Reblogged from Real-World Economics Review Blog: from Maria Alejandra Madi and the WEA Pedagogy Blog In her new book, Kari Polanyi Levitt considers the insights of her father Karl Polanyi’s…
TweetTo the sound of muted fanfare, the Alberta Liberal Party is holding its annual policy convention tomorrow in Calgary. Attempting to revive a faded brand, the Liberals plan to tackle…
Summer in Canada is filled with community festivals, parades, farmers markets and street parties. Liberal riding associations across the country will be setting up booths, hanging banners and handing out…
The look on Page’s face says it all.
“The Panel says we are hurtling toward the day when climate change could be irreversible with catastrophic consequences, they say. This group is now 95% sure that humans are responsible,…
My writing for DeSmog, and other blogs, has focused on the problems related to climate change. Today, I write about solutions. It’s important to keep in mind that the fossil…
As the Robert Reich film, Inequality for All, hits theatres this weekend, Jordan Brennan and Jim Stanford write that what has happened in the United States has also happened in…
What did we say the other day about half measures by governments that have no idea where they are going? Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne seems to have fallen into that…
Jimmy Kimmel’s humorous, if cynical, take on U.S. politics:
Reblogged from Revolting Europe: Portugal is to go to the polls Sunday in what will represent a test for the brutal policies of austerity of the ruling right-wing coalition led…
The Autism Action Network reports, in It started: DSM5 used to revoke autism diagnosis, that the revoking of autism diagnoses under the DSM5 regime and the resulting denial of services…
Today, September 28, women all over the world are taking action to demand the right to accessible, safe, and legal abortion. Women and our allies in more than 50 countries…
You couldn't ask for a scarier example of what Stephen Harper is doing to Canada, and what he is planning to do to the planet, than seeing how him and…
Three stewards a-waiting … The latest IPSOS-Reid poll shows that the Harper new Tories maintain their lead amongst voters when it comes to the critical issue of who is the…
A recent Tariq Ali article in Guernica – What is a Revolution – challenges misconceptions about the popular uprisings in the Middle East that some pundits characterise as the Arab…
An amazing admission by Liberal strategist David Herle at the 8:03 mark of this CBC panel discussion … the Gun Registry was introduced as a calculated wedge issue … (Apologies…
Bran Van 3000 – Astounded
This is Davy Knowles at a music festival in Colorado a couple of years back covering Cream’s version of Outside Woman Blues. The Delta Saints began playing together as college…
R. v. Jolivet, 1 S.C.R. 751 holds: 28 One must also be precise about the exact nature of the “adverse inference” sought to be drawn. In J. Sopinka, S. N.…
