The Rape Of Greece
When even Fox News thinks something is unjust, you know it is a fucking catastrophe. This is going to end badly for the everyone, but especially for the Greek people.…
When even Fox News thinks something is unjust, you know it is a fucking catastrophe. This is going to end badly for the everyone, but especially for the Greek people.…
News item, The Guardian, November 3, 2011: "Bill Gates will tell the G20 group of developed and developing countries on Thursday that they could raise an extra $48bn (£30bn) a…
On Friday, November 18th, OpenMedia.ca's Executive Director Steve Anderson will be in Toronto with NDP MPs Andrew Cash and Charlie Angus to talk about the Conservative government's proposed onli...
Today is National Sandwich Day! So get out there and get yourself a Montréal smoked meat on rye! A Ham and Swiss! Salmon salad! Tomato and mayo! PB and J!…
Re Jennifer Hart, 2011 NLCA 64 has some useful language about adjournments to obtain new counsel: A litigant is not entitled to continuous postponements to allow for the substitution of…
Angela Hall makes the fatal mistake of presuming that right-wing spin has anything at all to do with reality:Returning to the city where he made a recent campaign promise to…
Go, sit upon the lofty hill, And turn your eyes around, Where waving woods and waters wild Do hymn an autumn sound. The summer sun is faint on them --…
As human beings, there is really no way that we can dispute our deeply-flawed natures. Overlooking the terrible depths to which we can sink, the unspeakable cruelties each of us…
PERSONALWHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT PART 3As I've mentioned before, both here and on my Facebook page, the very fact that the movement has refused to set up…
So about ten percent of Mankiw’s students figured out that Mankiw is a neoliberal. Harvard students should have known that by grade six. Better late then never I suppose. Filed…
Live chat: Should we worry about Europe's financial crisis
STOP ONLINE SPYING DOES STEPHEN HARPER THINK ITS 1984? How far is the Conservative government planning on going with its "Lawful Access" online snooping bill? Think police should have access…
One of the many advantages of modern technology is the ability for ordinary people to be heard. Each one of us, as Liberals, has the opportunity to be heard not…
The high-profile sponsorship of a BC cancer research charity event by the world's biggest oil pipeline builder raises serious questions about the ethics of fundraising - and threatens to backfire…
We missed this when it was reported on October 17, but a teenager who was charged with aggravated assault in connection with the stabbing death of 60-year old John Ferreira…
Reminds me a bit of Shrek, actually....
Early in the occupation of Wall Street, David Graeber characterized it as a re-awakening of the radical imagination. One way to conceptualize the imaginative dimension of the Occupy Together movement…
After an initial response that was far warmer to the plan of Nathan Cullen to take proactive steps to throw the Harper Tories out of power in 2015, Brian Topp…
Yes, yes. Everyone knows that Hallowe’en happens in October and that Mardi Gras – Fat Tuesday – is in the spring time, before lent which is before Easter. That doesn’t…
Should we eliminate poverty? It’s a ridiculous question made serious by people who have lost sight of their dreams in a wasteland of practicality and concession; They’re practical, to the…