Required Reading:Don’t Let Anyone Run on Your Left
Great opinion piece in the Vancouver Sun (the Vancouver Sun!!!) that compares the recent BC election and the New York City Democratic primary which saw the front runner crumble before…
October 2013
Energy East: the unrelenting sales pitch.
Are you as weary as everyone else with the heavy-handed TransCanada Pipelines television commercials? All the company wants to do is convert its main gas pipeline to a heated, high…
Metro News: Gary McHale agrees that neo-Nazis attend his rallies?
Quote: “…He did not dispute Kinsella’s claims that known neo-Nazi’s attended his rallies… “I don’t know who attends my rallies,” he said… McHale will be representing himself in court, as…
Closure of Muslim Free School highlights folly of government policy
A bit of welcome news came today that British government inspectors have forced the temporary closure of an Islamic free school over “health and safety issues.” The school promises to…
Stephen Harper’s Truly Desperate Cabinet Meeting
Well they may have padlocked Parliament, but I see the new/nouveau Con cabinet still managed to hold a top-secret meeting.Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his top Cabinet ministers hunkered down…
Jerome leaves at last #nlpoli
For anyone even halfway clued in to local politics, the rumours have been thick for months that Jerome Kennedy was about to bail from provincial politics. Now it seems the…
Of business, by business, for business
British Columbia’s revenue from natural resources totalled $4 billion in fiscal year 2001. The Bank of Canada inflation calculator shows the equivalent in current dollars is $5 billion. Natural resource…
Elizabeth Warren Speaks Out Against the Bizarre Shutdown of the US Government
Give a listen to this speech by one of the classiest and most skilled politicians anywhere these days. Senator Elizabeth Warren nails it.
Video: Human Rights – The Chilean Experience
Winnipeg, September 28, 2013 – In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the coup d’etat against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende, Winnipeg’s Chilean community held numerous educational and…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats hanging on.
Diane Francis is an imbecile and a traitor. The Chicago-born…
Diane Francis is an imbecile and a traitor. The Chicago-born conservative immigrant to Canada should be deported to her homeland, as should all foreign-born right-wing elitists who want to give…
On the occasion of the website re-launch
So today marked the finale of a two year campaign to re-design, re-engineer and re-everything the flagship website where I work. And after the most excruciating day of bickering about…
Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone at the 2013 Subversive Festival in Zagreb: "Untold History of the U.S."
Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone took part in a roundtable discussion at the sixth annual Subversive Festival in Zagreb earlier in the year – a discussion well worth revisiting. It’s…
US Shutdown: You’ve Got to Laugh if You’re Not Going to Cry
The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz has been posting daily about the ridiculousness of the tragedy unfolding South of the Border. What about this: “In a special Sunday radio address, House…
Footwork Closing
Footwork Closing … end of an era! Footwork is one of the best venues for electronic music in Toronto. When I heard that they announced their closing I got freaked…
Autism Speaks Betrays Children, Adults With Severe Autism Disorders: Autism Speaks Blogger Calls Autism A Blessing
Since my 17 year old son was diagnosed with autistic disorder and profound developmental delays (and more recently, like many who share those conditions, with epileptic seizures) little has been…
Troubled Waters: New video investigates northeast BC fracking
Watch this new 5-min video documenting some of the impacts of shale gas fracking in northeast BC. Chief Roland Wilson of West Moberly First Nations describes his community’s concerns regarding…