An Election About Democracy
So there are rumblings that a spring election wouldn’t end up being about corporate tax cuts and fighter jets after all. Marlene Jenning’s has suggested a non-confidence vote might be…
March 2011
An Election About Democracy
So there are rumblings that a spring election wouldn't end up being about corporate tax cuts and fighter jets after all. Marlene Jenning's has suggested a non-confidence vote might be…
An Election About Democracy
So there are rumblings that a spring election wouldn’t end up being about corporate tax cuts and fighter jets after all. Marlene Jenning’s has suggested a non-confidence vote might be…
Coalition to Protest Against Mayor’s Call for TCHC Tenant Directors To Step Down
Sunday, March 6, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Coalition to Protest Against Mayor's Call for TCHC Tenant Directors To Step Down The Coalition to Protect Toronto Community Housing Corp. (TCHC) will…
Provincial nomination progress, PC edition
Click the link for full sized version: http://i53.tinypic.com/2r4h2tk.png The most colour-complex map, for start. The PC's have nominated almost all of their caucus, with only Steve Clark of Leeds-Grenville, Jerry…
Progress and Learning
I commented, here: The best learning I've ever done has been on my own, working through a hard problem, by reading and then writing, either text, or software, or derivations.…
When a Voice is Silenced
When an important voice in this country was silenced this week, I confess I was stunned.Jim Travers looked to places that others didn't and seemed to have a wide-angle lens…
Aristide’s Return: 70 year-old Presidential Candidate, Mirlande Manigat Gets it Wrong
illutration_wad.jpg By Wadner Pierre On the left, Aristide's supporters asking for his return and the annulment of the last Nov. 28 lections. On the right Presidential candidate Mirlande Man...
When will the Next Federal Election happen in Canada?
I put out a survey asking for people's opinion on when we will have the next Federal election in Canada. The initial results as of now are shown in the…
Molly’sBlog 2011-03-06 15:54:00
AMERICAN LABOUR CALIFORNIA: WHAT IS A LIFE WORTH ?:The following appeal is from the American United Farm Workers, and it's about the excessively lenient sentence for the contractor responsible for…
Obscenity and Sadism Galore : CIA’s formula to "learned helplessness"
In a 19-page document, entitled “Background Paper on CIA’s Combined Use of Interrogation Techniques” and dated Dec. 30, 2004, the CIA describes the process they refer to as providing an…
Obscenity and Sadism Galore : CIA’s formula to "learned helplessness"
In a 19-page document, entitled “Background Paper on CIA’s Combined Use of Interrogation Techniques” and dated Dec. 30, 2004, the CIA describes the process they refer to as providing an…
Obscenity and Sadism Galore : CIA’s formula to "learned helplessness"
In a 19-page document, entitled “Background Paper on CIA’s Combined Use of Interrogation Techniques” and dated Dec. 30, 2004, the CIA describes the process they refer to as providing an…
“Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.”
These postcards were sent by the Young Women Leaders Program, a mentoring program sponsored by the UCF Women’s Studies Program. YWLP originated at the University of Virginia, and UCF launched…
March 5 2009
That is the date of the first post here at Democracy Under Fire which means that I have now been posing articles and opinions about our Democracy weekly for two…
I want to pogne
The American hegemony on the pop music scene is indisputable. And many talent hunters from the United States are exploring other regions of the globe in search for new ideas…
The Legitimate Range of Epistemology
This is a reply to a post by kirbycairo which is a reply to my post which explains where all this came from. I agree that there are two justifications…
Prime Minister takes ownership of Canadian government
The "Government of Canada" is no more. Public servants from four different departments have confirmed to The Canadian Press that they received a directive that the words "Government of Canada"…
PMO: The Govt of Canada now renamed ‘Harper Government’
Canada's modest, self-effacing autocratic Prime Minister has demanded that the country's civil service must cease to use "the government of Canada" in official publications. From now on, the tax-funded communiques…
A Familiar Pose (once Again)
Chicago 5 Toronto 3