Robert Bryce from the fossil fuel industry-funded Manhattan Institute just can't bring himself to answer a simple question about the fossil fuel industry funding flowing into his group. Readers of…
Big Mining is at it again. In Ontario, you’d think that Dalton McGuinty had learned his lesson by now. In 2008 the provincial government was offering carte blanche to mining…
LabourStart, the union movement’s premier international news and campaigning service, held its annual global solidarity conference on November 18–20 in Istanbul, Turkey. Titled “From Global Networks to Global Revolution,” the…
There are pending changes to the Criminal Proceedings Rules (Rules) for the Superior Court of Justice (Ontario). The new Rules will be published in the Canada Gazette on February 29,…
I have only had enough time to skim through the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in California’s Proposition 8, the gay marriage ban. As we all know, the appeals…
Stonewalling WithoutWallyVille Remember when Gordon Campbell told Joy McPhail to go FOI herself after she raised the possibility that BC Rail and CN Rail and Mr. Campbell’s government were getting…
Since my last post a dog’s age ago, I have moved to the City that Never Shuts the Hell Up – Toronto, Ontario. I’m not exactly on the coast, or…
“Scores of labour activists and seniors started occupying the offices of Conservative MPs in Ontario Thursday afternoon to protest possible changes in the retirement income system. Supporters of a so-called…
I don’t care for coffee. I don’t make this a secret, even though I probably should, since non-coffee drinkers are often looked at as some sort of aliens who are…
I wasn’t surprised and what Alberta Premier Alison Redford recently said, namely: “The Alberta government is looking to clear a path for the oil sands through British Columbia by upping…
As the 2014 Toronto municipal election campaign wound down to a close, opponents of the mayor wondered what went wrong. Once again they had underestimated Rob Ford, the big guy…
Canadians pay too much for telecom service; we can see that in the response to our Stop The Squeeze campaign. In order for Canadians to obtain fair pricing there needs…
This book was written 23 years ago and the problems facing humanity have shifted slightly in the interim, mainly because even more critical crises have emerged. Also some of the…
This book was written 23 years ago and the problems facing humanity have shifted slightly in the interim, mainly because even more critical crises have emerged. Also some of the…
The motion to maintain the age requirements for OAS at 65 was defeated. The motion read: That the House reject calls by the Prime Minister to balance the Conservative deficit…
A new recording from one of my favourite performers Rodney DeCroo is always a treasure, especially coming as this one does in the midst of Winter’s least cheery days. DeCroo’s…
This will set the teeth of right-wing Americans on edge. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, in an interview on Egyptian television, said she wouldn’t recommend using the U.S.…
From movement organizing to individual relationships, Lynne Davis’s new anthology, Alliances, explores the tensions and possibilities of coalitions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples today. Exploring the links between Indigenous struggles…
As many economists have pointed out, and our PM who claims to be an economist refuses to hear, every petro-state has an inflated value to their currency. We already know…
