Jim Flaherty hosted the G7 finance ministers in Iqaluit, but Canadians got little sense of something else he was up to: obstructing worldwide momentum for a tax on financial speculation.

After three decades of progress towards equality and full human rights, women have experienced the full force of Harper's visceral disdain for the notion of women's equality.

The auditor general's report has done more than churn up troubling stuff. It has in a sense taken the pulse of our politics after some 20 years of malfunction.

Sasha's tips on how to care for your business after a wild night out, avoiding STIs and grooming safely.

Howard Zinn died last week at the age of 87. Best known for his most famous book "A People's History of the United States," Zinn was a legendary historian, author and activist.

The H1N1 of the economy: It's baaack, the bogeyman of the 1990s and, before that, the 1980s: deficit hysteria. Get out the old Halloween masks.

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling will allow greater corporate influence in our lives -- a direct threat to personal freedom for U.S. and Canadian citizens.

"Find a job doing something you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life," or so the saying goes. Unless you get laid off, and face a lot of work...finding a new job.

I hate to be grim, but there's this gnawing question in the air: Is democracy in trouble? If so, what does it mean? In both Canada and the U.S., what's transpiring is astonishing.

What do you do when you are a monogamous person in a long-term committed relationship with someone who is polyamorous and he falls in love with his lover?

The saddest event in politics is the death of the hope that things can basically change. This genre of loss involves a setback not just to an individual but to a population.

Ontario announced a $7 billion breakthrough deal for green energy last week that fans say puts the province in the forefront of the North American renewable energy industry.

The devastating toll of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti continues to mount. Haitians need to be allowed into the United States, legally, compassionately and immediately.

By now it should be obvious that American capitalism is not working for the benefit of its "middle" class let alone the minority who are being crushed by poverty, including the growing suburban poor.

Right-wingers like Scott Brown hide the elitism of their agenda by presenting themselves as ordinary working types who may have just slaughtered something with their bare hands in the back shed.

Stephen Harper has reaped a whirlwind of protest for his shutting down of Parliament. Could this cynical prorogation be the straw that broke the camel's back?

Outside responses to the Haiti earthquake have come with smug side helpings of superiority and self-congratulation.

Let's face it, our response to the crisis in Hait is mirrored in almost every country in the world. In our case, it's somewhat tinged with irony, given the ominous defunding of KAIROS late last year.

Looking at the year past there are two things that dominate and show us where the future is most likely headed.

Haiti, a country born in courage, faces its greatest challenge. Activists for disaster relief should make immediate forgiveness of every dollar of the Haitian debt a top priority.

Big wind farms in financial or deadline trouble are almost daily fare on the business pages these days. Here's stuff we should know while we still have time to reset our options.

Sasha Van Bon Bon gives advice on falling in love with a prostitute and safe sex toys.

Stephen Harper said that prorogation isn't No. 1 on anyone's radar. Yet, now half of Canadians say they are watching the issue "closely," and he's in a virtual tie with the Liberal leader.

Hundreds flooded the unmiked basement space in Hart House booked for the Friday, January 8, organizing meeting for the January 23 anti-prorogue rally.

We're not even half way through January and we've already seen more tablets than at a Hunter S. Thompson house party.