The ECB and the Euro Crisis
Here is an excellent commentary by Andrew Watt on the new ECB commitment to buy bonds without limit to reduce interest rates on the government debt of troubled members of…
September 2012
Such An Expressive Face
This is young Tim Hudak’s mad face. Damn those union bosses! Recommend this Post
What Has Changed Since September 11, 2001?
What Has Changed Since September 11, 2001? W2 Media Cafe and Siraat invite you to a public forum on Monday, September 10, 2012, looking at Canada’s racist legacy, as we…
About that Death Spiral Thingee
We had ten, maybe fifteen, years to find the sort of common resolve to mobilize our resources and focus them on the maladies that afflict us collectively. We did nothing.…
The Last Climate Change Skeptic
If Dr. Richard Muller, a professor of physics from the University of California, Berkeley, is not the last of the global climate change skeptics, he should be. For years he…
Redistribution 2012: Western Canada
So as I said in the post before, I’ve managed to get my hands on the transposed results of the 2011 election into the new federal boundaries, which gave us…
I really cannot imagine anything good…
… or productive coming out of this new, aggressive stance against Iran! Why, Stevo? What is there to gain from this? Need to grab some headlines? I don’t get it.…
An Embargo On Ideas In The Offing?
One of the pleasures of my retired life is getting together for coffee on a regular basis with my friend Ray, a retired vice-principal and one of the rare ‘good-guys’…
Economic Implosion is only one Factor in Our Demise
With no rebound in sight, there’s never been a slump like this – The Globe and Mail The focus here is on the usual neoliberal casino economics, not the real,…
“Having made the greatest legal blunder of the 20th century,” Dershowitz said of Darden, “he’s trying to blame it on the dead man.”
No matter your view on the case, it seems pretty thin to wait 17 years to blame someone who is dead and cannot respond; my view is the allegation is…
5142…Nanny Dalton McGuinty’s New Bar Law
Here he goes again. Spring of 2013 is the plan. WFDS
Democratic Party platform and the dismal record on civil liberties
The Republican Tampa outing was like an outsized town hall meeting compared to the Democrats’ mega-convention in Charlotte. The DNC audience was like a sea with no horizon… a microcosm…
5141…Prime Minister Harper Was Right
He was just visiting. The Toronto Sun breaks the story that the man that would be Prime Minister, Michael Ignatieff, is going back to Harvard to teach. You may now…
Former Manitoba Premier Howard Pawley Endorses Erin Weir For Leader Of The Saskatchewan New Democrats
The race to elect a new leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party is officially underway.First to toss his hat into the ring was Saskatoon NDP MLA Cam Broten. Broten…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Dr. Dawg tears into the National Post’s gratuitous union-bashing: (W)hen it comes to unions, a careless disregard for facts seems to affect journos…
Iggy, we hardly knew ye
…actually, we knew you quite well, as it turns out. Hands up anyone who is surprised by this. Anyone? Anyone? Didn’t think so.
Canada Cuts diplomatic ties with Iran
John Baird and Stephen Harper, while attending the APEC meeting in Russia, made a ‘brave’ move to close the Canadian embassy in Iran and asked Iranian diplomats to leave Canada.…
Spoiling For A Fight
Tony Burman writes in this morning’s Toronto Star that Canada has a new Foreign Affairs Minister: His name is Benjamin Netanyahu. His day job may be prime minister of Israel,…
Public sector employment increases 2.45%
Public sector employment made a significant comeback in August in Ontario, according to Statistics Canada. After significant declines since April 2011, public sector employment has now made up most of…