Rob Ford = Fundamentally Undemocratic
Toronto mayor feuds with Canada’s biggest daily Conter likened Ford’s war against the media to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s tight limits on media access during the recent election race, during…
December 2011
Decoding Dunderdale
James McLeod has a great piece in the Telegram today. It comes complete with a great headline derived from a quote the Premier provides, all of which, in its own…
Molly’sBlog 2011-12-03 11:59:00
LOCAL EVENTS WINNIPEG: FORUM ON ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND BUSINESS:****************************** –WhenThursday, December 8, 2011Time5:00pm until 8:00pmWhereJames W. Burns Executive Education Centre , 177 Lombard Ave (2nd floor), Winnipeg, ManitobaDescriptionhttp://myuminfo.umanitoba.ca/index.asp?sec=712&too=200&eve=8&dat=12%2F8%2F2011&epa=52596Reception:Refreshments and hors…
It’s Jason Cherniak that Should Resign…
…Along with the rest of the LPCOntario Management Committee of the Executive. Jason is arguing for the immediate resignation of National Executive Policy Chair Joan Bourassa over on Facebook. I”m…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Greg Weston nicely chronicles Peter MacKay’s flat-out lies about how he came to take a $30,000 helicopter ride. And while Weston despairs about…
Journalism and the Toronto G20
The final major piece of work that I have to do for school before the break is a paper looking at some of the ways that the G20 summit in…
Herman Cain: Should I stay? Or should I quit?
That is the question? Poor Herman! Pleasure carries pain.
New Franke James Video: Give Harper the Call
0_FrankeOnTheHill_2_web.jpg Even as the Harper government works overtime to represent the oil industry (and humiliate Canadians) at climate talks in Durban, South Africa, the tireless and ridiculously optimistic Franke James…
Sixth Estate Announces Inaugural Weekly Flack Award for Worst Government Press Release
Government press releases have probably never been, shall we say, the go-to source for reasoned and well-informed commentary on the issues of the today. They are, rather, propaganda, pure and…
Rift Between the Lemire Family and Fromm over Money?
Perhaps we’re reading a bit much into this. Fromm and Lemire at the “George Orwell”Awards the year Mark and ConnieFournier won. Perhaps not. Paul Fromm and Marc Lemire have a…
Jewish Teen Atttacked in Winnipeg
Attack on Jewish teen ‘shocking’ Hair burned with lighter by fellow student By: Gabrielle Giroday and Mike McIntyre Posted: 12/3/2011 8:58 AM A POLICE probe is underway into an incident…
Harper’s "Office for Relgious Freedom": Another Newspeak front?
Dubya got into a lot of hot water in many circles with his so-called “faith based initiative” (which President Obama has actually continued and broadened to include people of faith…
More Attawapiskat facts
…to counter Conservative spin and popular ignorance. Some useful Saturday reading. Briefly, successive governments put the Attawapiskat people where they are, invented rules, regulations and prohibitions to keep them there,…
Video: Thousands march in Sydney after ALP votes to support marriage equality
While the marriage equality movement is still in its early stages in Australia, it certainly took a big step forward with the ruling Australian Labor Party (ALP) decision Saturday to…
"Those communities really shouldn’t exist"
So reads the headline on a two-page story in the Post which talks about 'voluntary relocation' for remote First Nations and Inuit communities. A comment noted in bold in the…
The Anti-Trudeau
Stephen Harper despised Pierre Trudeau. He was nine years old when Trudeau became prime minister, and twenty-five when Trudeau retired. Watching Harper pontificate and react, one gets the impression that…
Conservative war on the CBC: a succinct response
A CBC veteran explains for the hard of thinking why the CBC is not like other broadcasters, and how it is being hung out to dry by its competitor Quebecor…
A Half a Century Later and We are Losing Half a Century
The Canadian Manifesto: How the American Neoconservatives Stole My Country In researching the conservative movement on both sides of the border, one thing becomes clear. In the U.S. they don’t…
Me, Uncle Ben’s, And Fox News North: Will Uncle Ben’s Pull Its Advertising?
As a few people have noted elsewhere, Sun TV has been running gay-bashing/transphobic ads from McVety’s gang at the Institute for Canadian Values, and this has spawned a campaign on…
Publications!
Just a quick post today to announce two new publications that I’m excited about. The first is my new edited collection, Contemporary Quebec: Selected Readings and Commentaries, which I co-edited…