Industrialized Poverty
The House(s) That Brian Built If there was any people NAFTA was supposed to help, surely it was the Mexicans. It was supposed to be their admission ticket to industrialization…
The House(s) That Brian Built If there was any people NAFTA was supposed to help, surely it was the Mexicans. It was supposed to be their admission ticket to industrialization…
Australia has taken a step in the right direction when it comes to protecting their natural environment. The country has announced that they’ll be creating the largest network of protected…
Years ago a friend asked me to drive them to the tanning salon. I was less than thrilled by this plan, but carried it out with much grumbling. It’s not…
Can anyone please tell me what the H, E, double hockey sticks is going on at Queen’s Park? Are Hudak and Horwath going to get their wish for an election,…
It’s grey and wet outdoors. It’s been grey and wet since, what, October? Just kidding, we’ve had a few nice days. Everybody’s sure of it even though nobody can agree…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Tom Korski nicely captures the essence of the Cons’ omnibus attack on the environment (along with anything that stands in the way of…
Nearly two years ago, the poet and blogger Alan Sullivan died. His final project, a new translation of the Book of Psalms, has been published. The translation can be ordered…
Today’s Statscan release of income data for 2010 allow for a backward glance at the state of the recovery. What is most striking is that – following two years of…
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Pierre Leichner uses grass to make sculptures — for The Grassroots Project, in the shape of faces of community workers and activists from Vancouver’s East Side. The living sculptures, pictured…
FRIENDS says the CRTC should defer a decision on a CBC proposal to cut off free over-the-air TV service to large numbers of Canadians until the Corporation’s network licences are…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter on this humid day in Toronto! John McCain Calls US Supreme Court ‘Uniformed, Arrogant, Naive’ for Citizens United Bill…
… damn right it won’t! There was a good piece on Saturday by Kate Heartfield (one of the better writers at the Shitizen) about the inefficiencies of the publicly-funded separate…
We were successful in stopping the push for website blocking and Internet termination powers, but now it’s clear why the government refuses to listen to Canadians in regards to restrictive…
Notice how the water is almost free of ice?
“Rumpelstiltskin,” 1957 Once upon a time in a distant land, a miller boasted to his king that his daughter could spin straw into gold. Intrigued, the king locked her up…
Former Etobocoke-Centre Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj has won headlines for his legal challenge to force a by-election due to election irregularities, and it appears another former Liberal MP, Joe Volpe,…
So, I’ve started riding my bike to work a couple of times a week again and as usual it’s a pretty awesome way to get around. Not only do I…
One Twitter exchange on Monday morning raised the possibility that Tory MHA Paul Lane was referring to something that happened during the debate last week on changes to the access…
It is difficult to think of a much more offensive consideration than this – well, maybe asking if a father’s religion makes him unfit would count. How about saying, listen…