Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Murray Dobbin comments on the role that the Occupy protest movement can play in countering corporate power that's faced far too little opposition for…
October 2011
Just wondering
Glen McGregor at the Ottawa Citizen put an article up yesterday to report on spending by unions on federal election advertising. Using "newly-released financial reports" which are filed with Elections…
“Canada’s The Best Country In The World”
It’s Thanksgiving Monday here in Canada. Me and mine have much to be thankful for today, having narrowly avoided a serious health crisis among one of our own. So this…
A Conversation on Innovation
This is a summary of the 'expert discussion' at the conclusion of Day One of the International Monitoring Organization conference. Each paragraph denotes a different speaker, the speakers are not…
Peter Kent makes lemons out of lemonade
"Designed to Fail". That should be the motto of Peter Kent and the Conservatives' 'environmental mismanagement'.NDP Environment Critic Megan Leslie (Halifax, N.S.) accused the government of creating a climate change…
Libertarians for an Inheritance Tax
I rarely give thanks for Neil Reynolds, but today’s column is a must-read. The point is that taxing large inheritances should appeal not only to those of us concerned about…
Southwest Airlines follies: "It’s a go!"
Southwest Airlines is the product of a true southern sensibility. Meaning there is little sense - or heart - in anything it does. It represents all that is ugly about…
CBC in the news
FRIENDS says although Heritage Minister James Moore has assured Canadians the CBC is safe, "There's more than one James Moore. He's a hydra-headed creature."
Harper’s War on Universal Human Rights Continues
It's Air Canada again. This time it's the 6,800 flight attendants who have voted down an offer from the airline and will be in a legal strike position on Thursday.It…
I do not mourn for Steve Jobs
Back in early August, I recall reading a comparison between the NDP and Apple. At the time both leaders were still alive, but had each taken a leave of absence…
Shutting down the blog
After six years, many elections, and two leadership contests, I have decided the time has come for this website to die. It has been fun, but I have lost interest.…
Happy Thanksgiving
Poor turkey.
Something’s Happening Here
And what it is is increasingly clear. The people who were responsible for the financial crisis of 2008 -- and the growing economic inequality of the last thirty years --…
Where Richard Warman’s Money Goes
Richard Warman (left) presents a donation of $1,000 to Wayne Nightingale (centre), head of the Military Family Resource Centre. The money is the first instalment of a $5,000 pledge that…
Will Conservatives make liberal cuts to the CBC? by Randy Boswell
Columnist says the CBC, embroiled in both a legal fight and a parliamentary probe over its record on responding to access-to-information requests, is now also bracing for deep funding cuts.
Any time you go into a fight you’re going to come out with scars
John Carlos (American Olympian)
Tim Harper on the One-Year Anniversary of U.S. Steel’s Hamilton Lock-out
We are approaching the one-year anniversary of U.S. Steel's lockout of the workers from its Hamilton plant; the lockout would seem to be in contravention of the guarantees that the…
right-wing editor admits to playing provocateur, instigating violence at protest
We all know that agent provocateurs are a reality, but whenever we are offered hard evidence, we should spread it far and wide. A right-wing "journalist" has admitted to infiltrating…