Orange Blood
I bet you think this is about the NDP Leadership convention. Think again. This weekend I got to attend a convention of my own. A genuine Women’s Convention of closely…
2012
The Magic 2C By 2100? We’ll Hit 3C by 2050.
A joint BBC/climateprediction.net simulation relying on mid-range emission scenarios concludes it’s likely global warming will exceed 3 degrees Celsius by 2050. That pretty much blows out the long-established target of…
lawTechCamp 2012 is Looking for Students
Are you interested in the intersection between law and technology? Here’s a message from the sponsors: After the great success we had last year with lawTechCamp,we are back again this…
The Casino-Industrial-Complexities….One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other.
AllFOI’sAreNot EquivalentVille Ian Reid, has already done a lot of digging into the process that led to the aborted attempt to shoehorn a Casino-Industrial-Complex right next to the Devil-Horned, Re-Roofed…
Mulcair Shows Liberals the Way to Do It
There is one reason I like Thomas Mulcair. It isn’t his politics, which while closer to me than any other possible NDP leader save for maybe Martin Singh, I still…
alberta’s tories could have already won another election.
Alberta Premier Alison Redford Premier Alison Redford is expected to call a provincial election today. Had Premier Alison Redford‘s Progressive Conservatives followed conventional political wisdom and dropped the writ shortly…
Understanding the Victory of Thomas Mulcair
Most of the mainstream media, with the help of the Mulcair and Topp campaigns, constructed the leadership battle at the NDP convention as a battle between those who wanted to…
Free Dominion Chimes in on Yesterday’s Events
If you pick a thread on Free Dominion, it seems like the posters there are a little schizophrenic in that they will hold any view, even if it might contradict…
Well, Time For a Post
So, there’s a few things to talk about. Firstly, we’re going to discuss the recent NDP Leadership convention. Secondly, we’ll look at the most recent developments regarding the Robocall Scandal,…
Advocating for a diversity of tactics – Journal of Aesthetics and Protest #8 now available in print
This chart shows how the editors ‘understand how each writer's article functionalizes distrust/trust of institutionality in relationship to how much mediation they understand is useful in reflecting on the complexity…
What the federal budget will say, and what it really means…cue Carlin
When Thursday rolls around Canadians will be finding out exactly what kind of government a minority of some 40% chose. We’re being told that the budget will focus on certain…
ConCalls: Not Serious? Get Serious!
It should be obvious to most people that the Liberal Party of Canada isn’t behind the vast majority of illegal phone calls made to voters during the May 2, 2011…
matt green is just walkin’ again. this time it’s nyc.
Some two years ago, I posted about Matt Green, who (as I said at the time) was living my oldest dream: walking across the United States. Now Matt Green is…
#ndpldr pics, video and a few thoughts
It was a very long Saturday at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre — about 12 hours for me, longer for others — for the NDP to arrive at what, for…
Dear Asma al-Assad,
As first lady of Syria, do you approve of your country’s continual shelling of the city of Homs, your father’s hometown? If so, I don’t understand why.
Will Thomas Mulcair (out of necessity) become our own Harper?
I believe that Harper and his bullies have poisoned our political culture in what might be a more or less permanent way. Even if we can escape this atmosphere of…
Dirty hospitals: horror shows about cleaning, cutbacks and privatization
CBC Marketplace has a really compelling exposé of the effects of cutbacks to and privatization of hospital cleaning. Astounding. Cleaners who used to have responsibility for one floor now cleaning…
Rae Reacts To Mulcair On Co-operation
I’m a bit surprised how little attention Bob Rae’s appearance on Question Period today is receiving. Worth a view, because if I’m reading it correctly, Rae seems to be taking…