Obama’s Grand Betrayal of Ordinary America
Barack Obama’s carefully nurtured image as a man of the people has been blown to shreds. Rob Urie, writing for CounterPunch, captures the event in one paragraph: With Barack Obama…
April 2013
Canada Revenue Agency offers deal to CBC to reveal tax cheats by Steve Ladurantaye
Columnist says the Canada Revenue Agency wants to cut a deal with the CBC that would allow the broadcaster to protect its secret sources, but also rat out tax cheats…
Yeah, yeah…
… I KNOW that the only poll that matters is the one held on E Day, but for Libs like me, this is encouraging: The latest Nanos tracking numbers reveal…
Do We Really Want to Save a Place for Our Grandkids? It Sure Doesn’t Look That Way.
It’s claimed by those who study such things that civilizations that collapse do so suddenly and while they’re at their peak. In a way the process resembles a balloon bursting.…
Are Canadian investors headed for a carbon cliff?
An oped based on my and Brock Ellis’ recent report, Canada’s Carbon Liabilities, was published in iPolitics (alas, behind a pay wall): Canada’s economic development model is on a collision…
In case you thought it couldn’t get more ridiculous
Your Minister of Natural Resources, ladies and gentlemen: “I think that people aren’t as worried as they were before about global warming of two degrees,” Oliver said in an editorial…
Rapists aren’t just strangers lurking in dark alleyways
Something to think about: In a survey of male college students: · 35% anonymously admitted that, under certain circumstances, they would commit rape if they believed they could get away…
April 12: Words, words, words….
Oh, for the days of Winston Churchill, a politician who knew what words meant, and who used them with their correct meanings. For today’s politicians, words are just fuzzy things…
Nanos Research Poll: 35.4% Liberal, 31.3% Con, 23.6% NDP
On the flip side of today’s earlier Abacus poll, a company known to give the Conservatives and NDP something of a boost, we have Nanos Research, known to sometimes give…
Next, Kansas Republicans Plan To Outlaw Sunshine
* No matter how hard the fossil fools try to stuff the renewable energy genie back into the bottle (click here to read more about Kansas’s latest back-the-past bill), the…
Anon Makes Its Case
…and they have handed the evidence over to the police. One day the press will catch up on this one.
CD and Feminism: Chronicle of a Movement Defining Itself
Over its 50 years, Canadian Dimension featured some of Canada’s most well-known and thought provoking feminists, activists and scholars, the majority of whom straddled the line between academia and activism.…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, April 12, 2013
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, April 12, 2013: Toronto’s mayor: Still standing | The Economist Three Reasons Why the LPP Will Replace…
And Now, A Word About Kellie Leitch From The Salamander
The question of personal integrity is one that is very near and dear to my heart. Since literature at its best is a reflection of some of the deepest truths…
Stuart Mackinnon is the Green Party of BC candidate for Vancouver Fraserview
For Immediate Release 12 April 2013 Vancouver – The Green Party of BC is pleased to announce that Stuart Mackinnon will represent the party in Vancouver Fraserview in the May…
COINTELPRO Murders (Intervention by Geronimo ji Jaga)
The following is Geronimo ji Jaga’s intervention at a September 14, 2000 forum that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) hosted during the Congressional Black Caucus’s legislative weekend in Washington, DC. It…
Akaash Maharaj: Margaret Thatcher’s Verdict on the Liberal Party of Canada
My article in the Globe and Mail: My one conversation with Margaret Thatcher about the Liberal Party of Canada began with a chill in the air, and ended with our…
Temporary Foreign Worker Scandal: RBC Issues “Open Letter To Canadians”
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: According to a list recently obtained by the Alberta Federation of Labour, the Royal Bank of Canada, (RBC) is one the thousands of…
#mtlqc13 – Preamble Ramble
Over the past few days, I’ve highlighted a few policy resolutions I’d like to see promoted and discussed at the NDP’s federal convention this weekend in Montreal. But I’ll take…