Archive 1997-2016
When Victor “Lloyd” Clemett signed up with the 93rd Battalion in 1916 he lied about his age. The boy soon sailed across the broad north Atlantic. On the other side he hoped to find – and fight alongside – his three older brothers.
With a federal election on the horizon, Canada’s political elite are frantically beating their chests and sniping at one another. This time ‘round, all are trying to prove that it is, in fact, their party that has the greatest environmental zeal.
Stéphane Dion, freshly minted leader of the federal Liberals, recently announced he is willing to take “extraordinary measures” to ensure his party fields 33 per cent female candidates in the next election.
Ottawa’s new mayor is fighting tooth and nail for a property tax freeze in the city’s ongoing budget negotiations. The stakes are high and Larry O’ Brien’s credibility is on the line: he ran a simple campaign centered on the bold promise to freeze property taxes for four years.