BigCityLib Strikes Back

2:35pm: Senator Nolin (QC) is breaking ranks with his Conservative caucus and speaking out against electing senators. Whew! It's been a...

Mr. Layton has not said yet how he will deal with the 12 MPs who voted with the government. Does he whip a private members’ vote? Or does he...

And the rest is here . Even when the Liberals score a comparable tiny triumph, it looks a bit scuzzy . Pity that the NDP are a bunch of ha...

...blames them for G8/G20 security costs. The first part of that statement I have no problem with--indeed I wonder if the gov. will actually...

One result of my Xmas time computer crash is that I've been sorting through CDRs, looking for electronic copies of my old published shor...

Tim Hudak won’t promise to repeal the Harmonized Sales Tax but he promised to try and limit its reach if elected premier next year. Yet here...

Since Genyornis's extinction date has been traced to 40,000/50,000 years ago the painting probably dates to around that period , which ...

He's the Tory MP for Calgary Northeast , and remember: Devinder Shory has not been accused of fraud, but of negligence. He allegedly ove...

So, for reasons that entirely escape me, A group of North American moose (Alces alces), ten in number, were released in 1910 in New Zealand....

...in an otherwise fine article about the financial troubles of British Petroleum, this statement BP has being very aggressive about address...

It is painful for me to write that with this garrote of a blueprint, the government I generally support is flirting with moral and political...

"If it is my only option, say if something happens in the very near future, yes, I will run as an independent," Guergis said. Hmm...

Video of explosion and possible rupture at BP's oil-spill cleanup site: From here . Note: Some specualtion as to whether what we're ...

It appears that British Petroleum's attempt to cap their oil spill has gone seriously lateral. Their robot camera is looking studiously ...

Its time to throw some cold water on talk of an NDP/Liberal Coalition. Lets start with blogger Dan Arnold, expanding on pollster Frank Grave...

BP is moving along to "Junkshots" and other more desperate measures. They're saying this at The Oil Drum , and NYT has picked ...

Richard Warman has launched his own website to, as he puts it, "counter some of the nonsense out there". Suck on that.

Especially the last bit: Two months ago, the Tory government told Canadians that security costs for the two summits would be less than $200-...

The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism , like the Nieman Journalism Lab , is engaged in a number of very cool proj...

Nectocaris pteryx , one of Stephen Jay Gould's "weird wonders" from the Burgess Shale may have found a home in the Family T...