Author: Kev

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Einstein Robert Scheer’s column over at truthdig.com is well worth a read.What he has to say is every bit as relevant to Canada as the US, for we have been trav…

If you are familiar with Bill Hicks then you know what to expect, but for those who aren’t there will be some shall we say colurful language  ENJOY!

“Gestation crates” are metal stalls measuring approximately 0.7 m by 2m, barely larger than a sow. This crate is specifically designed to severely restrict a sow’s movement.The use of gestation crates in the pork industry (you certainly can’t ca…

We have come full circle and a have once again been reduced to the lowly status of a colony, whose sole raison d’etre is to serve it’s imperialist master. Where we were once ruled from London our new bosses are now in Washington, different sides of the…

Still believe corporate tax cuts will create jobs,then perhaps you should have a listen to what Nomi Prins, author of It Takes a Pillage,has to say. While she discusses the American situation,what she has to say is applicable to Canada as well. It is…

McGuinty came to office promising to undo much of the damage done to the people of Ontario by Mike Harris , he has failed miserably. Indeed he hasn’t even tried, instead he has just heaped more misery upon those who had been hurt the worst. No where is…

While this column is written in an American context, it is also applicable in a Canadian oneYet even as their share of the nation’s total income has withered, the tax burden on the middle has grown. Today’s working and middle-class taxpayers are …

In the neo-con world science is bad except when it is corporately funded of course. I just wish these bastards would keep away from our food supply. When will this madness end.Scientists have created genetically modified cattle that produce “human” mil…

Those of us who were around in 1994 will remember the ” Debt Wall Crisis” that was used as justification for the huge cuts to Canada’s social safety net, cuts that we have never recovered from.The problem with the whole debt wall meme, is that it was p…

500,000 Brits peacefully march to protest Britain’s austerity program,yet there has been nary a word from the corporate media. What little attention that they have paid has as usual been focused on the few idiots that provide the authorities with the e…

Hundreds of thousands of Brits took to the streets of London of Saturday, protesting draconian cuts to services and demanding  that the rich and the corporations pay their fair share, unfortunately a few hundred Black Bloc idiots made themselves t…