Leaders say dumb things. But do their Taliban-esque followers always have to cheer every idiocy? Apparently. Conservative leader Stephen Harper insisted in June that his former chief of staff “acted…
McKenna – My sacrificial lamb. Journalist Barrie McKenna, writing in the main hyped-up article in the Globe’s Focus section on November 9.13, talks about how the gap in income between…
Australia’s Colongra gas-powered electrical plant – BC LNG would be powered by carbon-intensive plants like this one VICTORIA – Like the underground shale gas that Premier Christy Clark says will…
We’ve always suspected it, but it’s one of those ideas like “Yasser Arafat was poisoned“–it seems kind of crackpot when you say it even though we know there’s a track…
Ponzi Austerity: A Definition And An Example – Social Europe Journal. For a while now I have been arguing that Europe’s policies for reducing the public debts of fiscally stressed…
BECANCOUR, Que. – The Quebec government is helping to bankroll a $130-million project by RER Hydro, Hydro-Quebec and Boeing to generate clean energy on the St. Lawrence River, in what…
World needs peace and not wars.
With another round of international climate negotiations opening this week in Warsaw, Poland, and a new poll finding Canadians wanting leadership on the issue, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his…
Canada first observed Remembrance Day on November 11th, 1919, to commemorate the armistice that had ended WWI one year earlier and to remember those in the military who had given…
Before any other kids sign up for the Canadian forces, I hope they (and their parents) realize that their service is no longer honoured by the Harper Cons. If they…
Yes, I know that we are not to forget the Great War and the other ones because we don’t want to repeat earlier mistakes. That at least is the official…
In reading the following article from Global Research: The “Scandalization” of Canadian Politics: The Hard Truths of Neoliberal Conservatism, I found myself agreeing with the author on some points, but…
I’d like to invite anyone who is the region of London, Ontario (or all you readers with some cash or frequent flyer points to burn), to come to a reading…
First, let’s take a look at some, kind of important stories, that the Irving press didn’t have room for. It looks as though the peace talks with Iran are wrecked.…
Remembrance Day has never been about glorifying war. People who think that are forgetting the symbolism. Why do we hold a minute’s silence on the 11th month of the 11th…
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Nick Pearce offers an interesting discussion of conception of equality that should be placed at the core of social-democratic thinking – with one…
On Remembrance Day let’s not celebrate wars but think of those who lost their lives. Let’s not think of producing more deadly weapons of mass destruction but let’s think of…
Something, as the article notes, that Starbucks did years ago. And so Tim Hortons slowly adopts the manner of the gay, city coffee. Because when I was a lad no…
Today I remember my father, James Edward Thomson, who fought in Europe with the Royal Montreal Regiment and won an award for bravery from King George and was mentioned in…
