When even Fox News thinks something is unjust, you know it is a fucking catastrophe. This is going to end badly for the everyone, but especially for the Greek people. This is the ultimate example of modern neo-liberalism in action. God save the banks,…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Good tax, bad tax
News item, The Guardian, November 3, 2011:
“Bill Gates will tell the G20 group of developed and developing countries on Thursday that they could raise an extra $48bn (£30bn) a year to fight global poverty by levying a small tax on share and bond tr…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: NDP MPs to host townhall-style forum with OpenMedia.ca
On Friday, November 18th, OpenMedia.ca’s Executive Director Steve Anderson will be in Toronto with NDP MPs Andrew Cash and Charlie Angus to talk about the Conservative government’s proposed onli…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Woo-hoo!
Today is National Sandwich Day! So get out there and get yourself a Montréal smoked meat on rye! A Ham and Swiss! Salmon salad! Tomato and mayo! PB and J! A sub! A wrap! A Schwarma! Share and Enjoy: Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingMorton's Musings: A litigant is not entitled to continuous postponements to allow for the substitution of counsel
Re Jennifer Hart, 2011 NLCA 64 has some useful language about adjournments to obtain new counsel: [60] A litigant is not entitled to continuous postponements to allow for the substitution of counsel simply on the g…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Misled
Angela Hall makes the fatal mistake of presuming that right-wing spin has anything at all to do with reality:Returning to the city where he made a recent campaign promise to crack down on violent offenders, Saskatchewan Party Leader Brad Wall expressed…
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Autumn colours
Go, sit upon the lofty hill,
And turn your eyes around,
Where waving woods and waters wild
Do hymn an autumn sound.
The summer sun is faint on them —
The summer flowers depart —
Sit still — as all transform’d to stone,
Except your musing hea…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: More On Toronto G20 Incarceration Conditions
As human beings, there is really no way that we can dispute our deeply-flawed natures. Overlooking the terrible depths to which we can sink, the unspeakable cruelties each of us is capable of, and seeking to justify or rationalize away those shortcomi…
Continue readingMolly'sBlog: Molly’sBlog 2011-11-03 14:07:00
PERSONALWHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT PART 3As I’ve mentioned before, both here and on my Facebook page, the very fact that the movement has refused to set up a list of demands to the power elite is a source of strength not weakness. What the O…
Continue readingMankiw’s students walk out
So about ten percent of Mankiw’s students figured out that Mankiw is a neoliberal. Harvard students should have known that by grade six. Better late then never I suppose. Filed under: Greg Mankiw, liberal economic theory, Neoclassical, Neoliberal…
Continue readingPolitics and Entertainment: Live chat: Should we worry about Europe’s financial crisis
Live chat: Should we worry about Europe's financial crisis
Continue readingStop Online Spying
STOP ONLINE SPYING
DOES STEPHEN HARPER THINK ITS 1984?
How far is the Conservative government planning on going with its "Lawful
Access" online snooping bill?
Think police should have access to YOUR internet and cell phone records
without a warrant?
Come join the fight to stop this invasive legislation and protect our
privacy rights. If enough of us speak out now the government will have no
Morton's Musings: Social media and the Liberal Party
One of the many advantages of modern technology is the ability for ordinary people to be heard. Each one of us, as Liberals, has the opportunity to be heard not only by our friends and family but across the country. There are several ways you can …
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Oil, Cancer & Bicycles: The Unholy Alliance of The BC Cancer Foundation and Enbridge
The high-profile sponsorship of a BC cancer research charity event by the world’s biggest oil pipeline builder raises serious questions about the ethics of fundraising – and threatens to backfire for both organizations involved.Unless you never open a …
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: 16-year old charged in Kitchener killing belonged to white supremacist gang
We missed this when it was reported on October 17, but a teenager who was charged with aggravated assault in connection with the stabbing death of 60-year old John Ferreira has been linked to a Kitchener white supremacist gang called True White Boy. T…
Continue readingAt least it wasn’t Jesus
Reminds me a bit of Shrek, actually….
Continue readingCanadian Dimension Feed: “The process is the message”
Early in the occupation of Wall Street, David Graeber characterized it as a re-awakening of the radical imagination. One way to conceptualize the imaginative dimension of the Occupy Together movement is to think of it as analogous to an art project und…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: One very good reason NDP members should not choose Brian Topp as leader
After an initial response that was far warmer to the plan of Nathan Cullen to take proactive steps to throw the Harper Tories out of power in 2015, Brian Topp has decided the Cullen Plan has not merit and no support:If he does win, he has already rejec…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: And these guys came in second…
Yes, yes. Everyone knows that Hallowe’en happens in October and that Mardi Gras – Fat Tuesday – is in the spring time, before lent which is before Easter. That doesn’t matter. For some reason the locals have a Mardi Gras celebration i…
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Dream No Small Dreams – End Poverty
Should we eliminate poverty? It’s a ridiculous question made serious by people who have lost sight of their dreams in a wasteland of practicality and concession; They’re practical, to the point of inactivity where it counts the most. When a man has his feet nailed to the floor, do we stop the bleeding, but leave […]
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