800px-Atlantic_hurricane_tracks.jpg Uh oh. Hurricane season has started early. On Saturday (the 19th), when Tropical Storm Alberto spun up off the Carolina coast, forecaster Brennan of the National Hurricane Center had…
As I’m sure most of you know, Montreal now has a bylaw banning masks at protests. Mayor Gérald Tremblay asks, “When a cause is just, why is it necessary to…
As I'm sure most of you know, Montreal now has a bylaw banning masks at protests. Mayor Gérald Tremblay asks, "When a cause is just, why is it necessary to…
As I’m sure most of you know, Montreal now has a bylaw banning masks at protests. Mayor Gérald Tremblay asks, “When a cause is just, why is it necessary to…
To say the Dean Del Mastro makes Jason Kenney look like a genius! That is all. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Via Monkey Cage comes a link to a study that shows that the average speech comprehension level in the United States Congress has dropped a full grade level in the…
Go to google. type in manifencours. The first entry to come up should be the twitter site for the strike in Montreal. And it gives a very different picture from…
Here in Canada, there are certain limits on how much an individual donor can give to the political campaign of a candidate. I believe it’s around the vicinity of $1400…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Brian Topp weighs in on Canada’s history of raw resource exploitation that should offer a lesson for anybody interested in learning. And pogge…
Yesterday saw the convergence of two events: the 100th day of the student strike marked by a demonstration of more than 150,000 people in the streets of Montreal and the…
A caveat: I haven’t taken constitutional politics in over a decade, though I was fortunate enough to have Peter Russell as a professor and had issues with Ted Morton eons…
An island with a little under 2,000,000 people. Let’s say 50,000 or 250,000 have been demonstrating against the sitting government. For over 100 days. I would think that having between…
It is perfectly reasonable that the federal government change the EI rules so that an unemployed person must accept a job within an hour’s drive from home – or be…
The New York Times lead editorial today is extremely pertinent as regional cyberspace swirls with analysis and pictures from yesterday’s huge (and probably illegal) demonstration in Montreal. “Full Disclosure for…
Just got this email: Glenn Beck is an anti-Semite. He says the “most dangerous people” are mainly Jews. He has described Jewish leaders as leaders of “shadow governments” and said…
OTTAWA—When he assumed power six years ago, Stephen Harper let it be known he would brook no opposition from the naysayers on Afghanistan. “There may be some who may want…
That’s Guy Giorno, speaking at a lobbyist conference thing in Toronto, just a few minutes ago. He’s a smart fellow. As things turn out, Giorno was a long-time legal advisor…
Hundreds of thousands of people poured into Montreal’s streets last night to show their displeasure at the provincial government’s draconian anti-protest law, Loi #78. Watching the action on Twitter last…
Quote: Kinsella isn’t just what draws listeners to Why Do You Hate Me?, it’s also the reason the album is so much fun. His delivery is snotty in the best,…
Protests are happening all over the world. Protests against governments. Protests against corporations, bankers, oil companies, the 1% who profit while the rest of us pay the price for the…
