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Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Snapshot of Genocide
An excerpt from Loic Wacquant’s Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (Duke University Press 2009), pages 59-73: The Gaols of the Subproletariat: An Experimental Verification It suffices, to discern the extrapenological functions served by the outsized extension of the US carceral apparatus even as crime plummeted for
Continue readingkirbycairo: Temporary Foreign Workers and the Semi-Slave economy. . . .
Jim Flaherty, that inconceivably incompetent buffoon who calls himself a ‘finance minister,’ keeps telling us that the Conservatives needed to expand the ‘temporary foreign workers’ program because there are ‘labour shortages’ and there are many jobs ‘Canadians just wont do.’ But of course this is another in a long line of Conservative lies. Notice that they
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, April 10, 2013: Manitoba judges get pay hike Nun admits stealing $128,000 from churches; spent money at casinos Mayor Rob Ford says he will try to kill City Hall bike station with showers Supreme Court to examine
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Video message for FEMEN: ‘saving Muslim women one bra strap at a time’
A Muslimah from Manchester, England, gets her message across in this funny yet pointed video in which she thanks FEMEN ‘from the bottom of her heart’ for showing her how to campaign for women’s rights: My parents got it wrong, they seriously got it wrong…. they thought that by sending
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More On RBC’s Outsourcing From Star Readers
I have a busy morning ahead, so for now I take the liberty of reproducing two letters from this morning’s Star that make some excellent points as to how to apportion blame for the outrageous corporate practice of outsourcing Canadian jobs, most apparent in the current RBC imbroglio. As well,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The Flintstones wasn’t a documentary
Sorry, I just had to say that. Sometimes I just can’t help myself. Anyway: the fact that Stockwell Day is supporting the BC Liberals isn’t even remotely news – but Canadian Press and various aggregators are treating it as such, which I find totally bizarre. It isn’t news. He’s been
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: RBC-gate
It’s now been a full week of this Royal Bank of Canada PR disaster, and it shows no signs of abating. Is it true, as a commenter wrote yesterday, that Burson-Marsteller/National is advising the bank on this mess? Anyone who works there is free to comment, below.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My first year as a woman
A year ago, this story rocked my world, and my daughter’s, no pun intended. Against Me, and Tom Gabel, were a huge, huge deal for us. So, here’s her update on her journey, sent along by FB pal David Darling, and in Cosmo, no less: “During our shows this year,
Continue readingCalgary Grit: Final Power Rankings
There isn’t a lot of suspense surrounding Sunday’s Liberal leadership vote. Pick the metric of your choice – fundraising, endorsements, hair volume – and Trudeau leads his nearest challenger by at least a 4:1 ratio. I wouldn’t put a lot of stock in Twitter support, but Justin has 10 times
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: A Weighty Subject Indeed.
Such interesting fuss over how we measure our world. 🙂 Just play the video before I make a mass of myself. Filed under: Science Tagged: Kilogram, Science, Weights and Measures
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Winter storm watch for today!
It's springtime, but a winter storm watch is in effect. Environment Canada warns it's not snow we have to worry about. A series of low pressure systems is bringing heavy rainfall warnings. On Thursday, a stronger low will arrive from the southwest and combine with a colder airmass from the
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Alberta Federation of Labour Demands Inquiry Into Temporary Foreign Worker Program
List of ‘accelerated’ TFW approvals reveals widespread abuse of program By: Alberta Federation of Labour | Press Release: EDMONTON, April 9, 2013 – A list of fast-tracked temporary foreign worker applications shows that scandals at Royal Bank and HD Mining are just the tip of the iceberg. The document, obtained by the Alberta
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Transformation #nlpoli
Provincial Conservatives in Newfoundland and Labrador have a political philosophy that is equal parts Machiavelli, Kafka, and the Three Stooges. For the first few years they seemed to be constantly plotting and manoevring, always one step ahead of their opponents at home and abroad. Those days are gone, now, replaced
Continue readingThe Adventures of Diva Rachel: The O stands for Originality, aka the oxymoron to "Ottawa"
This article was published in The Huffington Post Canada. Read it here and post a comment! This week is momentous for legions of moms and women in general: the “Big O” is comin’ to town. Yes, the former Queen of Television, the one then-Senator Obama called “possibly the most influential
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Tar Sands: Exxon’s New “Energy Everywhere” Program (Satirical Video)
Political satirist Andy Cobb’s take on the recent ExxonMobil tar sands oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas: America’s oil industry is terribly misunderstood. When a lot of people hear “364 pipeline spills in 2012″ they think it’s a big mess, like a nearly realized advent calendar of crap. What they fail
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Harper’s Canada Posts Poor Showing on Child Well-Being
Sideshow Steve Harper doesn’t have much time for the plebs, especially the little ones – the dependent-types. UNICEF has just released a report on the well-being of children in the 29 richest countries and we finish in a miserable 17th place. Canada ranked very low in the category of health
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: "In America truth is offensive, If you tell the truth, you are offensive."
So writes former U.S. deputy treasury secretary, Paul Craig Roberts, in his column for CounterPunch, America, Land of the Lost. Roberts recently published the e-book, The Failure of Laissez-Faire Capitalism, reviewed on this blog three weeks ago. Plenty of offensive truth-telling there. Now, Roberts confronts the shrill unacceptability of being
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Gordon Warren Should Consider Hiring a Lawyer….
…. because if he doesn't, he's likely to be squashed like a bug. Then again, a lawyer might only delay the inevitable: Blogger banned from writing about brothers By: Aldo Santin Posted: 04/8/2013 11:53 AM | Last Modified: 04/8/2013 1:56 PM Internet blogger Gordon Warren will have to be careful
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