Any observer of the hardball game of politics has to give Alberta's budget an A+ for pre-election optics, even if it only gets a C- for prognostication.

rabble.ca weekly roundup dives into everything from Valentine's Day to Attawapiskat to CBC Reads and the Enbridge pipeline, with a list of fantastic posts by fantastic bloggers.

Successive federal governments have failed to recognize our oceans as much more than reservoirs of resources to exploit for short-term gain.

It's the beginning of the end for Internet throttling, and Openmedia.ca's newest campaign is coming into play as the hotly contested Bill C-11 moves through the House of Commons.

The Parliamentary Budget Office just issued a report saying that, contrary to Conservative claims, the OAS and other elderly benefits are sustainable, long term.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is basking in the uncritical media reporting of his state visit to China. His "open for business" message has been very well received in Beijing.

With some slight delays, we make our way across the ice road, and to the community of Attawapiskat.

A5X, a growing group of citizens, are urging people to contact Jean Charest and other politicians to save the Wakefield Spring and old-growth trees in Gatineau Park.

Three Canadians who were forcibly abducted from the Canadian ship Tahrir by Israel and detained without charge this past fall, are demanding the government press Israel to return the boat.

Ahhh, love letters. We admit, we like a compliment or two, and last year when we did our visitor's survey we got some nice notes. Know what else warms our hearts? Pledges of support!

No one's being held responsible, but the successful upstart candidate in a Calgary Conservative riding nomination has been dumped because of unspecified voting irregularities.

The South March Highlands is one of the most bio-diverse areas remaining in urban Canada.

Did the HarperCons have poor science education? Because it's clear they're not responding to the science on the Enbridge project. What interest does it serve the government in ignoring science?

Ending gender violence, remembering missing and murdered aboriginal women, banning bottled water, using tumblr for activists and more!

Between LNG and Enbridge, Kitimat is poised to become an export platform for the two most environmentally controversial practices of the oil and gas industry: shale gas and tar sands extraction.

Caterpillar's approach to labour relations is just one example of the growing evidence that capital and its right-wing political minions are determined to eradicate what's left of organized labour.

The panel reviewing the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline seems unable to comprehend or consider the Indigenous concepts being brought before them.

This is a portion of a blog written by Julian Ichim regarding his G20 court case.

Valentine's Day flies in the face of love. Occupy love. Occupy Valentine's Day.

The last blog entry on Blind Man with a Pistol contained unpublished research that was not my own and material from private meetings made public without the consent of all contributing parties.

It's perfectly clear what's going on here. The Alberta Conservative campaign strategy is to say nothing, nothing at all, that can get the government in trouble.

As the HarperCon delegation of ministers and big biz boyz prepared to take off for China, the wise Yinka Dene Nation through whose lands the Northern Gateway pipeline is proposed to go, were busy.

In a carefully worded directive, obtained by Canadian Press through the Access to Information Act, Public Safety Minister Vic Towes instructs CSIS to accept information under torture.

Canada Reads should be a beautiful thing: our public broadcaster celebrating Canadian books and authors. Readers and writers in Canada deserve better than what has happened on this year's edition.

Chelby Marie Daigle recounts her great time spent being a "book" in the Human Library in Ottawa.

On Day 4 our trucks arrived by train to Moosonee. We walked the three kilometers from Moose Factory to pick them up.

From any common sense position, the Fraser Institute fails to meet the Canada Revenue Agency's test for political activity and should lose its charitable status.

On day three, our truck is loaded on a train bound for Moosonee. We board the Polar Bear Express.

The editor of Haiti's largest-circulation weekly newspaper describes what U.S. diplomatic cables reveal about how foreign political interference lies at the root of so much of Haiti's ills.

As we close in on one year of Stephen Harper's majority, it is evident that this is a very special government. YOU are just not on its list of priorities.