Richard Hughes-Political Blogger US, Canada and a number of other western governments throughout the western world have been fidgety and downright freaked about insider government snoops Julian Assange, Edward Snowden…
“Reprehensible.” That’s how the Federal Court of Canada describe big telecom company Bell’s treatment of this former customer, including their lacklustre response after violating his privacy. We need to rein…
Lou Reed passed away last Sunday at the age of 71. Here are a few tunes to remember him by. This performance of Dirty Boulevard is taken from an episode…
I have had the incredible good luck of meeting an interesting diversity of Montrealers since I started this blog in 2005 and there is no way I could discuss that…
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. That children’s nursery rhyme…
Quebec plans to spend more than a half-billion dollars on a green transportation plan over the next three years. Premier Pauline Marois says the plan includes up to $8,000 in…
CONSIDER the following two statistics together. Research into the peer-reviewed science of climate change found that between 1991 and 2011, 97 per cent of studies agreed that climate change is…
Shifty Steve Harper has been busy lately trying to write off his former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, as a rogue. Harper has accused Wright of deception in the under…
The latest interesting twist in the Senate’s proceedings with respect to suspensions is the Conservative majority’s strategic shift to ‘Government Business’. Originally, Senator Carignan had placed three motions on the…
I have seen expressions of dismay by many after the latest Ford fiasco that express the notion that the man retains his popularity despite all his foibles, violations of ethics…
Activist and art professor Max Haiven recently delivered a TED talk at TEDxNovaScotia titled “>The Debt of Creativity, in which he elaborates on the ideas he discussed in his essay…
An article in The Atlantic speaks to the growing death-fetish that is gripping more and more youth. It is a bad omen for the state of modern industrial civilization as…
This post continues from my previous post about on the Putney Debates; a debate that took place between Cromwell and the Army Grandees on the one hand, and the representatives…
A month after over 865,200 gallons of oil spilled from Tesoro Logistics’ 6-inch pipeline near Tioga, North Dakota, the cause of the leak is still largely unknown to anyone but…
Waiting impatiently all morning and now part of the afternoon, for the paper copies of the new cat book to arrive. Well, here it is. 20 altogether. Only 20 in…
Court documents prepared by RCMP investigators state that Harper Senate appointee, Pam Wallin, committed fraud and breach of trust in connection with her Senate expense claims. Senator Pamela Wallin used…
Stephen Harper doesn’t give the impression that he’s in dire straits but then again, when you’re surrounded by jackals of your own making, it’s a bad idea to let them…
And there is singing and dancing chez les Soderstrom! Lee, who hadn’t seen the cover, says, somewhat hopefully, that maybe it will be considered pornographic and will sell well. I…
At this point, I really don’t give a damn if Toronto Mayor Rob Ford did drugs. If he did it certainly hasn’t impaired his performance as a politician. What I…
