What’s Your Freedom Worth? – Movie Monday
So, in our continued “back to Movie Monday basics” series we take a look this week at what it means to be free in our “free and democratic” Canada. Rules…
July 2012
Breaking Bad Season 4 is now on Netflix
Perhaps not the best time of year to be watching TV on the Internet, but it if rains… NOW on Netflix! Hi Because you enjoyed Breaking Bad in the past,…
Walking as art to avoid global catastrophe – Review: The Robinson Institute by Patrick Keiller at Tate Britain
Portrait of Patrick Keiller. (Photo: Samuel Drake) It is not always the case that definitive moments in art history can be precisely located. Certainly not the first act of artistic…
Should we choose David Merner as new leader of the Liberals, over Justin Trudeau?
Little seedlings of support for David Merner as the next leader of the LPC are sprouting up. Three seedlings Dan Arnold of the National Post has this to say about…
A CLASSE act for Quebec’s next provincial election
Should an election be called, the more militant group of the Quebec student protest movement will mobilze students against ideology and neo-liberal politics. That’s according to CLASSE’s new manifesto, recently…
Please Keep your Mouth Shut Nazanin. . .
For those of you who didn’t catch it on CBC, Nazanin Afshin-Jam, the spouse of our own Minister of Defence, was interviewed the other day concerning Iran. Now, other than…
4882…Tories Announce Cancelling Jet Buys
Well they should. C’mon, c’mon, let’s face facts: The F something or others are way,way,way too expensive. Shoot, for the price of one plane the Stephen Harpers could build a…
Huffington Post: OpenMedia op-ed on the TPP’s Internet trap
Our very own Reilly Yeo and Steve Anderson write about how the TPP’s Internet trap would create a “world where you could receive a fine, and possibly be dragged before…
Duets for Abdelrazik help keep human rights abuses in spotlight
Sam Shalabi joins Stefan Christoff on stage at the June 16 launch of Duets for Abdelrazik. To understand the grotesque, inhuman and criminal depths to which the Canadian government will…
Romney, Obama Surrogates Spar Over Energy Policy
energy vote.jpg On Wednesday of this week, representatives from both the Obama and Romney campaigns debated issues of energy and environment, where the two campaigns’ differences on issues ranging from…
Molly’sBlog 2012-07-15 17:50:00
ANARCHIST LITERATURE:NEW BOOK FROM ARTHUR J. MILLER:Good old A.J.. Here’s a collection of his working class writings in book form. Always relevant over the decades. Here’s the plug… FW Arthur…
Love and Memory at the Lake
My husband Jim and I met and married ‘up at the lake’ as we call our summer place in the Quebec Laurentians. Jim’s parents met and married at the lake…
Investing in the Green & White – Why Not in Green Power?
At yesterday’s Saskatchewan Roughrider game, Premier Wall announced provincial funding for a new stadium: an $80-million grant and a $100-million loan to be repaid over time through a surcharge on…
The Camino de Santiago
There's not a lot of places here that have internet access but I just wanna share that I am already doing the Camino Frances for the past two days. I…
The Camino de Santiago
There’s not a lot of places here that have internet access but I just wanna share that I am already doing the Camino Frances for the past two days. I…
The Camino de Santiago
There's not a lot of places here that have internet access but I just wanna share that I am already doing the Camino Frances for the past two days. I…
Harper Moves to Reinstate Fear & Helplessness For Terminally Ill Canadians
That sounds like hyperbole. It’s not. The Harper government is appealing a B.C. Supreme Court decision upholding the right of the terminally ill to physician-assisted suicide. Harper wants to restore…
Canadian Farmers Hard Hit by Climate Change
Farmers in far more than half of the United States are now busily filling out forms for emergency drought relief. This year’s corn crop is said to be particularly devastated,…
Pieces: A Newspaper’s Portrait of a Planet
Collect enough pieces of information and they eventually fit together into a meaningful pattern. But rarely do enough of them appear in one newspaper on one day to create an…