I almost never spend any time reading material from the right-wing blogosphere — I can appreciate that understanding the discourse of various categories of opponents is worthwhile, and I respect those like thwap who occasionally put energy into argume…
Continue readingHere’s To The State Of The Golden Era….Verse 4
.Here’s to the Land of the People Rising…Who see the Golden Era….Now is cached with rust…Who stared down the Leader…Iron fist soon turned to dust…And who see in his Replacement a Charlatan they can’t…..Trust..
Continue readingAmerican "pro-life" legislators: keep the fetus, throw away the mother
Anyone who continues to imagine that the USA is a civilized country isn’t paying attention. Yesterday the House of Representatives, by a wide margin, voted to condemn pregnant women to death. Besides excluding abortion from medicare coverage (assuming the US…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Pop Quiz: Can You Detect The Bias In This News Report?
Hint: it’s from a Fox affiliate.Recommend this Post
Continue readingA Blog By James Curran: R.I.P Reg
More sad news in the political world. Reg Alcock was a giant in the world of Canadian Parliamentarians. It’s a great loss to all.
Continue readingEvilness: Yet more Conservative Corruption.
CBC has broken a story about local municipalities donating money to the Alberta Progressive Conservative Pary. There are several aspects of this story that are truly depressing and scary.
Continue readingGerald Caplan: welcome to Fox TV Canada
Sometimes the Globe manages to print some good stuff. Such is the case with Gerald Caplan and his darkly humorous column today on the Conservatives’ drive to own not just a portion of the media but all of it.Public money, after all, brings all the…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Canada’s Billionaires
Just in time for the “Occupy Bay Street” protest this weekend, Canadian Business magazine has come out with its annual listing of the richest 100 people in Canada. So in honour of the protestors and their noble cause (demanding more attention to the 99%, instead of the 1%), let’s peruse together the sordid details of […]
Continue reading350 or bust: Occupy Wall Street: Democracy Only Good When It Breaks Out In Libya, Not America
“I am not moving”, a powerful video from Occupy Wall Street.
Continue readingHere and there for a rainy Friday…
Geez, this weather sucks, especially when I’m riding the bicycle on a full-time basis. Anyhoo, some random nonsense for a grey and gloomy Friday afternoon – at least until I can hit the Huron Club… First off, so far, haven’t been able to spark enough interest in an Occupy Collingwood event; I thought with town […]
Collective bargaining in Canada: a reprise
I see that I am not alone in regarding Lisa Raitt’s assault on unions as a grim harbinger of the future of labour relations in Canada. Here’s the Globe&Mail’s Rod Mickleburgh: Ms. Raitt is doing her best to accelerate her…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Trish Hennessy is on board for an Occupy Canada movement:To my friends adopting a wait-and-see approach, I say: The least they can expect from progressives who have been criticizing the system (some since Woodstock) …
Continue readingMorton's Musings: Drabinsky denied bail pending appeal
R. v. Drabinsky, 2011 ONCA 647 was released about an hour ago. Drabinsky was denied bail pending appeal: [4] This application is gove…
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Small Business and the Attack on Unions
In case you had any doubts where the escalating attack on Canadian unions is coming from, check out the web site of the Canadian Labour Watch Association. The Labour Watch site provides detailed information and advice to individual workers and employers on how to fight unionization drives and how to decertify existing unions, including by […]
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Harper Govt Says FU To Environment
Harper kills environment. Not much of a surprise, but painful nonetheless.
Continue readingCalgaryGrit: Rule Britannia
Stephen Harper speaks out in favour of “modernizing” the rules for succession when it comes to selecting Britain’s, and Canada’s, head of state….just so long as this modernization doesn’t including allowing Canada’s head of state to be Catholic, Cana…
Continue readingA Different Point of View....: ‘Occupy Wall Street’ gets our attention while 3-billion in the South sink deeper into poverty
It is next-to-impossible to comprehend the magnitude of world poverty. See if you can visualize the faces of three billion people, many of them hungry children, flashing past your face on a giant TV screen, one at a time. Imagine how long that would ta…
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Occupy NB Moncton
The Moncton demonstration will most probably be small, but I will be there, and hope many others will be, as we do our small part in the global ‘occupy’ protests October 15th.I just saw in +Daniel Lemire this link to a Bloomburg post http://buswk.co/ny…
Continue readingOccupy Wall Street—a Sixties moment?
Is Occupy Wall Street a Sixties’ moment? Will it bring about lasting change or simply fade away? Either way, it is overdue. Started in New York, inspired by the Arab Spring, it has now spread throughout the U.S. and beyond. The views of the participant…
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