Update on Falling Real Wages
I’ve blogged on this before, and continue to be surprised by the lack of attention paid to the significant ongoing decline of real wages. Falling wages are a key indicator…
November 2011
Mona Eltahawy’s harrowing account of assault and capture by Egyptian police
Last night Mona Eltahawy tweeted ( @monaeltahawy) an incredible account of her capture and subsequent sexual assault and much more. Here she expands in a telephone interview with CNN. A…
Expert evidence in soft sciences in a criminal context
R. v. Bodenstein, 2011 ONCA 737 is a useful example of the Court of Appeal applying the traditional test for expert evidence in the context of soft sciences and criminal…
Organic Farming Better Than Factory Farming
There are still a lot of people who think that congenital factory farming is the most efficient way to produce crops, well those people get proven wrong – a lot!…
A whale of a headline: "A tale of two democracies: Harper steamrolls, Obama grinds gears"
Did you get that? This headline from the Globe & Mail is rife with innuendo. You don’t need to read the article to know what’s going on here. In this…
Rafe Mair’s 80 birthday roast TONIGHT!
Thursday November 24 from 6:30-9 PM at the Wise Hall (1882 Adanac St., Vancouver), join us as a fantastic list of speakers from the different areas of Rafe Mair’s career…
Screwing the pooch
C-10, the omnibus crime bill now being bulldozed through the House of Commons, offers valuable insight into the dim recesses of the Conservative psyche. It’s heavy on penalties, of course,…
alberta faces incomplete voters list. british columbia’s elections officer proposes meaningful changes.
This blogger never misses a vote. Edmonton-Riverview MLA Kevin Taft is continuing his court battle over the administration of Alberta’s 2008 provincial election by launching a charter challenge. As reported…
Mona Eltahawy: assaulted, but unbowed
Egyptian journalist, feminist and blogger (and now US dual citizen) Mona Eltahawy tweeted the above picture at about 9 am today. She was back in Cairo to report on the…
Back to the Future to Change the Course of History
The Canadian Manifesto: How the American Neoconservatives Stole My Country I was sent an article posted on Aljazeera recently: The deep roots of conservative radicalism, by Corey Robin. Robin is…
Turkeys and Chickens and Pork Roast: the Best Ever
Since it’s Thanksgiving south of the border, and other holidays are coming up, here’s a recipe that I found a couple of years ago on Global Gourmet and adapted a…
Occupy Economics – YouTube
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On base support
The leadership tabs are piling up on my end, and I’ll assemble a number of them into a post shortly. But one recent development looks to call for a post…
Who Tricked Who?
Ezra Klein wonders how smart Republicans were when they talked Barack Obama into automatic spending cuts once the supercommittee failed: Imagine if the Democrats offered Republicans a deficit deal that…
Party of Principle
While Peter C. Newman has been getting headlines with his diagnosis that the Liberal Party is dead, Andrew Coyne offers his recipe for resurrection here. While I generally agree with…
Star Readers and Harper Government’s Injustice to Sayed Shah Sharifi’s
While I rarely excerpt long passages from other sources fro my blog, I am making an exception today to print the reactions of Toronto Star readers to the cruel abandonment…
Best Foot Forward?
When the dust settles, you’ll get behind whomever, because in the grand scheme the selection of President for the Liberal party isn’t a make or break factor. That said, the…
New column day
Here, on how the Cons are taking away the real choice currently enjoyed by Western grain producers thanks to the Canadians Wheat Board. The data on grain production within the…
Poet For the Planet, Drew Dellinger, At Occupy Oakland
“It’s time to rock the nation, rock this occupation! Our communities need us. We are all leaders. How could we ask for anything less than the future?“ A powerful video…