"The military is to serve the Canadian public, not the Minister."
If there is one IMPORTANT story that is largely being ignored- as we sift through the robocall scandal and all its tentacles- it is the revelation that Peter MacKay employed…
March 2012
Video: You Can Play Project for gay athletes
You Can Play is a milestone project dedicated to ensuring equality, respect, and safety for all athletes, regardless of sexual orientation. The campaign works to challenge the culture of locker…
Why like social media? – Lawyers Weekly
I am quoted in this article on the legal profession’s utilization of social media: Why like social media? – Lawyers Weekly – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Flavour of the Moment
I love this song: 32 Flavours. Filed under: Personal Tagged: Ani DiFranco
A small bit of advice for Stephen Harper
If you’re going to send a spokesperson out to the media and talkshows to defend/obfuscate against robocalls and whether or not your party engaged in voter suppression, I’d suggest Dean…
QP: Jim Flaherty: Political Superweapon
To say that today’s Question Period was anything other than bizarre would perhaps be an exercise in understatement. There were moments where it was so surreal that I felt like…
Robocon: The Wisdom of the People
Harper’s new Tories are running for cover while throwing everything they can think of up as explanations for the voter suppression complaints, hoping to distract Canadians from the ever-increasing evidence…
Deep Green Resistance
I first heard about Deep Green Resistance in the middle of a grassroots fight to stop a huge vacationhome subdivision at a wilderness park on Vancouver Island. Back then, it…
Conservatives on the defensive: squirrels and bright shiny objects
A Twitterer suggested last evening that this would be a week of Conservative diversions meant to deflect public attention from its role in the deepening Roboscam scandal: Watch for #CPC…
CREA projects average house prices to dip
The Canadian Real Estate Association is predicting that the national average for house prices will drop in 2012, but not by much. I wouldn’t put too much stock in such…
Ideas to Work With
David Harvey addressed a crowd in the heart of London’s financial district early in November 2011. “We need to mobilize in such a way that we can genuinely threaten major…
John Ibbitson shames himself in the Conservative daily Globe & Mail
Itchy and Scratchy The Globe & Mail is a terrible newspaper. It was once highly regarded but has fallen into disrepute. Only if you are a Conservative or a right-wing…
Uneconomic Growth
The idea that economic growth can not continue indefinitely, or even for more than a few generations, is as old as economics itself. The classical economists — Smith, Ricardo and,…
Religions taking advantage of children
It’s an easy topic to write about and these three articles speak for themselves mostly, so I’m only going to give limited commentary on three pieces from the past couple…
Shaw-t Through The Heart…
At 12:30 this afternoon, Cindy Ady, the PC MLA for Calgary-Shaw, announced via Facebook and on Twitter that she would not be seeking re-election in this spring’s general election. The…
Are We Coming to the End of the Growth Era?
Industrialized economies have grown most years since the mid-19th century. Globally, economic output per person increased tenfold between 1900 and 2000. Richard Heinberg says that this long run of economic…
NDP Leadership Race: New member weighs options
Signed up for membership in the NDP a couple of weeks before the voting deadline for the party's leadership. Was my first time ever being a member of that party.…
NDP Leadership Race: New member weighs options
Signed up for membership in the NDP a couple of weeks before the voting deadline for the party’s leadership. Was my first time ever being a member of that party.…
NDP Leadership Race: New member weighs options
Signed up for membership in the NDP a couple of weeks before the voting deadline for the party's leadership. Was my first time ever being a member of that party.…
NDP Leadership Race: New member weighs options
Signed up for membership in the NDP a couple of weeks before the voting deadline for the party’s leadership. Was my first time ever being a member of that party.…