Luke's Canadian Blog

The city of Toronto is just recovering from a typically nasty, and atypically long, election campaign. We are still languishing in that daze...

After some six years of hiatus, I'm thinking I may take up my blog again. Not because I think anyone will read it - that never seemed to...

Last week the Globe and Mail ran an excellent eight-part series of in-depth articles about the Canadian oil patch - the oil sands of Alberta...

During this last week, the Toronto District School Board trustees have narrowly but definitively passed a contentious motion to open the doo...

An article by Doug Saunders in this weekend's Globe and Mail touches on something I have always wondered about, and now has me wonderin...

The worst possible reason for a blog entry is to assure people that I am still alive. Clearly, given that my last entry was a full month ago...

Ho hum. Another major climate change summit, more prevaricating, and more embarrassing Canadian inaction (or, worse, negative action). At th...

A friend alerted me to an interesting website www.kiva.org , which is a microfinancing/microplan operation designed to facilitate the bringi...