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Katrina’s campaign journal: And on the 72nd day . . .

10/20/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

With this sixth installment, we conclude Katrina Kairys’s series on getting to know Canadian politics from the ground up, by volunteering during the 2015 federal election campaign. Our thanks to Katrina for keeping our readers’ spirits buoyed with her enthusiasm and humour throughout. Previous installments can be read here. By Katrina Kairys You win some. You lose some. […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Arif Virani, Canada, Canadian politics, Katrina's campaign journal, Liberals, Montreal, NDP, Toronto

Katrina’s campaign journal: 20-somethings for democracy

10/13/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

We continue Katrina Kairys’s series on getting to know Canadian politics from the ground up, by volunteering during the 2015 federal election campaign. Previous installments can be read here. By Katrina Kairys “Do we happen to have a sledge hammer? Nope? I guess I’ll have to go grab one tonight.” I give Mira a confused look. […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Canada, Canadian politics, Katrina's campaign journal, Liberals, Montreal, NDP, Quebec, youth

Katrina’s campaign journal: Election buzz

10/01/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

By Katrina Kairys This is part four in Katrina Kairys’s series on getting to know Canadian politics from the ground up, by volunteering during the 2015 federal election campaign. You can also read installments 1, 2, and 3. With less than three weeks until the election, the federal campaign is coming to a boil. Canadians […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Katrina's campaign journal, Liberals, Montreal, NDP, Quebec

Katrina’s campaign journal: Party line

09/18/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

We continue Katrina Kairys’s series on getting to know Canadian politics from the ground up, by volunteering during the 2015 federal election campaign. Read installments 1 and 2 here and here. By Katrina Kairys I was blown off last night. I really thought things were going well, and I suppose it started out okay, but we had a difference […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Katrina's campaign journal, Liberals, Montreal, NDP, Quebec

Katrina’s campaign journal: Dans Outremont

09/03/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

With this second installment, we continue Katrina Kairys’s series on getting to know Canadian politics from the ground up, by volunteering during the 2015 federal election campaign. Read Ep. 1, “New kid on the doorstep,” here. By Katrina Kairys Shortly after canvassing in Toronto, I headed to the province next door to see how the […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Katrina's campaign journal, Liberals, Montreal, NDP, Quebec, Toronto

Think the Quebec student strikes aren’t about you?

04/10/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside A one minute time lapse of the start, last week, of the student strike against austerity in Montreal: Austerity — that’s when your government impoverishes its citizens by decimating public services like education and health in order to balance its lining of corporate pockets with tax breaks. “Our services are worth more than your profits” is the slogan […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 Quebec student strike, austerity, BIll C-51, business, Canada, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Conservatives, corporations, education, health, law, Montreal, Quebec, Temporary Foreign Workers Program

The coming summer of protest

03/22/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon As you know I was so happy to see thousands of Canadians taking to the streets to let Stephen Harper and his foul Cons exactly what we think of them. Because I will never understand why we have remained so passive and so quiet for so many years, while Harper and his Cons raped […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Conservatives, Montreal, protest, Quebec, Stephen Harper

Béliveau: An Hab even a Leafs fan could love

12/03/2014 By the editor Leave a Comment

By Rod Mickleburgh As a diehard Leafs fans in the late 50’s and all through the 60’s, I don’t feel qualified to say much about the magnificent Jean Béliveau, who gave up the game Tuesday night, after a long skirmish in the corner with numerous afflictions. As always, it took more than one of them […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Canada, hockey, Montreal, Montreal Canadiens, Quebec, sports, Toronto, Toronto Maple Leafs

Bit by Bitcoin

05/04/2014 By the editor 1 Comment

A BoB Short The popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin has landed in Canada, and it may soon be making an appearance in your city. The open-source, digital currency has proven popular since its inception in 2009, with proponents often pointing to the fact that it is decentralized, and therefore not controlled by banks as conventional currencies are. […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: business, Canada, crypto currency, Edmonton, Halifax, money, Montreal, Quebec City, Saskatoon, Toronto, Vancouver

Start with coats

12/16/2013 By backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Dave Brindle Last year, at the beginning of winter in Edmonton, where the number of street kids is close to 225, Andrew Gagnon was visiting a friend who works with local at-risk youth. “What can I do? What do you need?” he asked her. “Coats,” she said. Gagnon went to his Facebook page, and […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Canada, Edmonton, homelessness, LGBTQ, Montreal, religion, sexuality, Toronto, Winnipeg, youth

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