New column day
Here, on the general irrationality of the right-wing obsession with chaining public services and tax rates to population growth – and the particularly egregious application of that theory by the…
January 2013
Mulcair’s Meeting
Can you name them all? I couldn’t. Especially not the person shrouded by Selinger’s head. Good photography there.. A couple of days ago, Thomas Mulcair met with what I assume…
An Angry Spring
The Idle No More protests across the country yesterday were the opening salvo in what is shaping up to be an angry spring. Rest assured that there will be calls…
#skndpldr Roundup
The most significant news from the Saskatchewan NDP leadership campaign this week was the release of another month’s worth of financial reports. And the December numbers look to reinforce rather…
National Climate Assessment Delivers Dire Warning On Climate Threat
A draft version of the 2013 National Climate Assessment is making headlines this week, and not because it is so uplifting. According to the report, the effects of climate change…
The Star on the OLP leadership: Pupatello “smart, feisty,” Wynne “favourite of the left-wing downtown Toronto crowd”
A must-read, as they say. Sandra Pupatello (6 to 5): She surprised even her own campaign team by finishing first in last weekend’s election to pick delegates to the convention.…
Chasing Ice: The Largest Calving Event Ever Filmed
This film shows a massive iceberg calving event.
Chasing Ice: The Largest Calving Event Ever Filmed
This film shows a massive iceberg calving event.
Chasing Ice: The Largest Calving Event Ever Filmed
This film shows a massive iceberg calving event.
are we seeing the beginning of global people’s revolution?
“There’s something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear…” This week, I attended a talk put on by the International Socialists, featuring an organizer with OUR Walmart, by Skype…
Centennial Pool gets covered!
Not sure how much will get done today – it’s a cold, windy winter day. But yesterday, in more clement weather, six frame struts for the Sprung building were erected…
5521…Craziest Story Evah Is From ND`s Manti Te’o
Seriously. Cut and paste from The Associated Press via Notre Dame. This is insane in the membrane. NCAA football star Manti Te’o’s girlfriend’s death apparently a hoax Canada AM: Girlfriend…
Chasing Ice: The Largest Calving Event Ever Filmed
This film shows a massive iceberg calving event.
Which Federal Conservative MP Spoke At Illegal
…401 blockade. This one. Mind you, Scott Reid is still a back-bencher. The whole illegal protesting gig didn’t work out for him as well as for some.
5520…The End Of The World Is Nigh
And I don`t even know what nigh means.This is one of the signs of the imminent end of the planet. Gawker reports that “Backwards clothes pioneers Chris `Mac Daddy` Kelly…
Who Did This?
Canada’s busiest Highway 401 and the International Bridge at Johnstown Ontario to the USA were closed for 3 hours… Hint: Tim Hudak gave him a position in his shadow cabinet.
Canada can learn from Norway’s management of oil wealth: Study
by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Jan 17, 2013: OTTAWA—A new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives compares the Canada and Alberta experience to that of Norway,…
We can get there from here #nlpoli
People across the province are astounded that some students at Memorial University cannot correctly identify countries, continents, and oceans on a map of the world. Geographic illiteracy shocks people. Well,…
Why We Should Thank Idle No More
I was glad to see that Idle No More's Day of Action took the movement's message to Canadians.Loudly but peacefully. From downtown Toronto to Vancouver Island, protesters ramped up weeks…
Abortion rights group launches website to celebrate historic 1988 Supreme Court “Morgentaler Decision”
by Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada | Jan 15, 2013 In honour of the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s historic 1988 decision to overturn the nation’s criminal abortion…