More From The Religiously Unhinged
Oh, he’s back at it again. The perpetually aggrieved and unhinged ‘Reverend’ Gordon Klingenschmitt is still grappling with that old demonic spirit of tyranny and persecution, as the following video…
September 2013
The G-20, Global Stagnation and the Option of Wage Led Growth
Here is the link to a short piece I wrote for Economy Lab. It borrows from and includes the link to an important paper co-authored by the PEF’s own Marc…
Really, John? Kerry Says "World Wants to Know If U.S. Can Make a Difference."
John, calm down. We know the U.S. can make a difference. We all know that. We know the U.S. makes a difference to just about anything that gets its attention.…
"Frackademia" By Law: Section 999 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Exposed
With the school year starting for many this week, it’s another year of academia for professors across the United States – and another year of “frackademia” for an increasingly large…
80-year-old Woman Tasered in Ontario
I must admit I didn't think that police in Otario could stoop any lower than the public execution of Sammy Yatim. For its senseless brutality stunned me. But then so…
Ms. Corbella Argues That Atheists Are Bad People
In her column in today’s Calgary Herald, Licia Corbella gets on her high horse about atheists. The title of her column is ridiculous enough: “Will Atheism Be Held To Account…
Nobody Talks. Leave No Witnesses. Harper Covers His Tracks.
Nothing says coverup in government than the total absence of the slightest paper trail. When the CBC’s Greg Weston went fishing for documents of the Senate expense scandal he came…
Wars and Refugee Crisis -Syria, Somalia…
Al Zaatri, Jordan (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) Hosts about 122,723 Syrian refugees. Almost 5,000 citizens a day on average are flowing out of Syria, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres…
Unifor: Canada’s Newest Union
I am still catching my breath from one of the wildest weeks in my life: all the events that culminated in the founding convention last weekend in Toronto of Unifor…
Economic study supports ‘buy local’ as Harper tries to ban it in EU trade deal
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Sometimes in the hurly burly of life in the late spring and summer months major issues go begging for your attention. We have been hearing about…
The New Attack on Unions
The latest issue of the York University e journal Just Labour is now available. In addition to three articles on youth and labour, it includes my paper “Up Against the…
In Syria a bombing campaign is the best option
I believe a bombing campaign with the aim to toppling the Assad regime, similar to the campaign in Libya, is justified. The primary reason is that allowing the civil war…
An Immutable Truth
This, from Howard Zinn: Recommend this Post
MobileSyrup: Verizon CEO says story about the company coming to Canada was "overblown"
We’ve always said it was a red herring used by Big Telecom to scare Canadians into handing them the future of cell phone service. We’ve worked with Canadians to develop…
MobileSyrup: Verizon CEO says story about the company coming to Canada was "overblown"
We’ve always said it was a red herring used by Big Telecom to scare Canadians into handing them the future of cell phone service. We’ve worked with Canadians to develop…
What is a councillor’s role?
A question was asked of me recently about the appropriateness of the Deputy Mayor being at a meeting last summer to discuss the possible purchase of the new recreational facility…
From my Quotes Cupboard – Russia
Mecklenburg was small and weak and needed a powerful protector; marriage to a Russian princess would bring the Tsar’s support. Knowing that the two daughters of Tsar Ivan V were…
Betting on Birthdays
I don’t know how many times we’ve nearly lost our Nicholas. Doctors told us in 2005 that he might have two months to live – a sleep study that year…