Climate Change, British Columbia Style
Giant Sunfish or ‘Mola’ British Columbians don’t need to be persuaded that climate change is real and its impacts are coming on hard and fast. The evidence is inescapable: changes…
August 2013
Canadian blogger Ben Klass pens an excellent response to Bell Canada CEO’s open letter
Canadian blogger Ben Klass has something to say about Bell Canada’s expensive PR campaign – something pretty awesome. You’ll want to read this in full. Thank you to Kaiwan Munshi,…
Quebec Has Gone Mad!
This story is either true or it should be.
Vancouver Island: A New Provincial Idea…
Vancouver Island To Be A Province If Separatists Get Their Way The Huffington Post Canada | Posted: 08/06/2013 2:43 pm EDT http://viprovince.ca/ I have often spoken and written about Vancouver…
Informant
In early 2009 the anarchist movement in Austin was shocked to learn that Brandon Darby was an FBI informant who had helped entrap David McKay and Bradley Crowder, two young…
Linda McQuaig for Toronto Centre
For the “You Read It Here First” file, I wrote on Friday: Toronto Centre needs a candidate with a track record of advancing more substantive and more progressive positions on…
TransCanada’s Energy East oil pipeline will face fierce opposition: Council of Canadians
The Council of Canadians announces a national campaign to stop TransCanada’s proposed $12 billion Energy East pipeline, which would ship Alberta‘s dirty tar sands oil to Canada’s East Coast. The…
Uffizzi three
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Lessons Learned From Totalitarianism
Reflecting upon a recent visit to Berlin, Toronto Star columnist Edward Greenspon had this to say: I was particularly struck by the lessons to be drawn from 1933 and 1934,…
Should There Be No Sport?
There is much to criticize about the world of professional sport: its virulent sexism, racism and homophobia, its role in the gentrification of cities, and its ties to corporations involved…
6309…Rob Ford’s Friends Keeping Dying
Or getting arrested. Or shot. Or both. From thegridto.com comes these words: “Anyhow, forget the video for at least a moment. Think about the photograph. In the picture above, there…
Hail Storm in Nova Scotia
Weather in the Maritimes has been very freakish so far. Thunder storms and heavy rain have been quite frequent. More recently hail storm in Nova Scotia. There was a warning…
The NHL and the New Canadian Militarism
There was a time when the idea of military pomp at a Canadian sporting event would have seemed absurdly out of place — that was an American thing. Oh, how…
Blogging, Democracy and Revolution
I came across this well-written piece on the role of social media in social change, written by Jesse McLaren. I've often thought that the role of new media, social media…
Blogging, Democracy and Revolution
I came across this well-written piece on the role of social media in social change, written by Jesse McLaren. I’ve often thought that the role of new media, social media…
Blogging, Democracy and Revolution
I came across this well-written piece on the role of social media in social change, written by Jesse McLaren. I've often thought that the role of new media, social media…
Blogging, Democracy and Revolution
I came across this well-written piece on the role of social media in social change, written by Jesse McLaren. I’ve often thought that the role of new media, social media…
From the Empire
As long as there have been organized sports in the United States, they have walked hand-in-hand with empire. From the beginning, the message was that men should be men, girls…
Target loves me
So we go to the Target at Santa Monica and La Brea. While there, my daughter calls me. I always stop what I’m doing when my kids call. So the…
The First Loser
A few summers ago,walking down Corydon Avenue in Winnipeg, I found myself reading a political message blazoned on the T-shirt of a young woman just ahead of me. “Second place…