2012
The Black Bloc Doth Protest Too Much
Occupy Tactics: Violence and Legitimacy in the Occupy Movement and Beyond from brandon jourdan on Vimeo. It finally happened. After months of anarchists howling over journalist Chris Hedges’s controversial article…
5171…The Ottawa Subway
It ain’t nevah gonna happen, is it? LRT, Subway, whatever, Ottawa/Gatineau, your nation’s capital, is, at 1.3 million, the largest metro in North America without one of those thingys. Seriously.…
Being a Philosopher
My response to a comment from Pandora on a post about philosophy > “Isn’t philosophy taught mostly like read this, talk about it, write about it, argue about it.” Yes,…
Globe & Mail Takes Conservative Bait on MP Pension Reform…
… Although given how readily they swallowed it, it might be a bit of a stretch to call it bait in the first place. Apparently one of the items in…
Audio: Damien Gillis Discusses ‘Fractured Land’ Doc on SFU Radio
Damien Gillis discusses the forthcoming film Fractured Land with SFU Radio’s David Swan, along with a recent journey across northern BC to document a number of interconnected industrial projects. The…
Should Mulcair channel Hillary Clinton on the Ballot Box Question?
The 2015 election is already on, with Stephen Harper trying to choose the ballot question as anything but the poor Conservative performance in so many areas, the party’s blunders and…
5170…New British Ten Pound Note
Sure it is a cheap joke but it is a funny one. As Ron White says “If you’ve seen one girl naked you want to see all of them naked.”…
Earthgauge Radio September 20, 2012: National Organic Week and the local impacts of Ottawa’s summer drought
On Earthgauge Radio this week, we catch up with Stephanie Lane of Canadian Organic Growers (Ottawa chapter) to talk about Canada’s National Organic Week <http://www.organicweek.ca/>, which is happening from Sept…
BC NDP Leader Adrian Dix Speaks Truth To Vancouver Board of Trade
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger BC NDP Leader Adrian Dix is offering BC Voters, including the business community, a thoughtful and measured approach to governing after years of a troubled and…
In the northern Paris suburb of Sarcelles, one person was slightly hurt when two masked men threw a small explosive device through the window of a kosher supermarket.
A French magazine publishes immature and stupid cartoons – so blow up a kosher supermarket? Doesn't the illogic demonstrate something? http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE88I0BU20120919?irpc=932
Covert Attempt to Criminalize Abortion – MPs Debate in less then 48 hours
From LeadNow.ca 'In just 48 hours, our MPs will debate a Conservative motion that the Canadian Medical Association, representing 70,000 doctors, is calling a ‘backdoor’ attempt to criminalize abortion. Prime…
Covert Attempt to Criminalize Abortion – MPs Debate in less then 48 hours
From LeadNow.ca ‘In just 48 hours, our MPs will debate a Conservative motion that the Canadian Medical Association, representing 70,000 doctors, is calling a ‘backdoor’ attempt to criminalize abortion. Prime…
Covert Attempt to Criminalize Abortion – MPs Debate in less then 48 hours
From LeadNow.ca 'In just 48 hours, our MPs will debate a Conservative motion that the Canadian Medical Association, representing 70,000 doctors, is calling a ‘backdoor’ attempt to criminalize abortion. Prime…
Covert Attempt to Criminalize Abortion – MPs Debate in less then 48 hours
From LeadNow.ca ‘In just 48 hours, our MPs will debate a Conservative motion that the Canadian Medical Association, representing 70,000 doctors, is calling a ‘backdoor’ attempt to criminalize abortion. Prime…
CTFN: this is my daughter’s First Nation
…and this statement shows that, when it comes to self-government, the Harper cabal are a bunch of damned liars. “Canada’s great experiment in aboriginal self-government is about to collapse –…
“Mud walkers”?
Seriously, Dalton. You can hire better social media writers than this. Mud walkers? Don’t you mean “rubber boots”? (5) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
National Parks At Risk Of Exploitation From Oil And Gas Drilling
The U.S. National Park System currently encompasses more than 84 million acres of land in the United States, and if oil-funded politicians in Washington, D.C. get their way, those millions…