Green Party member Chris Aikman, writing for the party’s admittedly hit-and-miss blog network, scored a potential hit last night by quoting a post by Guy Dauncey of EcoNews. “Coalition governments are probably the best way to govern, not the worst,” Dauncey writes. “In the European Union, 20 of the 27 member nations have coalition governments. […]

There’s a certain sad irony to a paid Conservative staffer taking to his Facebook page to condemn the “stupidity” of his own party’s communications staff. But that’s exactly what a junior staffer named Tony Phillips did last week, according to the National Post. “Can someone in the [campaign war room] please save the PM’s image […]

Writer and environmental icon Rachel Carson, perhaps best known for the seminal Silent Spring, was once accused of “ignoring God” in her 1951 bestseller on oceanography and the ecosystem, The Sea Around Us. Her reply, as quoted in the collection Courage for the Earth, was as follows: “As far as I’m concerned, there is absolutely […]