Idle No More dance and speeches on Parliament Hill (VIDEO)
This colorful video of the December 21, 2012, Idle No More protest on Parliament Hill, will always remain one of the highlights of my career as a progressive activist. The…
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chief theresa spence calling for solidarity actions on sunday, december 30
Media ReleaseFor Immediate Release December 28, 2012 Attawapiskat Chief Spence heading into day 19 of hunger strike and seeking Canadians, Members of Parliament and politicians to urge Prime Minister Harper…
Best Abbott & Costello Routine of 2012: The F-35 Fighter Jets
The Abbott & Costello routine above is exemplary of the Harper Government’s miscommunication. While the comedy routine is meant to amuse, the Government’s routine on F-35s is meant to obfuscate.…
My 8:30 a.m. call from ‘Disney’.
So, it’s Saturday morning. Eight-thirty to be precise. The phone rings. Who calls at 8:30 on a Saturday morning? Normally, nobody. But this Saturday, it could have been any number…
More Leaked Coren! Most People At Sun News Network Are Gay!
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Political Scapegoat of 2012: Michael Sona
Fraudulent phone calls and misremembered $21,000 cheques Sun News, the media wing of the Conservative Party of Canada, through its Parliament Hill Senior Correspondent Brian Lilley “scooped” everyone when they…
Is A Sun News Network Insider Trying To Screw The Sun News Network?
…or are they just trying to screw Michael Coren? This is the second bit of embarrassing Michael Coren footage to have appeared within the last couple of days. The first…
Sinking Cities: A Future with Rising Oceans
New York may be the environmental story of the year, not because of the 80 fatalities and the $50 billion in damages caused by so-called Superstorm Sandy, but because the…
Question and answer
Sixth Estate and impolitical have both followed up on the Cons’ attempts to attack Canada’s opposition parties for having the nerve to ask questions of their government by noting that…
Worst Hitler Political Comparison of 2012: Larry Miller
Because Larry Miller felt that having a national gun registry is just like something Hitler and the Nazis would have done, he felt the need to speak out. Then when…
Hunger striker Chief Spence urges supporters to maintain pressure on Stephen Harper
In the press release below, issued on Friday, December 28, hunger striker Chief Theresa Spence invites MPs and Senators to visit her at her teepee on Victoria Island, a short…
Big Oil’s Political Mouthpiece of 2012: Joe Oliver
Tailing Ponds Smoothie: this does not end well Say one thing about Minister of Natural Ressources Joe Oliver: say he’s transparent. By transparent, I mean he’s a obvious shill for…
The Grad School Gospels – Part 4: On Grad School Goggles and the Cult-Like Nature of Grad School
The Grad School Gospels is a series of posts inspired by Dirk Hayhurst‘s The Bullpen Gospels. In the Bullpen Gospels, Hayhurst tells stories from his struggle to self-actualize through professional…
Theresa Spence, the Tibetan Monks, and Canada’s Hypocrisy
I was disappointed, but not entirely surprised to read this weekend that the Globe & Mail has officially joined Postmedia’s Christie Blatchford in denouncing the ongoing hunger strike in Ottawa…
PEI – 2012 The Year of the ‘Unpleasable’
If Islanders wondered for even a moment if they made a difference this year fighting for their particular cause, they can rest easy. Proof that you had an impact was…
Worst Staged Political Photo-Op of 2012: Jason Kenney
Reaffirming Jason Kenney is an egomaniac To describe this story as simply a staged photo-op would be a great disservice to the grandiose dick waving contest that Minister of Immigration…
"Marginalization continued"
Writing in The Tyee, Bob Mackin makes an incisive point about recent work of Liberal remittance man Wally Oppal, the loyal BC Liberal go-between when $6-million cash from taxpayers topped…
5472…Chief Spence Is Looking For A Way Out
Diets, as you will discover January 2nd, are tough to keep. A fast or a cleanse, exponentially more difficult. And a nationally publicized hunger strike has to be infinitely harder…
#IdleNoMore: What Do Protesters Want?
Dr. Dawg: The other day, I got into it a bit with John Ivison, who expressed polite disdain for the allegedly “hapless” Chief Theresa Spence—and then admitted that he had…
BC May Be Headed for its Own Fiscal Cliff
Is BC careening towards the edge of its own ‘fiscal cliff’? Independent economist Erik Andersen believes that may be the case. Here, he adds up a number of troubling financial…