April 2, 2013 Police in Abbotsford, B.C. are helping U.S. border officials hunt for a suspect after shots were fired on the crossing. Continue reading... | ELIZABETH MAY | | My Critics Favour "Truthiness" Over Fact | I don't know Mr. McCullough, but in reviewing his blogs he seems to have embraced the weary cynic style of punditry. The strange attack on me as a pointless entity, "The Stonehenge of Canadian politics" as he would have it, is riddled with the kind of errors that favour "truthiness" over accuracy. Contrary to McCullough's uninformed rant, Green principles actually reject the leader-as-boss model of other parties. We need a Green Party in Canada precisely because none of the other parties are consistent in raising the spectre of the climate crisis, nor in advancing solutions to avert its most serious threats. Continue reading... | | TRISTAN RISK | | Vancouver: The Way We Were | One evening, when one of the guys had too much beer and was getting rowdy, Black Betty, the taller of the two women, told him to calm down. "Or you'll what?" he sneered, "You'll call the Mounties on me?" Black Betty didn't hesitate to come around the bar, grab him by the scruff of his neck and the back of his belt and pick him up and throw him out the door. She came back in muttering, "I don't need any Mounties to help me run my bar." Continue reading... | | | ERIN DEVINEY | | Could You Live in Canada on $1.75 a Day? | Extreme poverty is the most severe form of poverty -- in Canada, it equates to living off just $1.75 a day for everything in life. This tiny dollar amount has to pay for food, housing, medicine, water and education costs -- all for less than the money we would spend on a single bus fare or a morning coffee. Continue reading... | | VICKI MURPHY | | Why I Tell My Son About a Religion I Don't Believe In | Even though I'm not much of a believer myself, I tell my son about Jesus. I do it so that one day, when Max realizes it's all a bunch of horse shit, it won't be "because Mom told me so." It'll be "because that is what I think." On the other hand, if he decides it's all true, I am open to be enlightened. Continue reading... | |
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