She Has His Number
As Theresa Spence enters the tenth day of her hunger strike — and as Canada’s First Nations put the Harper government on notice that they will be Idle No Longer…
2012
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jim Stanford is the latest to point out that the Cons see accountability and transparency solely as punishments to be inflicted on their…
Why The Income Inequality Deniers Are Wrong
This article was published in an abridged form today in the National Post. http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/12/21/armine-yalnizyan-sorry-andrew-coyne-but-income-inequality-is-a-real-problem/ I like this opening better so I posted it here. You couldn’t have made it through…
Forum Poll: 31% Con, 28% NDP, 27% Lib, and Trudeau/Garneau Polling!!~!
Everyone’s favourite pollster (except Warren Kinsella), Forum Research, has come out with their monthly Canada-wide political issues poll, showing a rather large shift in the topline vote intentions that seems…
Four words about the Mayan Apocalypse
For all of you New Agers who expected something momentous to happen, December 21, because an obscure, millennium-old calendar ended on that date, and are disappointed that the world didn’t…
Akin’s Got A New Show On Fox News North
The description: This show is 100% focused on the political battles taking place across Canada, in the United States…even around the world. We’re not about the corridors of power or…
Video (full speech) of Assange 2012 Christmas address: WikiLeaks has ‘over a million docs prepared for release’ in 2013
On Thursday WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange delivered a Christmas address from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy. He said “… despite the extra-judicial banking blockade, which circles WikiLeaks…
Shift Happens
* It’s solstice 2012, and we are on the verge of a paradigm shift. Here’s some inspiration for the journey, from SustainableMan.org: *
Alberta Threatens ROC While Simultaneously Begging For Help
Despoil your province to get their product to foreign markets. Please. Otherwise they’ll be trouble. An almost identical story here, if you don’t feel like tricking the G&M pay-wall.
The Teens and 40s #nlpoli
As the last instalment in our survey of birth rates, let’s take a look at the group 15 to 19 and the other end of the scale for statistics, women…
The Sun Keeps Rising
click to enlarge The world ain’t ending folks. View from my kitchen while getting kids their breakfast. Filed under: Miscellany
Clay Lipsky – Atomic Overlook
Clay Lipsky – Atomic Overlook All this reminds me of Alex Colville’s painting, Pacific. This fellow has evolved to where he now occupies the potential last chapter of history where…
Why is Stephen Harper Afraid of Chief Spence?
It's hard to believe that a native leader from a suffering community, would have to go on a hunger strike, to try to get a meeting with a Canadian Prime…
Ready for the end
Frankly I don’t understand what all the fuss is about
What Can America Teach Canada About Health Care Reform?
{The following post was written as a column for the January 2013 edition of the Anahim – Nimpo Lake Messenger. –MC} Last month, I commented that in the future we…
#AblegCares
So, myself, Joey Oberhoffner, Derrick Jacobson (@AlbertaAltruist), Marc Doll (@DollHouseYYC), and Stephen Anderson (@StephenDAnderso) got together to eat tacos. For charity. For every taco eaten we’d get our pledges to…
Pat Martin and the Rat Faced Cons
Golly. I have no idea why Pat Martin called the Cons rat faced whores.Martin launched into a Twitter tirade for the ages Wednesday night, calling the Conservative Party “rat faced…
Canadian Labour Congress supports Idle No More and Chief Spence
by Canadian Labour Congress: The Canadian Labour Congress supports Chief Theresa Spence of the Attawapiskat First Nation in northern Ontario, who is on a hunger strike in Ottawa. She is…