marxism 2012 a smashing success
We’ve just returned from the Marxism 2012 conference, a weekend of inspiration, education, and revolution. I plan to transcribe all the talks that either I or Allan attended, either from…
May 2012
Free Riders and Dire Needers
Breaking news: bad jobs exist. In a classic case of Conservatives boiling down an issue to a wide-sweeping preposterous claim, Jim Flaherty claimed that “there is no bad job”. Yikes…
Jeez.
Enough is enough, no? Tragic. So many children. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Join the Campaign to build ‘One Big Campaign’
Dear Friends, I won’t be writing a blog very often for a while. I have decided instead to focus my attention on encouraging hundreds of progressive groups and the top…
4683…He IS Spending More Time At The Buffet
Rob Ford, Toronto’s mayor, announced on his weekly radio show, I believe it is on CFRB, that he is chucking his very public diet. Dude was 330 when his challenge…
Molly’sBlog 2012-05-27 18:29:00
CANADIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT:THE VICTORIA ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR: Fall rolls around once more, and, as the leaves are turning colour the colourful Victoria Anarchist Bookfair will be blowing into town out there…
Guest Post: On Standards of Fairness
Dan Tan offers this assessment of the CP’s reporting on recent polls about Thomas Mulcair’s economic comments: Harris-Decima recently asked a group of Canadians what they thought about Thomas Mulcair’s…
Back on the air
As you can hear (automatically, if you don’t want to hear, just go to your right and hit the pause button) Radio Woodshed is back on the air after a…
A New World — A New Humanity
With this post I am going to flesh-out an idea that has been nagging at me since I first started reading about world crises and the people and organizations that…
A New World — A New Humanity
With this post I am going to flesh-out an idea that has been nagging at me since I first started reading about world crises and the people and organizations that…
A New World — A New Humanity
With this post I am going to flesh-out an idea that has been nagging at me since I first started reading about world crises and the people and organizations that…
A New World — A New Humanity
With this post I am going to flesh-out an idea that has been nagging at me since I first started reading about world crises and the people and organizations that…
But the boomers were ‘entitled to their entitlements’
Nice piece by John Moore in the National Post on just who is and is not whining about entitlement. Setting aside the fact that this intergenerational hectoring dates back to…
Ottawa citizen reports – Thomas Mulclair has a mortgage on his home
This is news? Postmedia Network, owners of such bastions of liberal journalism as the National Post and Ottawa Citizen, is reporting that NDP leader Thomas Mulclair has a mortgage on…
Open Source Politics
“Us Now” is a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet and tells the stories of online networks that are challenging the existing notion…
The Coniving party of Canada.
How far would $57 Billion dollars have taken EI here during this corporate/bank created debacle known as a "recession"? According to the NDP, the Tories eroded a $57-billion surplus in…
This is PR: The Realities of Public Relations 11th Ed. (Newsom et al.) Chapter 1 Summary
So I’m starting to explore my future career in communications. I’m starting by reading This is PR: The Realities of Public Relations, which is apparently the standard introductory textbook for…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Bruce Johnstone reminds us that much of Stephen Harper’s low-wage, anti-worker agenda has been rather poorly hidden for a long time: Everything from…
Facebook Blocks Blogspot.ca
Facebook has blocked blogspot.ca. This means anyone with a blog on Blogger in Canada can’t post their links to Facebook. I’ve written then about it this morning. Hopefully they will…