Foods to eat in Québec
Québec is renown for its culinary specificity. In a recent edition, the National Geographic lists the top ten foods to eat in the province: Poutine Bagels in Montréal Tire sur…
2013
Foods to eat in Québec
Québec is renown for its culinary specificity. In a recent edition, the National Geographic lists the top ten foods to eat in the province: Poutine Bagels in Montréal Tire sur…
The next ten years
After yesterday, it’s pretty clear that the next 10 years of Ontario’s future will be determined by today. The question is clear, too. Do you select someone who can get…
White People are Just too Corrupt. . . . .
You know, I began to look into it and discovered, much to my surprise, that apparently economic malfeasance is quite common in this country. Have you heard about this? In…
The Same Story With A New Twist
In his book, Hegemony Or Survival, Noam Chomsky argued that George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq was merely the next step in an imperial grand strategy which was drawn up…
A new jail in Nunavut
Another jail opened in Nunavut last week. It is long overdue – the existing facility in Iqaluit, Baffin Correctional Centre is, as Justice Mahar of the Nunavut Court of Justice…
Yes to Capitalism, No to Greed
The political arena is strange. So much of the time it’s about “defining” the opposition. News flash – the left is not against capitalism. Greed is visceral. We all know…
Foods to eat in Québec
Québec is renown for its culinary specificity. In a recent edition, the National Geographic lists the top ten foods to eat in the province: Poutine Bagels in Montréal Tire sur…
it’s time we all starved the trolls: stop reading comments on mainstream news stories
Robert Fisk has a good piece in The Independent about the incivility (to put it mildly!) that is endemic in the comment sections of online news stories: “Anonymous trolls are…
Democracy ‘Satisfaction’ dropped 20%
Its been a while since I gave Samara the democracy measurement folks a plug but a recent visit to their web site encouraged me to have another look around and…
Absinthe Minded Olivia Munn
I watched the Cabin episode of New Girl (City in Canada, Hulu in the USA) with Olivia Munn drinking absinthe. My thought when I watched her jug some of the…
Idle No More and the Ugly Canadians
One of the many things the Idle No More movement has done is force many Canadians to stare at the face of the real Canada.And in the process take a…
In Paris, street art in solidarity with Idle No More (PHOTO)
More than five thousand #IdleNoMore protesters gathered in Ottawa Friday as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and First Nations leaders held a closed-door meeting. Meanwhile, in Paris, street art in solidarity…
Official statement from Aaron Swartz’s family and partner
The official statement from the family and partner of Aaron Swartz, the Reddit co-founder, Internet activist , programmer and extraordinary hacker, who committed suicide Friday night: Our beloved brother, son,…
Quebec students support Idle No More, the ‘Native Spring’ of 2013
by L’Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (ASSÉ) | Jan 11, 2013 L’Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (ASSÉ), the Quebec student movement which prosecuted the hugely successful 2012 Quebec…
Conflict of interest: Not us!
Does government advertising affect the way media reports on political events? Maybe no, or not much, if the proportion of government advertising, compared to the total, is minor. However, when…
Lincoln
Saw it tonight. Some days, surveying the landscape, it’s hard to believe a leader as extraordinary as him actually existed.