South America Backs Ecuador on Assange Asylum
This takes everything to a whole new level. The 12-foreign ministers of the Union of South American Nations have joined in support of a resolution backing Ecuador in granting asylum…
2012
RIM Layoffs in Waterloo? Deafening Silence
If you go to Google News and type RIM layoffs and sort by date, you’ll see a whole bunch of articles about the recent layoffs in Halifax: exact number (95),…
Pussy Riot Needles Putin
They’re off for two years in the slam for mocking Russia’s thug-in-chief, Vlad Putin, but Pussy Riot left a parting gift – a video entitled “Putin Lights Up the Fires.”…
GOP follies – what fun to watch!
Almost fell off my chair reading this over my morning coffee… Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, a conservative Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, sparked a furor and earned a rebuke…
Tory Affidavit Attempts to Cast Doubt on Robocalls Survey
The Council of Canadians presented polling data to back up claims that misleading calls in seven ridings affected the outcome of the 2011 federal election. Conservatives recently released an affidavit…
Tory Affidavit Attempts to Cast Doubt on Robocalls Survey
The Council of Canadians presented polling data to back up claims that misleading calls in seven ridings affected the outcome of the 2011 federal election. Conservatives recently released an affidavit…
Tory Affidavit Attempts to Cast Doubt on Robocalls Survey
The Council of Canadians presented polling data to back up claims that misleading calls in seven ridings affected the outcome of the 2011 federal election. Conservatives recently released an affidavit…
"Legitimate Rape"
Missouri Republican senate candidate Todd Akin is against abortion – under any circumstances – and that includes what he calls “legitimate rape.” According to Akin, victims of legitimate rape have…
Tory Affidavit Attempts to Cast Doubt on Robocalls Survey
The Council of Canadians presented polling data to back up claims that misleading calls in seven ridings affected the outcome of the 2011 federal election. Conservatives recently released an affidavit…
August 20: Another empty day in the Moncton Times
For the third day, there is a front page story about people flying kites – along with one and a half pages of pictures of kites for those who don’t…
National Energy Strategy a Deception of EPIC Proportions, Designed to Fleece Canadians
In this piece, the first of a series of three, we explore why a National Energy Program is political suicide, yet something called a National Energy Strategy is all the…
The Treacherous Prime Minister
Douglas Channel Steve Harper’s environmental assessment of the Northern Gateway bitumen pipeline proposal is an utter sham. Steve says the fate of the pipeline will be decided by science but,…
Class Struggle in Present Day Globalized Capitalism
Numerous books and professional articles have been written about class – inequalities, culture, internal differentiation (gender, ethnicity etc.). Labour specialists have discussed strikes, protests and collective bargaining. Few if any…
Pussy Riot? Can you Say Assange?
A well-known British politician, who is considered a bit of a ‘radical’ in the best sense, in the UK, has launched a defence of Julian Assange, pointing out that, should…
Curiosity Rover finds life on Mars. :)
Looks almost live!
Enbridge Treachery
The pipeline operator is working overtime to turn its Northern Gateway initiative into some abstract debate on resource wealth and opportunity (for some). It even produces animated video that greets…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Pratap Chatterjee discusses our new age of robber barons – and how the wealthiest CEOs get out of paying any tax at all…
The final piece
Let’s follow up on the news that the NDP is planning to assemble a Quebec provincial party in time for the next election with a look at how the move…
5053…More First World Problems
Got this off of BoingBoing.com. A brilliant student, Kaitlin Nootbaar, was denied her High School diploma for using the word “hell” in her Valedictorian speech, according to Oklahoma City’s KFOR.…
The case against Julian Assange
What is it that’s making governments in the West so afraid of information? Britain has platoons of police surrounding Ecuador’s embassy in London lest Julian Assange tries to make a…