My Country?
Inspired by images of Tahltan women blockading Shell in defense of the Sacred Headwaters in northern British Columbia, Rachelle Van Zanten wrote ‘My Country’. She was invited to perform it…
2012
Cut Money To Health for Aboriginals (Apprently their Healthy enough)
Aboriginal communities require an enormous amount of aid. We known for many many years that aboriginal communities have one of the highest rates of poverty and have very high rates…
Financial Planning for Kids
GC and Rosie and I were out walking on Saturday afternoon, when we encountered the following scene. Two boys, perhaps eleven or twelve years old, had climbed up on top…
Tori Stafford murder trial: Tori’s blood found in Rafferty’s gym bag, trial told
This really is critical evidence; independent corroboration of what Terri-Lynne McClintic has been saying: http://www.thestar.com/mobile/NEWS/article/1159650 LONDON, ONT.— Science took centre stage at theTori Stafford murder trial Wednesday as the…
Torquing public safety #nlpoli
Search and rescue on the east coast of Canada is one of those cases where you can complain that all three political parties – provincial and federal – are guilty…
Cash for kids
Former Judge on Trial in ‘Cash for Kids’ Scheme, JON HURDLE and SABRINA TAVERNISE, New York Times, February 8, 2011 “SCRANTON, Pa. — A former Pennsylvania judge went on trial…
Scrub, scrub, scrub
TRIUMF, located at the University of BC, is a laboratory for nuclear and particle physics research and related sciences. It is funded in part by the Government of British Columbia.…
Alberta Leaders’ Debate Drinking Game
Every time there is a political Leaders’ Debate, the minuscule minority that is the “politically engaged all-the-time” populace jokes that there should be a drinking game associated with the debate.…
Go figure! Elections Alberta demands group with no ads on website register for ads on website
A group of typical Albertan soccer moms thinks about whom to vote for. Their rifles are, of course, unregistered. But what about the opinions on their web page? Alberta Chief…
Campaign launched urging activist groups to build ‘One Big Campaign’
A new campaign urging Canadian social activist groups to work together under one massive umbrella to take on the Harper regime and his right-wing supporters is being born! The Campaign…
Pentagon ups #F35 costs again
From one of the leading aviation publications in the U.S., Aviation Week, the latest on the F-35’s increasing costs sees Canada in its headline: “Canada Concerned As F-35 Cost Estimate…
New Progressive Bloggers affiliates
Please welcome Paulitical Satire and On Wrestling, Politics and Other Musings of the Mind’s Eye to Progressive Bloggers.
Coming to Canada: Prison industrial complex, punishment and profits
Last summer Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives demonstrated their tough stance on foreigners suspected of war crimes abroad. The suspects were rounded up, detained and deported. The sweep…
Un chat existentiel
Poor Henri. The indignities of daily existence! How he bears them with fortitude and a certain je ne sais quoi. (Including a human who can’t really speak French all that…
I really hope the Tori Stafford trial is over soon
So I can stop wincing at the sight of a news website. It’s the closest I’ve come to puking while reading a web page.
Venerable Lloyd’s of London – Think Twice Before Exploiting Arctic Resources
Lloyd’s of London foresees $100-billion of new exploration in the Arctic in the coming decade. That has prompted Lloyd’s to speak out about the prospect for catastrophic environmental damage from…
Down this road, no taxes for business
While getting refunds of every cent they pay, business people enthusiastically support you and I paying HST. They aim to relieve themselves of income taxes too. While working people, even…
When Ships Were Made of Oak, and Men Were Made of Iron
This is one of those silly “blast from the past” stories. While commenting on another blog I briefly revisited my younger years as a working journalist in Ottawa. Trudeau was…
TheSpec – Walkom: F-35s, robocalls and the erosion of Harper’s…
A great article by Thomas Walkom on the F-35 scandal and how the Conservatives have virtually no credibility to speak of.TheSpec – Walkom: F-35s, robocalls and the erosion of Harper’s….…
Surrogacy & Prostitution, or Neither
Paying to use a woman’s body for sex is legal in Canada, while paying to use a woman’s body to give birth isn’t. There is no law in this northern…