On August 22, 2011 NDP Opposition Leader Jack Layton lost his fight to cancer.  He left this letter to all Canadians…   “August 20, 2011Toronto, Ontario Dear Friends, Tens of thousands of Canadians have written to me in recent weeks to wish me well. I want to thank each and every one of you for [...]

Mark Carney, the Bank of Canada governor, has announced that defaulting on it’s debt would place the United States government in a dire situation and the implications for all financial markets would be catastrophic and it’s not a situation that should not be tested. On Wednesday Carney said the bank doesn’t expect the United States [...]

Note: There are elements in this story that contain explicit and unsettling details and may upset some readers! Mark Twitchell confided in a Facebook friend in the United States saying that he “crossed the line” only days after an announcement was made by police about the killing of an adult male in a garage in [...]

The command of the Libyan operation goes to a Canadian commander.  Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced on Friday that the NATO operation in Libya will be handed over the Canadian Lt. General Charles Bouchard. On Thursday NATO assumed authority for the “no-fly zone” in the skies of Libya, a piece of a United Nations [...]

Canada is transferring 2 CP-140 Auroras reconnaissance aircraft, to Italy for support missions to defend Libyan civilians, announced Defence Minister Peter MacKay today. He announced that Canada is deploying the air-craft to offer tactical maritime observation to honour Canadian commitments to the UN-backed assignment to protect Libyan civilians. The statement was given while the fighting [...]

United States President Barack Obama requested his personal staff to start brewing beer at the White House. Obama’s has a blog called Obama Foodoramaa, which posts Obama’s food ideas, reported this week that the President along with the First Lady have requested their cooks to pick up the fashionable hobby.  The pair served the first [...]

Other candidates for British Columbia’s NDP leadership race may be giving campaign promises and unfolding platforms, but an slim chance contender and marijuana advocate Dana Larsen is pulling out performer and stand-up comedian Tommy Chong. The superstar pothead, one half of the comic twosome Cheech and Chong, is openly endorsing Larsen for the premiership and [...]

Canada was able to lift off a military transport from the runway in Tripoli, Libya today with more Canadians and some foreign nationals as well. Jay Paxton, a spokesperson for Defence Minister Peter MacKay, said a Canadian Forces airplane took off from Malta and landed in Libya devoid of incident. Upon arriving back in Malta, [...]

Prisoners at a British Columbia detention facility are going through the process of trying to form a union in order to highlight and defend their rights as workers in the prison institution. Natalie Dunbar, lawyer for the prisoners said prisoner coordinators at Agassiz’s, Mountain Institution, are attempting to sign up members for what they are [...]

A former Surrey, British Columbia, border guard has been convicted of sexual assault on 3 women while on duty, and he has received a prison sentence of 2 years less 1-day. A British Columbia Supreme Court judge also sentenced former agent Daniel Greenhalgh of Canada Border Services Agency to 3 years of probation. Winston Sayson, [...]