LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG: FORUM ON ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND BUSINESS:****************************** –WhenThursday, December 8, 2011Time5:00pm until 8:00pmWhereJames W. Burns Executive Education Centre , 177 Lombard Ave (2nd floor), Winnipeg, ManitobaDescriptionhttp://myuminfo.umanitoba.ca/index.asp?sec=712&too=200&eve=8&dat=12%2F8%2F2011&epa=52596Reception:Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served.What Does “Occupy” Mean to Business and How Should Businesses Respond?The I.H. Asper School of Business is
Continue readingA Blog By James Curran: It’s Jason Cherniak that Should Resign…
…Along with the rest of the LPCOntario Management Committee of the Executive. Jason is arguing for the immediate resignation of National Executive Policy Chair Joan Bourassa over on Facebook. I”m of the opinion that I guy not doing HIS job should not being calling for someone else’s resignation for apparently
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Greg Weston nicely chronicles Peter MacKay’s flat-out lies about how he came to take a $30,000 helicopter ride. And while Weston despairs about the likelihood that MacKay will pay any price, he does point out why we shouldn’t accept anything less: Few things
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: Journalism and the Toronto G20
The final major piece of work that I have to do for school before the break is a paper looking at some of the ways that the G20 summit in Toronto in 2010 showed up in media discourse. I’ve dived back into that assignment in the last day or two
Continue readingLeDaro: Herman Cain: Should I stay? Or should I quit?
That is the question? Poor Herman! Pleasure carries pain.
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: New Franke James Video: Give Harper the Call
0_FrankeOnTheHill_2_web.jpg Even as the Harper government works overtime to represent the oil industry (and humiliate Canadians) at climate talks in Durban, South Africa, the tireless and ridiculously optimistic Franke James tries again to make her point: that tying the Canadian economy – and the world's future – to dirty oil
Continue readingThe Sixth Estate: Sixth Estate Announces Inaugural Weekly Flack Award for Worst Government Press Release
Government press releases have probably never been, shall we say, the go-to source for reasoned and well-informed commentary on the issues of the today. They are, rather, propaganda, pure and simple. But they have taken a definite turn for the worse under the Harper regime. This turn isn’t merely a
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Rift Between the Lemire Family and Fromm over Money?
Perhaps we’re reading a bit much into this. Fromm and Lemire at the “George Orwell”Awards the year Mark and ConnieFournier won. Perhaps not. Paul Fromm and Marc Lemire have a relationship that goes back to at least the mid 1990s when Lemire hosted Paulie’s websites on his own Freedom-Site (along
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Jewish Teen Atttacked in Winnipeg
Attack on Jewish teen ‘shocking’ Hair burned with lighter by fellow student By: Gabrielle Giroday and Mike McIntyre Posted: 12/3/2011 8:58 AM A POLICE probe is underway into an incident at a Winnipeg high school involving a student with Nazi links who reportedly used a lighter to burn the hair
Continue readingBlast Furnace Canada Blog: Harper’s "Office for Relgious Freedom": Another Newspeak front?
Dubya got into a lot of hot water in many circles with his so-called “faith based initiative” (which President Obama has actually continued and broadened to include people of faith who are LGBT) and now Harper appears to want to go down the same path with something called the “Office
Continue readingMore Attawapiskat facts
…to counter Conservative spin and popular ignorance. Some useful Saturday reading. Briefly, successive governments put the Attawapiskat people where they are, invented rules, regulations and prohibitions to keep them there, and are now blaming them for being snared in the trap we built. The Conservative government is sending in an
Continue readinggay persons of color: Video: Thousands march in Sydney after ALP votes to support marriage equality
While the marriage equality movement is still in its early stages in Australia, it certainly took a big step forward with the ruling Australian Labor Party (ALP) decision Saturday to support gay marriage. This came after a conscience vote on the issue (called by the country’s anti-gay marriage leader, Prime
Continue readingMorton's Musings: "Those communities really shouldn’t exist"
So reads the headline on a two-page story in the Post which talks about 'voluntary relocation' for remote First Nations and Inuit communities. A comment noted in bold in the editorial section suggested stopping the 'gravy train' and said (this part was in bold) "If native populations choose not to
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Anti-Trudeau
Stephen Harper despised Pierre Trudeau. He was nine years old when Trudeau became prime minister, and twenty-five when Trudeau retired. Watching Harper pontificate and react, one gets the impression that Mr. Trudeau was the bogeyman who haunted Stephen Harper’s childhood nightmares. Indeed, it’s not too much of a stretch to
Continue readingConservative war on the CBC: a succinct response
A CBC veteran explains for the hard of thinking why the CBC is not like other broadcasters, and how it is being hung out to dry by its competitor Quebecor via Conservative puppets in the House of Commons. Go read. [H/t OakBayBoy, via deBeauxOs]
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: A Half a Century Later and We are Losing Half a Century
The Canadian Manifesto: How the American Neoconservatives Stole My Country In researching the conservative movement on both sides of the border, one thing becomes clear. In the U.S. they don’t like to be referred to as Republican any more than Stephen Harper likes to be called a Tory. They are CONSERVATIVE,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Me, Uncle Ben’s, And Fox News North: Will Uncle Ben’s Pull Its Advertising?
As a few people have noted elsewhere, Sun TV has been running gay-bashing/transphobic ads from McVety’s gang at the Institute for Canadian Values, and this has spawned a campaign on to boycott Fox News North advertisers. Having watched the ads a couple of times (sorry, though, no link–SDMatt, the source of
Continue readingPample the Moose: Publications!
Just a quick post today to announce two new publications that I’m excited about. The first is my new edited collection, Contemporary Quebec: Selected Readings and Commentaries, which I co-edited with Michael Behiels at the University of Ottawa. We’ve been working on this book for the last six years (yikes!)
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Democrats are Dreaming
In a somewhat strange turn of events it seems the Democrats who contiguous talk themselves as being the party that will save Social Security is now the party that quite frankly is giving it lip service. The Payroll tax (the tax that generates a lot of income for Social Security) is at
Continue reading350 or bust: For The Children, Let’s Turn This World Around
With Raffi, the Gettin Higher Choir, vocalist Kim Willoughby and Kid Power! (conducted by Shivon Robinsong):
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