On unbalanced trade
When it comes to trying to justify perpetually-increasing restrictions on democratic governance in the guise of “free trade” agreements, advocates present two polar opposite views as to what such agreements…
March 2013
The 100 Year Starship
Open the pod bay door, HAL. What would it take to develop the capability to send humans to another star system? That is the ambitious challenge taken up by the…
Free the Canadian Archivist!
From a statement by the Canadian Library Association: (Ottawa, March 22, 2013) – The Canadian Library Association urges Library and Archives Canada to revisit its Code of Conduct in order…
i am a master of information
The degree will not be official until May, but I’ve just completed my very last school assignment. This means… I. AM. DONE. Done!!!!! My apologies to everyone who already saw…
Dennis Kucinich: US An ‘Orwellian State’
Some refreshing honesty from an American politician – well-worth watching: H/t Disinformation Recommend this Post
An early April Fool’s Day prank?
Has up been declared down and black become white? How did this Toronto Star editorial end up in the Toronto Sun? But it would be foolish to pretend the credibility…
Federal Budget 2013 missed opportunity for the economy and services: PSAC
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: The Harper Conservatives’ 2013 federal budget is a ”missed opportunity for the economy and services”, says the Public Service Alliance of Canada. PSAC…
Slightly Aged Column Day
Here, on how Brad Wall’s willingness to see the long form census scrapped suggests that his government’s push toward mandatory annual standardized tests for all students can’t be explained by…
Great line of the day
d r i f t g l a s s writes about the buildup in the United States to the Iraq War, and flags one aspect I had not understood…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Alan Feuer writes about New York City’s brilliant use of “big data” to connect the dots in making public policy. And the…
Sun News gives CRTC an opportunity to end anachronistic rules by Gwyn Morgan
Columnist says to allow politics or ideology to play a part in the CRTC’s decision regarding the Sun News Network application for mandatory carriage would be a clear violation of…
Talking Nonsense Solves No Problems: Reply to an Open Response Letter Allegedly Written by the Amazons-August Collective and NAPLA to the New Afrikan Black Panther Party
The following is an essay Kevin “Rashid” Johnson just sent me and asked me to post. -k I recently received an “open letter” purporting to be from the Amazons-August 3rd…
If We Only Had a Free Press in Canada
Imagine if Canada had journalists like BBC’s Eddie Mair here seen grilling London mayor Boris Johnson. Imagine if someone in Canada had the courage to sit down with Sideshow Steve…
March 24:Understanding the news without reading it…
Some forty years ago (my, I’m getting old) a very prominent Canadian politician to me he never read the newspapers His friends assured me that was the truth. I still…
Waging Class War is One Thing, Winning It Before the Other Side Knows About It is Everything
Bad news for working class America, white and blue collar – the class war they never really understood had been waged against them for the past three decades is over…
Against the Current by Raju Mudhar
Columnist says there has been difficulty in getting the word out about streaming services, how to use them and changing music lovers’ habits.
Conservative Pension Behavioural Utopianism
Conservatives like to portray themselves as hard-bitten “realists” who look objectively at the world as it really is and shake their heads at silly liberals with our rose coloured glasses.…
Marking Up the Alberta Government’s $30,000 Keystone XL Ad
This is a guest post by Heather Libby. If you’re a regular reader of the Sunday New York Times, you might have noticed a half-page ad in the A section…
5773…MichaelBlissSaysLiberalismDead In Canada
Right there in the middle of the smarty pants section of The Ottawa Citizen yesterday. If Michael Bliss says it, it must be. Hope there is good food at the…