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Government is taxing your childcare benefits
Blog | Monday, 26 Feb 2007I wonder how many people are aware that their childcare benefit payments count as income and are being taxed back by the Conservatives. Recently, my wife and I, along with all other parents with a...
Our web site front page stuck fast
Blog | Monday, 26 Feb 2007I would be the first to say that the "design" of our web site front page is great. Well done web team. BUT... It remains stuck fast. The same news items and the same blogs day after day after day. SO...
On the GO
Blog | Monday, 26 Feb 2007I am writing from the GO train in Burlington, Ontario. The clever acronym “GO” means it is a Government of Ontario transit system. The double-decker green train is still parked at the platform for...
The Long Goodbye to GDP
Blog | Sunday, 25 Feb 2007Featuring Elizabeth May The Long Goodbye to GDP The Agenda, live from the Munk Centre for International Studies. Progress, productivity, employment: the holy trinity of our capitalist way of life....
Courage in Saint John
Blog | Sunday, 25 Feb 2007In our society courage is often demonstrated but unfortunately and paradoxically seldom noticed. A classic ‘for instance’ are those who for decades carried the load of educating, cajoling, and...
2010? Why can't I buy a super-efficient non-hybrid car right now?
Blog | Saturday, 24 Feb 2007I am delighted to see more hybrid cars on the roads these days; here on tiny Saltspring Island there are said to be more than 35 on the road, and in nearby Victoria it seems that a good proportion of...
"Warning on Warming" - a few corrections needed
Blog | Saturday, 24 Feb 2007Our web site front page carries the article Warning on Warming, written by best-selling author Bill McKibben, a frequent contributor to The New York Review. Mr. McKibbon is also a "scholar in...
Afghanistan's Ubiquitous Poppy
Blog | Saturday, 24 Feb 2007foreign policy | Afghanistan | illicit drugs | medicine In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, ...So goes the famous poem by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD, of the...
Peace & Security conference Feb. 17/07 Part 2
Blog | Friday, 23 Feb 2007My observations of the other speakers at the conference. Taylor Owen, Trudeau Scholar, University of Oxford, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University, posed some intriguing questions. He posed...
The Joy Of Democracy
Blog | Friday, 23 Feb 2007Greetings all! All of us have reasons as to why we are politically active. For some it is wishing to advance issues that shape public discourse in their communities and the country as a whole. For...