Meilinomics II: Income from Within
The following is another excerpt from Dr. Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy, which fellow blogger Greg Fingas has been…
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In Brad Wall’s ‘Saskatchewan’ … Workers Are Secondary To The Needs Of His Corporate Pals ….
REGINA — The Saskatchewan Federation of Labour is raising concerns about the treatment of temporary foreign workers after three Mexican men say their experience has soured their view of Canada.…
Draft Day ‘Rider Blogging
Having dealt with the question of stadium construction in this morning’s column, I’ll take a moment to comment on the ‘Riders’ offseason – which looks to have taken another turn…
Gimme a L!
Hey! I got a letter! Cool! No one ever sends me letters anymore… now, let me see what’s… um… WTF???? Since this is a day that where the word “letter”…
The Hysterical Hyperbole of The Globe’s Neil Reynolds
The other day I wrote a post about the right-wing propaganda machine going into high gear as a result of the McGuinty compromise with the NDP that will result in…
New column day
Here, on the latest attempt by the City of Regina to lump a stadium into several other unrelated plans in an attempt to win higher-level funding – and the need…
On this F35 v. Buying A Car Analogy Spin
The F-35 is in the news again, or at least the Harper regime’s complete bungling of the acquisition and the subsequent complete misleading of Parliament on the costs of the…
Extractive Capitalism and the Divisions in the Latin American Progressive Camp
It can be argued that the concessions to the extractive MNC and local ‘leading’ classes assures stability, steady revenues and finances the incremental social expenditures which permit the re-election of…
In Stephen Harper’s ‘Canada’ Having A Piss Pot Full Of Money Makes ALL The Difference ….
“Canadian immigration lawyers on Wednesday said it’s extraordinarily rare for the federal government to grant the right to reside here to convicted felons while they’re still in prison.” The Globe…
F-35: Thirty Five ways to Fail
MacKay has implicated the whole CPC cabinet as being complicit in an attempt to deceive voters prior to last year’s election as to the true cost of new fighter jets.…
‘this machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender"
Happy 93rd birthday Pete Seeger! Would somebody give this guy a Nobel prize already? (btw, this has been the wallpaper on my computer desktop for about the last six months)…
4578…FInally A Feel Good NFL Story
From my friend Len Berman: Finally a feel-good story. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have signed free agent defensive tackle Eric LeGrand out of Rutgers. Yes, the same Eric LeGrand who…
4577…Gone With The Wind
On this day in 1937 Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for her antebellum novel Gone With The Wind. I am telling you someday someone is going to make that…
May 3: ooh!ooh! Big story..but hush hush…..
Are you ready? Last summer, a busload of 40 people from the British government, the royal household, and even the provincial government travelled around the New Brunswick to see where…
Will the Quebec Spring Migrate South?
Students in Quebec have been boycotting classes for more than eighty days in protest of the provincial government’s decision to raise university tuition fees 75% over the next five years.…
4576…Billy Graham On Gay Marriage
He’s against it. OMG. Stop the presses. For those of you over 30 Billy Graham was a TV preacher who was pretty much a rock star in the 1960s to…
Conservatives, Seeking To Show They Are Open-Minded, Ignore Contrary Evidence (And No, This Is Not an Onion Article)
brainsWEB.jpg I was on the road last week, so I couldn’t properly respond to this Daily Caller item, which is really sort of marvelous. Basically, it’s an attempt to use…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – The Cons’ move to suppress Canadian wages by encouraging the use of disposable, temporary foreign labour is receiving plenty of due outcry.…
Connecting the Dots: Extreme Weather, First Nations Rights, And Our Addiction To Dirty Energy
There’s so much going on in the climate change world these days, it’s hard to keep up. This Saturday is 350.org’s Connect The Dots event, where thousands of people across…
Why we are Muskrat Fallsing #nlpoli
Natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy explained it all in the House of Assembly on Wednesday: …let’s be clear on why we are developing Muskrat Falls, if we develop it. It…