True American Exceptionalism.
SonnyWannaTryTheBiggestTop OfThemAllVille The real America, where Americans really live, is a big, wide, loud, mean-streeted, good-hearted, sloppy drums kind of a place where things can go really, really well or,…
March 2012
I’ll just leave this right here
Apparently this is the poster for a cancer-research benefit match. And yes, that is Justin “Just Watch Me” Trudeau in the upper right-hand corner! I could make all kinds of…
White racism alive and well in USA
Overt racism that disgusted so many of us in the fifties and sixties is not tolerated in most circles today. An exception though involves the American world of right wing…
NDP Leadership Convention Liveblog
Welcome to the Politics, Re-Spun NDP Leadership Convention Liveblog. Two of our embedded Politics, Re-Spun crew in the convention, Anna and Laura are in Twitter as well as on the…
Dishon. Christian Paradis Guilty of Lying, Patronage, and Cronyism
Revenge is such sweet sorrow. One week ago, the Dishon. Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry in the Harper regime, commenced court proceedings intended to silence and punish critics of a…
This Is What My Kid’s Radicalization Looks Like.
WillQuebecHelpSaveUsToo? ROCVille From the notoriously biased CBC: Tens of thousands of Quebec students descended on downtown Montreal Thursday afternoon for the latest in a series of escalating protests against proposed…
Peopel Need To Understand That Harper Is Not Going To Be Prime Minister Forever ….
… and the Liberals aren’t coming back just yet. My vote for Leader of Canada’s New Democrats is going to be made very carefully this weekend. National Post: -Signs Show…
Obert Madondo’s Indefinited Bill C-10 Hunger Strike: Day 9 Update
This journal entry covers days 8 and 9 (March 21 and 22) my indefinite hunger strike against Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives’ draconian Safe Streets and Communities Act…
Yay Québec students – continuons le combat
I went to university in Québec in the mid to late 1980s. At the time university tuition fees were frozen at around $570 per year for undergraduate arts. How wierd…
The speculation about speculators speculating about oil price
It’s becoming a recurring theme to blame the high oil price on “speculators”. This of course implies some sort of clear distinction between someone legitimately purchasing oil contracts or someone…
NDP Members: You can guarantee that an NDP MP will be our next prime minister IF …
… IF you make your decision to listen to the massive outpouring of views by NDP supporters and Liberal Party supporters, the bulk of whom favour electoral cooperation and post-election…
Sorry, Michael: There will be Group Think at the NDP leadership convention
Michael Den Tandt of Postmedia News has been wrestling with the challenges posed by the unique NDP convention method. It is the first time in Canadian history that a leadership…
Again…
… of COURSE he won’t step down. Are we not used to how low these criminals can fall? No pride. No honour. For the CPC, pride and honour are signs…
Fox News North Dumped By Parliamentary Cable TV System
3 Days Ago! And nobody has even noticed! Don’t know how many can get to Mark Bourrie’s Facebook page. But you should try and friend the guy. He’s a media…
Turn your backs on #TeamFord | #TOpoli
The last couple of days at Toronto Council have been pretty, um, dramatic. Those of you following the #TOpoli action on the Tweetr know this already, of course. One wants…
Ten thousand Canadians on electoral cooperation
The online activist group Leadnow.ca surveyed its members and found this result: This could be the start of something big. Last Thursday, we sent a message to the whole Leadnow…
Leadership 2012 – Policy Highlights
With the NDP’s leadership convention set to start tomorrow (and assorted hospitality suites already starting up tonight), I won’t be able to finish off my initial plan to put together…
Will Nathan Cullen have to thank these 2 if he becomes leader on Saturday?
We’ve heard little about the results of the push by these two significant groups, but perhaps by Sunday morning we will all be nodding our heads and saying: Of course!…
Thank God for Québec Students
Maybe Ontario students will take a hint and keep an eye on our own tuition fees, which are highest in Canada (Québec’s are the lowest, so I’m not that sympathetic,…
Toothless media accommodates political fraud
In 2006, Rafe Mair wrote News Media, Defanged for The Tyee. It included the headline: “Politicians, not too long ago, feared the press.” Of course misreants particularly feared Rafe Mair…