Following Monday’s demonstration outside the former Kingston psychiatric hospital, Providence Care is now telling staff that the job cuts and bed closures taking place are not about funding? Really? Even…
With tar sands, fracking and mining all on the rise, there’s never been a more important time for a strong environmental movement in Canada. Surveying the landscape of organizations, one…
Chris Hedges rallies to the defence of black intellectual Cornel West and, in the process, issues a bill of indictment against Barack Obama for his relentless assault on America’s black…
I’m standing with Francis Grenier in downtown Montreal, just blocks away from the spot where his life took a drastic turn. On March 7, 2012, Grenier, a 23-year-old visual arts…
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It’s called the doctrine of Eminent Domain. It basically amounts to the right of government to expropriate private property and it usually requires the government pay market value compensation. Now…
Everyone is talking about Lakeridge Hospital’s brilliant response to the hateful Parti Quebecois “Charter.” The news stories – one of them is here – don’t tell you who came up…
Reblogged from Corey Robin: Political theorist Marshall Berman, who was my colleague at the CUNY Graduate Center, died yesterday morning. When I heard the news last night, my first thought…
This summer one of my cousins and I sat down for the first time in years and talked family. She’s started doing geneology and told me she’d come up with…
This whole Quebec Charter of Values is a bummer. It’s so bad it got me to resurrect a term from the 60s. Must lift spirits. I know, let’s see what…
The Quebec government plans to forbid the wearing of religious garb in government facilities. There will be time limited exceptions for religious hospitals or schools that elect to opt out.…
Is the United States poised to repeat the same mistakes in Syria that it made in Iraq after 1991? Chatham House, Associate Fellow, Nadim Shehadi, warns that is exactly what…
If cleanliness be next to godliness, is conscientiousness a workable alternative to Catholicism? Pope Francis (or Francesco as he refers to himself in the Italian papers) was asked whether God…
Most Vancouverites are familiar with Megaphone, a magazine sold on the city’s streets by low-income and homeless vendors. Its content is focused on raising awareness about a range of important…
Every cloud has a silver lining, according to John Milton. That may be a bit too optimistic for most of us but it is, believe it or not, true of…
The BC Liberals have the worst attendance record in the BC Legislature since 1976 – especially with this week’s decision to avoid a Fall sitting…again. If they were employees working…
When Obama was first campaigning, he often quoted Martin Luther King’s ringing words of the 1960s to end racial discrimination in the US. The words were “I have a dream…”…
Here are today’s news links: Bell challenges cellphone roaming, tower-sharing rules in court (CBC) Videotron rolls out 2-year contracts, “unlike its competitors” keeps monthly price plans the same (Mobile Syrup)…
The good news for the Bloc is that there’s now a bit more elbow room in the back of the caucus car: Maria Mourani, Member of Parliament for the federal…
Will Pauline Marois allow the headgear, in Quebec, in the following picture? OVERHEAD VIEW: Teachers gathered Wednesday in Bilbao, Spain, at the University of Deusto, a Spanish Jesuit university, for…
