I don't think we have anything like this in Canada but, of course, I'm in the The Media so no one would be allowed to tell me anyway. We're talking about the Council for National Policy, which is meeting this weekend in Utah. Our very own Stephen Harper was a ...   more »

Artist Ken Danby, as you may have heard, died this past week of an apparent heart attack while canoeing in Algonquin Park. As soon as I learned of his death, I thought of his son, Sean.

The Danbys, at the time, lived just outside of Guelph, Ont., where I grew ...   more »

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced today that his government is using the giant-sized fiscal surplus to pay down the national debt. In turn, Canada will not need as much money from taxpayers to pay the interest on the debt that's being retired. And, as his Finance Minister promised last fall...   more »

Statscan this morning published the latest population estimates for the country. The agency believes that, at July 1 of this year, Canada could count 32,967,000 citizens, which is about one per cent more than the same point last year.

Alberta's population is growing fastest at 3.1 per cent year-over-year while ...   more »

News item: Microsoft take a stake in Facebook. Microsoft's rumoured investment -- the companies aren't talking -- would value the social networking site at $10-billion US. (Or, come to think of it, $10-billion Canadian ... hey, I'm takin' the loonie out for a walk while I can! ...   more »

Gosh, don't these yokels in B.C. know they're liable to bankrupt themselves???!!

B.C. COMMUNITIES COMMIT TO CARBON NEUTRALITY BY 2012

VANCOUVER – Local governments from across B.C. signed a Climate Action Charter with the Province and the Union of BC Municipalities today, committing to a goal of becoming carbon neutral ...   more »

Andrew O'Hagan -- whose books I keep meaning to read ... has a delightful (and short!) essay in the London Review of Books:

My name’s Andrew, and I’m a reachaholic . . .

Nowadays, being unavailable is understood to be an act of aggression equal to driving tanks through ...   more »

Substitute "PMO" for "White House" and "Prime Minister Harper" for "President Bush" and you have, in Dan Froomkin's Washington Post column, a pretty interesting column for Canadian readers:

How much control should the White House have over who gets to interview President Bush? Specifically, should Bush be able to ...   more »

Just because I'm one of those geeks that likes to fool around with a spreadsheet, here's some more data on job creation in Canada during the last five years, a period in which the loonie's value has soared compared to the currency of our biggest trading partner, the U.S.

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Hot on the heels of his new book, Harper's Team, the former chief of staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper says that not only are the courts and the bureaucracy stacked with Liberals who would work against an aggressive Conservative agenda, but the Queen's representative in Canada is also ...   more »