Graphic novel Understanding the Crash features stories of struggles against speculative economics are skillfully outlined. From the Miami housing market bubble burst that ignited housing rights struggles, to community struggles for affordable housing in Cleveland, the book etches a detailed picture of a corrupt economic system and stories on grassroots organizing for change.
Continue readingQP: The problem with vague motions
With news that the federal government will
be announcing plans to replace the beleaguered Champlain Bridge tomorrow,
Nycole Turmel kicked off Question Period by playing another round of the
Champlain Bridge drinking game, at which point Har…
Environmental Law Alert Blog: Climate change is not an accident
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Companies that are emitting a lot of greenhouse gas emissions – inc…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Government Watchdog Report Confirms Canada’s Failures on Tar Sands Monitoring and Climate Action
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Canada's top environmental watchdog official released a damning report today acknowledging the federal government's complete failure to account for the …
Continue readingTerahertz: Let’s open all the books
It’s no secret that the Harper Conservatives hate unions. They’ve repeatedly emphasized how the NDP is beholden to Big Labour and tried to force an inquiry into partial union sponsorship of a recent federal conference. They’ve reduced the rights to collective bargaining, forced back to work legislation on Canada Post and threatened it upon Air […]
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: NDP Leadership Roundup
A few very quick updates since my last commentary on the NDP leadership race…Martin Singh, Nathan Cullen and Paul Dewar are in, while Thomas Mulcair should be shortly (with Phil Edmonston’s endorsement). Brian Topp’s new endorsers include Libby Davie…
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: About Those Forum Research Polls
The media seems to be obsessed with the Forum Research polls, the new guru of the polling industry.However, I received a call from them on the Ontario election and phoned them back, as they said I could, but never received a rely, as they promised I wo…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Power Workers Union Rethinking "Social Media" Campaign?
oth their fake blogs, Enviralment and Envirogy are “undergoing scheduled maintenance”. We’ll see for how long, and what comes out the other side.Background here.h/t Scott in the comments.
Continue readingTerahertz: Troofer is no Gandhi
I subscribe to a lot of blogs and news feeds and read a lot in a day. Out of all of these words that cross my eyes, some are worth sharing, and appear on my Google+ or Facebook streams. Some annoy me a bit more and I feel like writing about them. Sometimes I have […]
Continue readingDumbasses on parade.
Courtesy of the Globe and Mail.
The "report on business" reporter Michael Babad is fulfilling his purpose , deriding the #OccupyWallStreet protests happening in Vancouver, because it will be at the Art Gallery. Oh, he says he gets this who…
Continue readingLoss of party subsidy is loss for democracy
Democracy is about political equality. To be democratic, a political system must in essence belong to all the people equally, and if it is to belong to all the people equally, all the people must fund it equally. One person/one dollar may not be as imp…
Continue readingLeDaro: Obama Kentucky Fried Burger
Available in China only. Sounds crazy to me. Read the story here.
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Undercutting Industry
Stephen H. Foerster write, on OER-forum: > The logic is that it’s inappropriate for governmentto undercut private industry. There are many cases where it is appropriate forgovernment to, as you say, ‘undercut indu…
Continue readingMiami New Times fails again
Christ, what is it with news sources out of Miami? They may be close to the Caribbean, but for all their proximity, they still can’t report on Latin America for shit. Case in point: this silly puff piece from the Miami New Times… Even in death, Carlos Andres Perez managed to ruffle his nemesis Hugo […]
Continue readingthe woodshed: saving summer in a jar
We took my visiting in-laws to the farmers market last week and bought a bushel of sweet red peppers. My mother-in-law couldn’t figure what the heck I was going to do with them all or how we could eat a whole bushel before they spoiled. Fortunately, I …
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Debunking Toews: Warrantless online spying is anything but "balanced"
Pro-Internet community member Valerie Vuillemot recently wrote to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and Industry Minister Christian Paradis, expressing concerns about usage-based billing (Internet metering) and the impending “Lawful Access” (online spyi…
Continue readinggritchik: Hudak supports homophobic flyer, doesn’t support choice
Kind of tells you everything you need to know about Tim Hudak.
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Private Member Bill on Union Financial Disclosure
Conservative MP Russ Hiebert tabled his private member bill in the Commons yesterday, calling for changes to the Income Tax Act to require unions (which are income-tax-exempt under the Act … duh! since they are, after all, non-profit organizations) to publicly disclose their financial statements. Here are a few quick points that came to mind in […]
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Perry Down – Protesters Up
Rick Perry is now dropping in the polls, with Mitt Romney taking the lead.I guess having a ranch named “Niggerhead” didn’t win him any points. The Tea Partiers would have loved it, but the Republican leader has to be able to win over more than the…
Continue readingHeroes for Today: Jesse LaGreca nails FUX Snooze
This was making the rounds on Facebook yesterday:
FUX didn’t air this. Gee, I wonder why…
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