This story has been churning for a week now. The CJPME disinvite tells it succinctly enough. For me the most important bit is: May had accepted CJPME’s invitation to speak…
Co-authored by David Christopher Today, our hard-won new cell phone customer protection rules go into effect for all new cell phone contracts/sales. The new rules, which were announced by the…
The same, blatantly corporatist US Supreme Court that vested corporations with political rights is expected to next give them religious freedoms. Corporations, of course, worship only the God of Profit…
Where would America’s minimum wage be had it kept pace with the spiralling income increases enjoyed by the top 1%? Imagine what that would mean to McDonald’s and Walmart workers.…
Faisal and Azeem, getting it done! Platitudes and paternalism aside, the 21st century actually does belong to the young. And not that they’re OUR future, like an extension of us,…
Fish Lake, near the proposed “New Prosperity” Mine in BC VANCOUVER – Taseko Mines Ltd. (TSX:TKO) has formally requested a judicial review of a critical environmental assessment for the proposed…
The two emerging economic superpowers, China and India, are heading for the planets. China has launched a robotic lander, the “Jade Rabbit”, intended to prowl the surface of the moon,…
Here’s the thing. I have eliminated nearly all sugar from my diet for the past three months. This is not easy to do. It’s not like just giving up soda…
A game based on the story Half the Sky puts players into a perspective usually different than their own: a young girl in the developing world. It teaches young gamers…
This is a giggle. Frank magazine has hired underemployed senator Patrick Brazeau as a freelance reporter. A magazine representative tweeted that they’ve filled out an application for Brazeau to receive…
Internet speeds in Canada leave a lot to be desired. That’s one of the reasons why Canadians have been calling for big telecom gatekeepers to be reined in so that…
Anyone who thinks that democracy is not under attack in Canada and elsewhere is, frankly, delusional. Anyone who thinks that we’re not under attack by corporatism and its political allies…
Reblogged from Contentious Politics in an Age of Austerity: Cristina Flesher Fominaya During the Global Justice Movement the constant refrain in Madrid’s movement network was how to break out of…
Reblogged from Shadows of Tender Fury: Mark Bergfeld has penned an insightful review of “Marxism and Social Movements” (Brill, 2013) in the latest issue of Oxford Left Review. The text…
BC Energy Minister Bill Bennett How do you know when a politician’s lying? When you see his/her lips move. Bill Bennett, the BC Hydro point man in the government, tells…
Foreign correspondent as cartoonist: the marriage has traced a slow path inward from the margins, with Joe Sacco along for the whole of the ride. And make no mistake: his…
I own all but a couple. You?
Prime Minister Harper once announced that the greatest threat to global security was terrorism. That was nonsense of course—every year, malaria kills approximately 660,000 people, mostly children, and AIDS 1,700,000…
The Great Lakes, drinking water source for over 40 million North Americans, could be the next target on tar sands marketers’ bullseye according to a major new report out by…
Featuring a wealth of prominent radical and critical race theorists, this collection of essays takes aim at one of Canada’s nationalistic sacred cows: our official multiculturalism policy. Taking racial categories…
