Dear Solar Storm watchers,
Don’t worry. These solar storms are nothing compared to the volcanoes and earthquakes I have witnessed. You humans will be just fine, I hope.
2012
Should Ontario Become an Independent Country?
Ok just forget how crazy the questions sounds. The recent wrangling between Ontario and Alberta over the value of the Canadian dollar, oil output and the decline of manufacturing in…
How much is that Muskrat in the window? #nlpoli
So without much effort, the cost of Muskrat Falls, also known as the island infeed project, has gone from $6.2 billion to $8.9 billion. That’s without factoring in labour costs.…
New school rankings!
The Fraser Institute school ranking have been released and Pleasant Park PS has moved up the scale considerably! Congrats! I am not a huge fan of these rankings (nor of…
Robocon: Bob Rae has 12 days to protect Canada’s democracy by stopping the clock
The clock is ticking and there are less than three weeks to go (around 12 days as of today) before voters lose their right to appeal to the courts under…
Timeline of Conservative Election Chicanery
1995 The year Vic Toews entered the legislature representing the Manitoba PCs, the party covertly funded left-wing independents in order to split the opposition NDP’s vote. Although there was a…
4323…Israeli Apartheid Week = Antisemitism?
I know that it is Israeli Apartheid Week, at least at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. My question is is Israeli Apartheid Week just antisemitism dressed up in…
FEMA Throws In the Towel? Not Quite Yet.
“We cannot afford to continue to respond to disasters and suffer impacts — particularly looking at large-scale catastrophic disasters — under the current program. It will fail.” That little ray…
Happy Women’s Day. Have you found YOUR feminism today?
Don’t you love that ad? I sure do. It’s a timely reminder of just what we’re all up against. Here’s another: ThinkProgress was being a little low-ball on the count…
But…but…lefties use bad words on the internet
Dear people who like to claim “both sides do it” and bemoan the use of strong or obscene language on the part of the lefty and progressive bloggers and claim…
The Cullen Plan
I don’t like it. I think its a stupid idea that only benefits the NDP in most ridings, and us in fewer ridings, and the Greens in zero ridings. The…
“Globalization” and Unions
Last weekend I participated in a labour law conference at the University of Western Ontario, speaking on a panel which was asked to weigh in on the impact of trade…
Extra! Extra! No New Taxes!
With an election call expected within weeks, the Alberta PCs are blanketing the airwaves with advertising touting their pledge to not raise taxes. Well, let me rephrase that – the…
Conservative phone call harassment on tape
Listen to the tapes here. A former employee of RMG said things like this: «Oh, vous n’êtes pas un conservateur? Nous ne voulons pas parler à un socialiste ou à…
Mike Lester presents the south’s take on Obama and Sandra Fluke
From Georgia’s Rome News Tribune. Yeah, let that sink in. You’ve got the African-American President is a 70′s pimp angle, the Sandra Fluke is a whore angle, the “evil light-skinned…
It’s International Women’s Day – And we’re digging through the Art Threat archives
Sarah Maple — Signs, C-Type Print, 2007 As today is International Women’s Day, I thought it would be worthwhile to dig though our archives and offer up a selection of…
Iceland and the Loonie
Dean Baker has weighed in on the weird idea that Iceland might adopt the Canadian dollar. It is their decision to make, but I also don’t see much to recommend…
Something to do on International Women’s Day
The political degeneracy of our country continues. Even for Stephen Harper, this is truly disgusting: a homophobic far-right fringe group, REAL Women of Canada, has been enlisted by the Conservative…
Remembering Lea Roback on International Women’s Day
One of my heros has always been Lea Roback, a Quebec feminist and union militant, who died at 97 in 2000. A film was made about her life which is…