One year
I missed posting on the one-year anniversary but Steve didn’t: This majority is Harper in his full glory. The bully with no regard for democracy, the authoritarian right wing ideologue…
May 2012
The Quebec Students and the Great Victory
They marched for three months. In the cold of February and the chill of the Maple Spring. Many of them were roughed up, or arrested for no good reason. For…
Sarko No Mo
Widespread European unrest is reaching polling stations in several countries today. Most notable is France where president Nicholas Sarkozy has conceded defeat to new president Francois Hollande, the first socialist…
We are all Guy Fawkes now
Oh, those darn “civil libertarians” are at it again! But civil libertarians are concerned that the legislation will give police the power to break up peaceful protests, which are frequently…
Francois Hollande Wins French Presidential election
Bye-bye Sarkozy. Good for France. Another of Bush’s poodle is gone. Now it is Harper’s turn to take a hike. CBC news.
Diageo: Liquor giant backs away from science-dissembling Heartland Institute
Diageo brands.jpg The London-based liquor giant Diageo has joined the companies that are criticizing or cutting off the Heartland Institute in protest over its campaigns to confuse people about climate…
Getting more out of job creators
Probably the best and most successful way to get more out of the job creators, is to convince them that they can make more money.
4594…Sorta May be Perhaps Quebec Crisis Over
They kinda mighta reached a deal.Sort of. “With Mr. Charest we never know what to expect,” Parti Québécois leader Pauline Marois said. “What I deplore is that he waited 82…
Harper’s Reckless Indifference to Inevitable Catastrophe
“But Skipper, the oil’s 600-feet down” It would probably take something of a mass insurrection to stop Stephen Harper’s plans to transport toxic Alberta sludge through British Columbia’s coastal waters.…
A Healthy Society – Chapter 6 Discussion
Chapter 6 of Ryan Meili’s A Healthy Society addresses education. But in addition to discussing familiar themes about funding and access to existing educational systems, Meili also makes some important…
Dear Quebec students,
As Martine Desjardins, president of the Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec (FEUQ), said after the 22 hour negotiating marathon between Quebec student federations (which at last included La CLASSE) and…
May 6: Sunday morning…..
…so what the hell (figuratively speaking), let’s talk about morality. No, I am not going to start quoting from The Bible. The trouble with people who glue their noses to…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – There’s still plenty more emerging on the Robocon election fraud scandal. The reporting combinations of McGregor/Maher and Chase/Leblanc/Mills have both discussed Elections Canada’s…
Austerity and Innovation – Reinventing Society
Over the last week, I have been busy – let me bring you up to date. Last Wednesday, May 2, I tuned in to a podcast of the MARS lecture…
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Search string of the day: why should the planet earth be conserved ? Because it’s the only planet we’ve got! If we use it up, we don’t have a replacement…
Conrad Black has many friends in Canada
A journalist by the name of Peter Worthington opines that “Black is as Canadian as maple syrup”. Worthington says Black’s renunciation of Canadian citizenship was because of Jean Chretien. Mr.…
Mulcair’s Shrewd Gambit
It is quite fascinating to digest the narrative Mulcair has chosen in the early days of his leadership. An economic argument, Mulcair can’t seem to stop talking about “dutch disease”,…
[May 14 in Toronto] From Protest to Resistance: West Germany’s Red Army Faction in the 1970s and 1980s
The Red Army Faction was one of the best known, and most vilified, urban guerilla organizations of the Cold War period. Emerging from West Germany’s radical student movement in the…
Such Exquiste Timing
I doubt that Stephen Harper reads anything that Robert Reich writes. But, as a trained economist, the prime minister might take a look at Reich’s most recent blogpost. Reich writes…
New Progressive Blogger affiliate:
Please welcome Bionic Liberal to Progressive Bloggers.