Today in the House of Commons Canadians will be witnessing a rare sight -- a voting marathon. I wish I could say it's a celebration of democracy, but it's not. It's a sign of a government that has lost its way and is undermining accountability with its Trojan Horse Budget Bill.

Instead of introducing a straight-forward bill that implements their budget, Stephen Harper's Conservatives decided to use the budget bill to sneak through changes that gut environmental protection, give broad new powers over employment insurance to the Minister and eliminates large portions of the Fisheries Act.

As the world turns its attention to the UN Climate Change talks in Copenhagen in mid-December, there are twin crises on the minds of world leaders.  Not only will they need to confront the growing global concern about climate change, but they also need to keep in mind the urgent economic crisis still gripping most of the world's economies. 

The OECD is predicting that our current unemployment rate of 8.4 per cent will rise to over 10 per cent by next year.

On Saturday, hundreds of CTC supporters created a Human Train from Weston to Queen St. to protest plans by Metrolinx, the Ontario Government's transportation agency, to run polluting diesel trains along the rail corridor from Union Station to Pearson Airport. This is a fun, funny, creative movement that is determined to protect the quality of life along this rail corridor. Check out some of the YouTube postings.