People should read âpihtawikosisân’s splendid follow-up piece, responding to the National Post’s reprinting of her original article without permission and misattributing it as well. She’s now been outed, with far…
Yep, Green Party MP Elizabeth May is an official delegate for Papua New Guinea. It’s another bizarre moment on the world stage brought to you by the Harper government. It…
…HOOP SNAKES HAVE INFESTED OTTAWA! I knew that this day may come… but I did not imagine that it would be so soon… perhaps post-apocalypse… but not now! Seen from…
Clearly, one of last week’s layoffs was their copy editor. Story.
The other day I saw a video of Dennis Kucinich, an American Congressman, reviewing a scandal which I thought was years old. It was actually breaking news with important new…
The city of Saint Petersburg in Russia has introduced a bill that would impose a $100 fine for anyone found promoting “homosexual propaganda.” The fine is increased up to $1,600…
The provincial government waited until late Friday afternoon to issue a bulletin that Emera had registered the Nova Scotia interconnection with the environment department for review. That’s weird because Friday…
And that was the first NDP leadership debate – nine people up on stage, basically agreeing with one another the whole time, delivering platitudes about how great things like national…
Pepper Spray Cop infiltrates Georges Seurat’s Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Harry Shearer — yes, that Harry Shearer of Simpsons and Spinal Tap fame — has…
The Durban Climate Conference hasn’t even begun yet and already Canada is getting flack for it’s poor reputation on the environment. What do you expect though from an environment minister…
Remember that text you sent? That email you typed up? Who called you? Or what you searched on your smartphone exactly 3 months, 2 minutes, and 39 seconds ago? Chances…
It is appropriate to ask if political writers can report objectively after they become paid participants in the public forum, earning appearance fees and other remuneration from businesses with interests…
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford squares off against Toronto Star Board Chairman John Honderich in a cage fight. Actually, Hogtown politicians and media personalities may not be exactly as illustrated, but…
This is one of those stories you will never read in The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business. The mainstream media and anyone associated with the business community refer to…
Moderated by Greg Albo, featuring: Leo Panitch is a political economist and theorist based at York University, Toronto, and is co-editor of Socialist Register. His latest book (with co-author Sam…
Last week, “underdog” NDP leadership candidate Nathan Cullen released a policy paper on “Improving our democracy.” But looking at it, one should be terrified by what Cullen is proposing because…
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came…
Out of nine. However, we can be proud that a Canadian party could field nine candidates of this calibre, any one of whom would knock spots of the whole Republican…
It’s a crime. While Stephen Harper and his government are building prions to put pot smokers in jail, they are ignoring the plight of many young people in this country.…
