Former law professor and Senator Elizabeth Warren isn’t pulling any punches when she speaks of America’s highest court: Look at the increasing corporate capture of the federal courts. According to…
Adrian Dix may be mulling stepping down as BC NDP leader (photo: Jonathan Hayward/CP) Read this story from CBC on the BC NDP’s upcoming caucus meeting to discuss the future…
Conservative Party lawyer directed robocall questions during investigation: documentsOTTAWA – The Conservative Party lawyer who attended interviews related to the May 2011 robocalls investigation at times spoke for witnesses and…
R. v. Yigzaw, 2013 ONCA 547: In R. v. Jack, 2013 ONCA 80, 294 C.C.C. (3d) 163, at paras. 12-17, Epstein J.A. provides a useful summary of the applicable legal…
Read this Sept. 11 story from The Vancouver Sun, confirming what The Common Sense Canadian has been predicting for years: massive rate hikes for BC Hydro customers due to the…
And he does it in his inimitable way by offering his ‘insights’ on Islam and the consequences of godlessness: Recommend this Post
Just what is Dilbit anyway? Well it’s bitumen together with high-sulfur petcoke mixed with a light liquid diluent and piped to refineries in distant lands. Now, if you had put…
There were reports this morning that BC Hydro would be raising its rates by up to 26% to meet its revenue targets for the coming year. Why? Because the BC…
The Making of Global Capitalism A groundbreaking account of America’s role in global capitalism By Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has granted the first ever LNG export permit license to Dominion Resources, Inc. to export gas obtained from the controversial hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) process…
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown By Philip Mirowski After the financial apocalypse, neoliberalism rose from the dead—stronger than ever At the…
It’s official. The Prince of Darkness has prorogued Parliament until October 15th. Stevie obviously wants to buy a little time, probably to come up with something that will shift the…
… before running for office. If you did, then this silly situation wouldn’t happen. Liberal Toronto Centre by-election candidate Diana Burke, who I’m sure is a fine candidate for office…
In addressing a recent convention of the AFL-CIO, outspoken U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, about whom I have posted several times, offered some stirring words. Although directed to an American audience,…
Consider this: an appointment with a doctor is similar to an important business meeting. The better prepared you are, the more profitable the results of the meeting will be. On…
Here’a the link to info about the demonstration. As one of the people say they’re going, one woman asks if she should wear a hijab, a kippa, or go as…
From the presumptive winner to fifth-place finisher with just 5% of the primary vote, Anthony Weiner’s political career is over. He’s just another old perv who can’t stop sexting young…
Children in war-torn Syria. I am not in favour of American strikes as it will simply kill more civilians and may solve nothing. But the world, especially U.S. and Russia,…
