Tim Hudak must be gnashing his teeth in envy. While in Ontario, the middle-left Liberals and NDP bicker genteelly over the budget, Albertans go to the polls on April 23 in a two-party race between the right-wing Progressive Conservatives and the more-right-wing Wildrose Alliance Party. Polls show the upstart Wildrose and leader Danielle Smith are [...]

The first dump of 2011 census data released by StatsCan yesterday was a wake-up call for those of us here in Canada’s burgeoning rust belt. The numbers show that more and more Canadians, both new and old, are heading west to find their fortune. While Ontario’s population growth since the last census was 5.7 per [...]

One of Burtynsky’s images on display in Oil. Photo courtesy of the ROM. The world goes through 85-million barrels daily. To put that into perspective: 160-million gallons of crude oil will be used over the lunch hour alone. At this pace, “we have to come to terms that the age of oil is ending,” concludes [...]

Photo courtesy of Theatre Passe Muraille. Architect Theatre’s Highway 63: The Fort Mac Show is in the middle of a three-week run at Theatre Passe Muraille (TPM). It has received warm reviews from the Star, the Globe, and the Post, and even caught the attention of Margaret Atwood. These Toronto performances mark the first three-week [...]

New glass recycling program will save local municipalities millions of dollars. It turns out that you can turn used glass into other things than smaller bits of broken glass! Stephen Harper threatens to sue Stéphane Dion for libel over allegations of bribery. Harper, long an advocate of tort reform, explained that while limiting the ability [...]

Federal finance minister Jim Flaherty emphasized that today’s budget will be “frugal” in anticipation of an economic slowdown in the coming year. To demonstrate the concept in symbolic terms, Flaherty had an old pair of shoes resoled instead of buying the pair of new shoes traditionally associated with budgets. Flaherty also announced that he’s saving [...]

Two men who went on a Hollywood-worthy crime spree Saturday night and Sunday morning are being sought in a carjacking, shooting, three robberies, and a high-speed police chase. Descriptions of the suspects have now been released—if this is you, please turn yourself in. What do you give the province that has everything? That’s what Alberta [...]

Unionized Toronto Star employees met at a downtown hotel yesterday and voted 96% in favour of a strike, or as the Star itself might say, “Star Employees Vote To Strike At Hotel.” In another sign of potential economic trouble on the horizon, the benchmark TSX stock index dropped 623 points in two days. While most [...]