2011
La ligne dure
There is a difference between a principle and a regulation, observes the insightful visual artist Jennifer Macklem in the Ottawa Citizen today. In fact one might well argue, based upon…
3929…We Don’t Need More Seats In Parliament
Tim Uppal, federal minister of state for democratic reform, told Will Chabun that we need more seats in the House of Commons and that "...the next step in this process…
Exposing the Real Risk of FrackGas
Actor Mark Ruffalo on Olbermann explains why frackgas is so insanely dangerous. "We don't have another 40 years."
Noticed
My gosh but today's Telegram editorial today has a few very, very familiar elements to it.
Shades of Green: ISA – A Ticking Time Bomb
The Infectious Salmon Anemia virus (ISAv) is a ticking time bomb that could explode under BC's salmon farming industry and their open net-pens. If this industry has imported such a…
Do No Pass Go! No Soup for You!
The thing about Hugh McFadyen that sets off people’s bullshit detectors is his penchant for resorting to stunts that are cheap, cheesy, and perhaps worthy of a Junior running for…
Hacking for the Environment – Tar Sands in the Crosshairs
The international hacking group Anonymous has launched Operation Green Rights. Their first target was Monsanto, a company the group called "corrupt, unethical and downright evil." Anonymous claims to have given…
Signs of decay
I'm not sure whether the Libs think their base will be more fired up by their clinging to the trappings of past power to prevent newly-elected MPs from doing their…
Exxon in Hot Water over Montana Pipeline
Exxon has been using a pipeline to transport Athabasca bitumen without notifying state officials who thought the line was only carrying conventional or "sweet" crude. The presence of bitumen was…
Ratko Mladic of Bosnia & Marcus Bachmann
Marcus Bachmann is the husband of Michele Bachmann who is one of the presidential candidates for 2012.Are Ratko Mladic of Bosnia and Marcus Bachmann related in any way? There is…
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Courtesy of Roger Ebert, a gem from the past. The BBC’s original adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel. Enjoy!
Quotable: Noam Chomsky on student activism and anarchism
“Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time. Then anarchists work at unmasking and mastering…
Seriously, Did He Really Say That?
Why does the new US Defense Secretary talk just like Donald Rumsfeld?DefSec Leon Panneta has been making the rounds in Baghdad, begging the Maliki government to ask American troops to…
Before Wisconsin there was Puerto Rico
Governor Scott Walker's actions in Wisconsin brought the NeoLiberal agenda into the mainstream conscientiousness. Many were surprised by the viciousness with which Walker implemented his agenda yet we shouldn't have…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted material for your weekend reading.- Paul Wells puts his observations about Stephen Harper's inexplicable warnings about Canada's eventual disappearance into column form. But I have to wonder whether Harper…
Three Strikes and You’re Out, and By Out, I Mean Dead
This story was plastered above the fold in yesterday’s print edition of the Toronto Star: Gleb Alfyorov thought he was going to a hospital for help. So did the judge…
In which Angry McPointy passes the buck
Early in June it was reported that Abousfian Abdelrazik's application for child-assistance benefits had been denied by the Quebec government because his name still appears on the UN's 1267 terror…
Hudak’s anti-choice position
Hudak believes government’s role is to be pro-life. Screw the law, I guess.