In case you have not yet seen this beautiful video, and even if you have: enjoy. Merci, Quebec! Merci, merci, merci!
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wmtc: b*tches in bookshops: don’t let me forget this page
Books, bookstores, and New York City! Plus hip hop girls. This video has it all. Thanks to Stephanie.
Continue readingwmtc: we movie to canada: annual wmtc movie awards, 2011-12 edition
Our 2011-12 Movie Season was a strange one, as we’re gravitating towards watching more series and fewer films. I also didn’t have a good source for quality movies on DVD for a while. But we did see several good movies and even better series. A special shout-out to our friends
Continue readingwmtc: a very important act you can take to "support the troops" and help a family in need
Click here to help the Brockway family adopt Buddha! Every donation makes a difference. Every dollar will move them closer to their goal. * * * * A US veteran commits suicide once every 80 minutes. In the US, for every soldier killed on the battlefield this year, about 25
Continue readingwmtc: montreal, nous t’aimons! show us how it’s done!
On the 100th day of student protests, 250,000 people take to the streets! Supporters bang on pots and pans from their windows! Solidarity rallies in New York and Paris! Montreal, we are with you!
Continue readingwmtc: ten things everyone should know about the quebec student movement
From Coop média de Montréal: 1. The issue is debt, not tuition. 2. Striking students in Quebec are setting an example for youth across the continent. 3. The student strike was organized through democratic means and with democratic aim. 4. This is not an exclusively Quebecois phenomenon. 5. Government officials
Continue readingwmtc: solidarity with striking quebec students. shame on charest and all supporters of bill 78.
I haven’t blogged much about the enormous, sustained and absolutely brilliant student strikes and demonstrations in Quebec. I’ve just been watching them from afar with admiration and deep respect. Now that the Quebec government has adopted the draconian Bill 78, the stakes are raised even higher. The students and unions
Continue readingwmtc: montana board says canadian man should die. harper government does nothing.
Five years have passed since Stockwell Day, then Minister of Public Safety, announced that the Harper Government would not intervene to help save the life of Ronald Allen Smith. Smith is a Canadian citizen on death row in the US state of Montana. The Harper Government later backpedaled, saying it
Continue readingwmtc: jean craighead george, 1919 – 2012
Jean Craighead George, author of some classics of children’s literature, died a few days ago. In one of those eerie coincidences that seem to happen so often, I was just talking about George. At the library, I noticed that one of my favourite childhood books, My Side of the Mountain,
Continue readingwmtc: a trip down memory lane with wmtc
Combing through some old files, I found this lovely bit: a comment from “GarySTJ”, a former troll who was obsessed with me for a time. I used to delete his comments, then past them into posts so wmtc readers could have fun kicking him around. After being banned from wmtc,
Continue readingwmtc: good news all around: etobicoke centre results thrown out, montreal students and unions stand united
The 2011 federal election results for Etobicoke Centre have been thrown out. Yes! We’re still waiting to hear the details. and Unions and students are standing united against Charest’s attempts to punish them and shut them down. Quebec students are fighting for all of us. If only the students of
Continue readingwmtc: what are you doing next saturday night? join the discussion: "can we stop the harper agenda?" featuring brigette depape
On Saturday, May 26, Brigette DePape, the former parliamentary page who disrupted the 2011 Throne Speech, will speak on a panel discussing how we can make her two-word protest a reality. The panel also includes: • Tasha Peters, an Ottawa-based organizer, activist, and member of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition.
Continue readingwmtc: avaaz petition: new plan to save the planet
Avaaz has a new petition out, which they’re calling “a new plan to save the planet”. I’m more than a tad skeptical about Avaaz petitions, but it only takes a click, it can’t hurt, and it’s worthwhile if only to see the vast numbers of people who agree. And who
Continue readingwmtc: the whole world is watching: veterans to return medals in nato/poverty protests this weekend
All eyes will be on Chicago this weekend, as thousands of protesters from all over North American converge on the the NATO summit. The symbolism could not be more trenchant, as Chicago was the scene of protests and rebellion against an earlier US war, and famously out-of-control police violence. Iraq
Continue readingwmtc: canadian council of churches calls on jason kenney to let u.s. war resisters stay in canada
This letter was hand-delivered to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, from the Canadian Council of Churches. The Council is the largest ecumenical body in Canada, representing 23 churches, comprising 85% of the Christians in Canada. 15 May 2012The Honourable Jason Kenney, P.C., M.P.Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and MulticulturalismCitizenship and Immigration CanadaOttawa,
Continue readingwmtc: open letter to jason kenney: "history is tapping our shoulders"
Last night in Toronto, supporters of US war resisters in Canada honoured International Day for Conscientious Objection with a group letter-writing session. This letter was written by Nicole Marie Burton, the partner of war resister Jules Tindungan. It affected me deeply, and I asked Nicole for permission to share it
Continue readingwmtc: today is international day of conscientious objection – call on the govt to let them stay!
Celebrate International Day for Conscientious Objection by calling on the government to rescind Operational Bulletin 202 Today, May 15, is the International Day for Conscientious Objection. Please join us in calling for the elimination of Immigration Minister Kenney’s Operational Bulletin 202. OB202 directs immigration officers to refer the cases of
Continue readingwmtc: healthy eating costs more. fact or fiction?
Conventional wisdom has it that healthy foods cost more than junk food, that buying and preparing nutritious food is more expensive than eating processed food. How many people bemoan the supposed fact that low-income people cannot afford to eat healthfully: “When carrots are less expensive than chips, then everyone will
Continue readingwmtc: canadian doctors protest cuts to refugee health care
Bravo to the hundreds of Canadian family doctors who protested the dismantling of the refugee health care system! There was a demonstration in Ottawa, occupations of MP’s offices in Winnipeg and Toronto, and press conferences in other cities. “I just cannot understand how my government can take the most vulnerable
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