CN Cycle for CHEO 2012: Forgetting and Remembering the Hills
I described last years CN Cycle for CHEO as the best yet but I’m not sure how to describe this years. It started out cool and I dressed for it…
May 2012
Why people should be able to marry the same gender
I know there is a lot of articles out there arguing for and against same-sex marriage. However, I wanted to give my two cents as to why I think people…
5 years in jail for masked instigators of unrest
Stephen Harper’s government supports Bill C-309, a private members bill before the House of Commons. It will enable individuals to be jailed five years for wearing a mask or other…
ConCalls: Computer Science
Having a background in computers helps someone understand the RoboCon details much faster. The calls were made in large part through computer technology. When the Elections Act was created, it…
Rob Ford Lets David Menzies Slime George Smitherman For Being Gay
The recording is here; words are about 20 minutes in. Totally disgusting and maybe actionable. Sun TV must be so proud. And I guess so must we all in T.O.…
4597…Thomas Mulcair’s Divisive Strategies
The new leader of the NDP was on CBC Radio’s The House trying to play Alberta against the east. More to the point he was playing a province where the…
Legislation would prohibit masks during riots: it’s already a crime. Doesn’t anyone read the Criminal Code?
Sometimes you have to wonder if MP's read the Criminal Code. My sense is they don't. And no one else does either. It is already against the law to wear…
Civil Disobedience Warranted for Pipelines, Tankers, Fish Farms, Private River Power
Civil Disobedience has had successes in the past in BC but too often there have been one or two who have refused to obey the law and once they have…
Mining in the NWT: Who Gets What?
In a recent blog post at Northern Public Affairs, Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox looks at the issue of ‘who gets what?’ when a mine is developed in the Northwest Territories (NWT). Here…
How To Terrify A Conservative
Some of my family from out West are visiting so I thought I’d take them on a tour of our neighbourhood. Walking along we passed the constituency office for my…
2013 BC Libs & 2015 Federal Tories will be booted out
The People are not stupid. They know when they are being taken for granted. They know when they are being lied to. They know when they are being discriminated against.…
4595…Joan Rivers Was Right
So right. You wash your dishes and b o o m six months later you gotta wash them all over again. What a way to spend a Sunday. Next Sunday…
Parliament in Review – April 2, 2012
Monday, April 2 saw the second day of Peter Julian’s extended budget speech. And perhaps the point most worth noting is how many Canadians outside of Parliament took the opportunity…
marxism 2011 program notes: keynes vs. marx: can capitalism be reformed?
These are my notes from the 2011 Marxism conference in Toronto. The series starts here. * * * * I was especially interested in this talk, as for much of…
François Hollande defeats Nicolas Sarkozy to become French president
http://www.thestar.com/mobile/NEWS/article/1173954 PARIS—François Hollande swept to victory on Sunday, becoming the first socialist to become president of France since François Mitterrand left office in 1995. Hollande campaigned on a kinder,…
Review: Imagined Communities
A quirky book that takes as one of its starting points the historically lousy job that the liberal and marxist traditions had done of theorizing nationalism, Imagined Communities became a…
marxism 2011 program notes: workers rising: from wisconsin to ontario
These are my notes from the 2011 Marxism conference in Toronto. The series starts here. * * * * Workers rising: From Wisconsin to OntarioPanel Discussion, May 28, 2011 Allen…
On the roof
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