Stephen Harper and the Silent Coup
I've been writing about Stephen Harper for a long time, and every year the picture on the screen gets darker and more sinister. Just as I always knew it would.…
2012
Come 2015, don’t expect the Harper Tories to do aught but rag on our Maple Leaf Flag
Canada’s Maple Leaf Flag. Below: Lester B. Pearson, the prime minister whose vision gave us the flag; Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the father of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The…
One More Thing.
Oh, and, uh, here’s one more thing. This is for Albertan trans folks who filed human rights complaints following the delisting of GRS funding in 2009 and on into 2012,…
Canada’s Self-Imposed Crisis in Post-Secondary Education
On June 7, I gave a keynote address to the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees Education Sector Conference. My PowerPoint presentation (with full references) can be found at this link.…
Hurting Animals Hurts You
PETA should use a new argument against animal cruelty, Luka Magnotta. Luka Magnotta, the accused killer who dismembered a man and sent body parts in the mail across Canada, shares…
4715…Most Famous Man In Peterboro’s History
Gotta be the cannibal of the hour: Luke Magnotta. Sorry Dean Del Mastro. Sorry. WFDS
Sharing the voices in my head with the women of the night
Have you ever noticed the rush of adrenalin through the veins in your arms and hands? It happens whenever you are getting ready to do something that requires an increased…
4714…Bob Rae On Leadership
He is my Facebook buddy and he just FB’d me that he hasn’t made up his mind. The tension builds. Cool, kewl. WFDS
4713…NDP Shows They Have Stones
bcblue, a blog of some sort, is all pissy coz as it turns out an NDP staffer in Winnipeg did some snooping around our top cop’s business. NDP intern also…
Run, Bob, Run – And Many Others as Well
Let’s face the facts right here and now: with the recent news that the Liberal executive will allow Bob Rae to run for the permanent leadership position (and suffice to…
Are You A Terrorist? To Harper, the RCMP and CSIS, You Might Well Be.
You might be to Stephen Harper’s twisted mind, at least if you’re opposed to the Athabasca Tar Sands and the associated pipelines and supertanker traffic that threaten northern and coastal…
Peregrine Falcons in Regina
I’d recently wondered what became of the falcons that were popularized on TV during my youth. There was a project in Regina, at City Hall, to help the birds come…
Modern capitalists hate capitalism
You can sum up any current financial news in to a few categories. You’ll either find yourself reading about: A solution proposed by those responsible for the problem that when…
Rocco Rossi: The human cost of the eurozone crisis
Blaming workers for being greedy or selfish only goes so far. Wanting fair wages for honest work is not wrong. The workers at GM in Oshawa wanted a decent living;…
Fauxmnibus Bill
Maybe I’m starting to sound like a shameless Elizabeth May fanboy but that’s only because…I’m a shameless Elizabeth May fanboy! How can you not be when she gets up in…
Fauxmnibus Bill
Maybe I’m starting to sound like a shameless Elizabeth May fanboy but that’s only because…I’m a shameless Elizabeth May fanboy! How can you not be when she gets up in…
May Another Man Win
The Libs have decided to let Bob Rae run for the LPoC leadership. Which is OK by me because I basically think he’s served the party well, is not some…
Open Postal Codes: A Public Response to Canada Post on how they undermine the public good
Earlier this week the Ottawa Citizen ran a story in which I’m quoted about a fight between Treasury Board and Canada Post officials over making postal code data open. Treasury…
Rae Allowed to Run
Like we didn’t already know he was a truth stretching sack of dung. CBC is reporting that the Liberal Executive (thanks for your leadership Mike Crawley) will, indeed, announce Unlce…