBowater. This is what the Greenpeace site says."Montréal, Canada — This morning, Greenpeace...
created by mtippett | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 339 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
The University of Toronto will offer Canada's first grad program in sexual diversity studies this fall. Up until now, Canadian universities have only offered undergraduate programs in the discipline, but U of T...
created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1616 views | 8 recommendations | 3 comments
In the words of our own Jordan Matthew Yerman, "looks like Canucks are getting caned by cascading crystals again.""The season's first storm has delayed flights, closed schools and sidelined drivers as the system...
created by Rob Peters | 5 years ago 1130 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
"Formerly the largest metropolis of Canada (a distinction acquired by Toronto in the mid-1970s), it is the second-largest French-speaking city in the Western world after Paris. As of the 2006 Canadian Census,...
created by mtippett | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 697 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments