Repression is in the eye of the beholder
When is a person officially “repressed”? Everyone seems to have a different idea of when repression warrants retaliation and revolt. For some, it seems that nothing less of 20 years…
May 2012
4671…Jean Charest Makes Someone Else Jump
The boss is not taking the fall for the mini revolution on the Island of Montreal. But, as The Globe and Mail reports, “Luc Bastien, who was appointed Premier Charest’s…
Harper Majority vs The Opposition
Go serpentine!
Hospital Food: Will evidence and accountability be the end of rethermalized food?
The food served in hospital may be directly linked to chances of survival for critically ill patients according to Dr. Daren Heyland, a staff physician at Kingston General Hospital. Heyland…
Just a Coincidence?
Surely there can be no other explanation for the fact that at the same time that Human Resources Minister Diane Finley has announced new rules for those claiming E.I. benefits,…
The Con Mob and the Sad Case of David Wilks
Oh.My.Gorilla. I told you the Con mob was scarier than the Sopranos eh? Just look what they did to poor David Wilks. One moment he was criticizing Stephen Harper's sinister…
CHAPTER 8: The Miserable Metrics of Neoliberalism
Conclusion to Chapter 8 Consistent with the main line of argument in this thesis then, is the proposition that labour market flexibilisation is the other side of the neoliberal policy…
WIN! Scambaiting the Nigerian bank scammers.
From the description under the youtube video: This is a video created by a Nigerian email scammer. You know the type. We’ve all received their emails. They usually start with…
The Economics of EI “Reform”
Changes to the EI rules announced by the government today are not rooted in any lengthy policy rationale. But Minister Finley and and the media release spoke to the need…
Pot Protests Spread in Montreal (No, Not That Kind)
Saturday May 19, there weren’t many poople out pounding on pots and pans in Montreal to protest emergency legislation limiting public demonstrations and many other things as the long student…
Montreal protest map
According to Twitter, here’s the route map that protesting students gave to Montreal police:
Classifying the unemployed
Because we have do something, McDonalds is importing temporary workers and there are unemployed Canadians that could be flipping those burgers. So to fix the problem, the Harper regime will…
NRDC Report Predicts 150,000 Heat-Related Deaths Due To Climate Change
Melting Ice People WWF Rosa Merk.jpg Chances are, if you're already concerned about being off'ed by climate change, it's probably because you imagine being swept away by a super-charged hurricane,…
Menzingers – Nice Things
The video kind of blows, but the song is genius, and the album it comes from is 2012′s best, so far. These guys are now what Against Me stopped being,…
Decolonizing Anarchism: An Anticolonial Critique
There was an “anti-colonial Victoria Day” book launch in Montreal on May 21, where Maia Ramnath presented her new book Decolonizing Anarchism, published by AK Press and the Institute for…
May 24: How not to write a news story
It’s the banner headline on the front page “Former CN Terminal Plaza to be reborn” Then there’s the sub-head that says, “Major renovation a show of private investor confidence in…
If the Federal Government was serious about banning clothing linked to riots they’d ban Canucks jerseys
Forget the masks (With apology to Emma Teitel)
Context matters in interpretation of contracts
Words never "speak for themselves". They have to be placed in a factual matrix. Today's decision in Lloyds Syndicate 1221 (Millennium Syndicate) v. Coventree Inc., 2012 ONCA 341 has some helpful language in…
Thunder Bay lags behind other hospitals in fulfilling freedom of information request
Evidently some hospitals have kinks to work out in their processing of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests. In mid-February we sent out requests – along with an initial $5 fee…
How the West Was Won – Art of Nicola Verlato
Nicola Verlato’s “How the West Was One” is a visually striking series of oil on canvas that tells the tale of the culture clash between monotheism and polytheism throughout human…