Author: Kev

I came across that line in a particularly nasty hate filled tirade by some zealot calling himself Gideon in the comment thread of one of Montreal Simon’s entertaining posts. He said a lot of hateful vile things but that line stuck out for me.While the …

 “When we drive around farm country we sometime see people working in fields. People who may not look like us. They are very anonymous. We don’t really know much about them. We don’t really think about them. But I think we should b…

@lesliegoodson brought this fantastic video to my attention last night on Twitter,and I thought I should share it here”Peace has somehow become, a pejorative, peace is no pejorative,peace is essential to the survival of the human race and those who adv…

I’ve had all day to digest the events in Vancouver last night,my first knee jerk reaction was how dare those idiots riot over a hockey game when they should have been peacefully demonstrating for societal change. My stance has softened somewhat as I no…

There is much animosity toward unions out there which isn’t surprising given the relentless assault waged against them by populist politicians and their mouthpieces in the corporate media, I even see it among my fellow coworkers demonstrating just how …

I read a lot of blogs each day, much preferring them to the corporate media. They run the gamut from pedestrian to brilliant, with everything in between. Today I had the pleasure to read a brilliant post by the irrepressible Min Reyes titled Letter To …

I have noticed a marked increase in the amount of traffic from right wingers that I have been getting on Twitter lately. I won’t call them trolls because to me a troll is someone who deliberately attempts to distract and disrupt a thread and the people…

 In the mid seventies the governments of Canada and Manitoba entered into an agreement to set up a program to study a Guaranteed Annual Income(GAI) which they dubbed Mincome. The study ran for three years before being terminated with all…

What we are seeing in places like the Mid East,North Africa, Europe and even the States is the inevitable push back against NeoLiberalism . I say inevitable because NeoLiberal policies  are so ruinious for the vast majority of the people that even…

Anyone who thinks that Harper’s deficit is a result of incompetence is sorely mistaken. The deficit is a deliberate creation designed to foster the conditions for selling austerity to the public, something we would never agree to unless forced into bel…

Back in early march I had a rather disheartening conversation with the 27year old son of a close friend. This young man has never known stable long term employment in his lifetime, only a series of contract and temp jobs. He told me of his predicament …

The Bob Rae government has been almost universally panned as a disaster and is being held up as an example of the dangers of electing a NDP government. The problem with this narrative is that it ignores several key facts. These omissions are likely del…