The next time we hear as received media wisdom that it’s politically toxic to abandon a huge share of Saskatchewan’s resource wealth to the corporate sector will be the first. And I’ve yet to hear anybody make the case that devolving provincial resourc…
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Accidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: September 28, 2011
Wednesday’s Day in Review comes a day later than usual. But I’ll plan to stick to the new schedule for future editions, as the anchors which nicely point to interventions from the current day seem to have a habit of disappearing later. The Big IssueOnc…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Parliament In Review: September 26, 2011
Monday’s session in the House of Commons was dominated by the debate over another military extension in Libya. The Big IssueOnce again, the Cons were able to win a vote for perpetual military action with the support of the Libs and Bloc. But it wasn’t …
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Sexy Indian Princess Plus Costume
Four years ago, I was writing about HalloweenMart’s Sexy Indian Squaw costume. They’re back at it again this year with another take on being a sexy Indian for Halloween. Is it racist? Is it sexist? Is it offensive on any other level? If you would like to share your opinion of this costume with HalloweenMart, […]
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- David Olive weighs in on the disastrous results of the all-too-prevalent obsession with austerity when economic conditions are still fragile around the globe:From London to Berlin, and Ottawa to Washington, the w…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Armine Yalnizyan points out how inequality is bad for everybody – including those at the top who are fighting to exacerbate it:Say the word “inequality,” and many people automatically assume you’re talking abou…
Continue reading350 or bust: First Nations Women Arrested For Protesting Hydrolic Fracking On Their Land, Charged with “Intimidation”
lle-Máijá Apiniskim Tailfeathers, one of the women arrested this weekend for peacefully protesting the plan to “frack” on Blood Reserve land, released this statement yesterday: On September 9, 2011, we gathered peacefully on the road lead…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Photo Essay on Canada’s Filthy Tar Sands – This Is Why Keystone XL Must Be Stopped
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Robert van Waarden, an excellent photographer and friend of DeSmogBlog, has compiled this great visual essay on Canada’s filthy tar sands to show people just a…
Continue reading7000 Generations Walk Against Nuclear Waste
Pinehouse to Regina 7000 Generations Walk Against Nuclear Waste please think about where you can join us. Talk to your friends and family to see if they’re interested to support this walk by walking/driving/providing food /water/transportation et…
Continue reading350 or bust: Shape Up Or Ship Out: A Northern Perspective On Global Warming
Xavier Kataquapit is originally from Attawapiskat, Ontario on the James Bay coast. In his popular newspaper column, Under the Northern Sky, he writes about his experiences as a First Nation Cree person. In April he wrote this column, Shape Up Or Ship O…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- In case anybody held out hope that the Harper Cons might follow up on their residential school apology with some concrete action to change First Nations relations for the better, here’s the predictable result: a…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Henry Farrell points out why supposedly progressive ideas which don’t do anything to counter corporate power are doomed to failure:Neo-liberals tend to favor a combination of market mechanisms and technocratic …
Continue readingArt Threat: The beauty and agony of home – A conversation with God’s Lake Narrows artist Kevin Lee Burton
Kevin Lee Burton talks about his new interactive web project, the politics of storytelling, community and belonging.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week.- I’ll join the seemingly long list of commentators who wouldn’t ever have expected to cite David Brooks, but can’t avoid it based on his latest column:Eldar Shafir of Princeton and Sendhil Mullainathan of Harvard have…
Continue reading350 or bust: Business As Usual Is Over: Value Change Required For Survival
Today’s blog posting was initially posted on 350orbust on June 30, 2010: Chief Oren Lyons said, when speaking about Climate Change at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the UN Headquarters in 2007: We’re talking abou…
Continue reading350 or bust: Alberta Tar Sands Destruction: Haven’t We Killed Enough Indigenous People On This Continent?
“With everything in my heart I said I don’t want the death of the Lubicon and Chippewayan Cree on my hands. Haven’t we killed enough people on this continent already?” This was the question posed to a Republican Congress Person …
Continue readingFar and Wide: Pound The Table
I’m not sure why we never really seem to have a national conversation about First Nations, whether it’s because of collective shame, indifference or elements of racism, but the relative silence equates to passive acceptance. Last week Sheila Fraser aga…
Continue readingHarper Valley: The Vancouver Canucks, Smudging, Obnoxious Scalper and Cops…
My friend did a smudge around Roger’s Arena for the 7th game of the Canucks vs. the Blackhawks. The Nucks won. Then she did it again for the 5th game against the Predators, but an obnoxious, loud-mouth big baby scalper whined to her that the smudge smelled like shit. She explained it was a First […]
Politics, Re-Spun: A Snapshot of the Vulnerable Underclass of Foreign Workers in Canada
There are lots of ways to look at Canada’s checkered history with immigration. Europeans welcome, French to a lesser degree after they lost a war or something, Chinese railroad workers, the Komagata Maru, internment of Japanese-Canadians, residential schools and a variety of abuses of the First Nations who “we” tend to treat as lesser people, […]
Continue readingA lesson for those who think it’s possible to work with the Conservatives on anything
Winnipeg Free Press: First Nations’ water plight needs action: chiefsI’ve long maintained the Conservative government has no interest in working with First Nations. The stories coming out of Manitoba, from the Island Lakes reservations, provides anothe…
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