Edmonton Election Substance and Style #1
TweetWith Edmonton’s election campaign in full-swing, it is easy for this political watcher to miss a moment or campaign announcement over the course of a week. At the beginning or…
September 2013
Deutsche Welle Living Planet 2013 Arctic Diary
This week, Deutsche Welle Living Planet broadcast the first of my audio diaries from the Students on Ice 2013 Arctic Expedition. This first audio postcard captures the reflections of Canadian…
Is Montreal an Object Lesson for Canada?
Montreal’s atrophied infrastructure should stand as an object lesson on political responsibility for our federal government and every provincial and municipal government from coast to coast to coast. To comprehend…
Dear TPGA Autism Experts: Thanks For Advising Us to Love Our Autistic Son! If Only We Had Known Sooner!
During recent weeks the TPGA “autism experts”, have done a great favor to children, like my son, who suffer from severe autism disorders. The TPGA autism wizards told parents like…
"Shadows Of Glass" – Toronto’s Condo Skyline …
A great short film by Canadian film maker and progressive Mikailus. Written, Produced, Directed, Photographed, Edited by MIKAILUSNarrated by JESSICA BINSTOCKMusic by LEE ROSEVERE “Prologue”Lab: NIAGARA CUSTOM LABSTransfer: FRAME DISCREETShot…
Seniors Home In Premier Brad Wall’s Constituency Plagued By Bed Bugs
Saskatchewan’s Potash and Oil industries are booming. Billions in profits are rolling in to them steadily. Yet, services to the people of Saskatchewan – who actually own the natural resources…
Climate Change will hit Canada harder: international report
OTTAWA – The latest international report on climate change confirms that global warming is amplified in Canada and the trend is going to continue, the David Suzuki Foundation said Monday.…
In Tuesday’s Sun: McGuinty, ten years later
Ten years ago, the world was an entirely different place, with some political wins and some political losses. In January, 2003, Jack Layton succeeded Alexa McDonough to become leader of…
Tea Party Support Dwindles to Near-Record Low
http://www.gallup.com/poll/164648/tea-party-support-dwindles-near-record-low.aspx Filed under: conservatism Tagged: Conservatism, far-right, US Politics
We are taking your voice to decision makers
On July 24, 2013, the Our Fair Deal Coalition launched its Internet Voice tool at OpenMedia.org/DigitalFuture, and asked citizens in countries affected by the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to speak out…
Help Saudi women get behind the wheel—sign the petition
In an apparent attempt to demonstrate that there is no limit to the idiocy of Saudi Arabian misogyny, a Saudi cleric has explained why women should not be allowed to…
The deeper reasons for the “war on drugs”
There is a deeper reason for the war on drugs, which is the central reason for the policy, even outweighing profits from private prisons and seizure of property by law…
Kevin Page at Journalism School and #UofR
Former Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page, now a professor at the UofO, was a guest at the UofR’s J-School, then CCPA sponsored lecture on Thursday night. I live-tweeted the events,…
Inquistr: TPP discussion to censor the Internet underway
We’ve won before by stopping legislation aimed at restricting Internet access – and as more and more people speak out against the ultra-secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership’s (TPP) Internet Censorship plan, we…
If Our Premiers Only Had the Courage of Our First Nations
Murray Dobbins weighs in on our prime minister’s obvious contempt for democracy. Investment is always portrayed as a good thing, period. It creates jobs, increases tax revenues, grows the economy.…
Oil Blights Louisiana’s Coast as Second Phase of BP Oil Spill Trial Begins
The toxic mess left in the wake of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster continues to negatively impact Gulf Coast ecosystems as the second phase of the BP trial begins…
50 Years: Has Anything Changed?
I remember that day, in 1963. I was in high school. Penmanship class, after lunch. I think it was the last year for penmanship in Ontario high school, but even…
South Korea Pulls Lockheed’s Fat Out of The Fire, But What Does It Truly Say?
Some last-minute arm twisting persuaded the South Korea government to overturn the decision to buy modified Boeing F-15 Stealth Eagles in favour of Lockheed’s overdue, overpriced and under-performing F-35. But…
“Most young Canadians I talk to are going to spend most of their lives out of the country.”
Dear former Liberal comrades, there’s your problem. You’re so profoundly skewed that you anointed a guy like Count Michael Ignatieff your leader. A guy who travels in circles where ‘most…