The CBC’s Right Wing Personalities Have No Counterparts
For all of the various whining that the CBC is “statist” and left wing biased, I ask, where are the left wing CBC counterparts to these gems: Rex Murphy, seen…
2013
We Are All To Blame
Here is a letter from today’s Star that puts responsibility for the proliferating problem of deceitful, inept, corrupt and demagogic political leaders where it belongs: on all of our shoulders:…
Information is Power
The senate expense investigation and who knew what along with the PMs efforts to rid himself of these now disgraced conservative senators that he appointed has all but eliminated other…
More on wooing Toronto-Centre.
How about giving your leader some help here Chrystia Freeland? As Liberal Candidate for the November 25 by-election in Toronto-Centre, you should not leave all the heavy lifting to Liberal…
Great Autism News: 15 Year Old Boy With Autism And Intellectual Disability Found Safe
As the father of a 17 year old young man with severe autism, intellectual disability and epileptic seizures I am very happy to read that 15 year old autistic boy…
The Senate Scandal: How to hold the Prime Minister to account in Question Period
Thomas Mulcair in Question Period The leader of the NDP has done Canadians, and Canadian democracy, a service through his dogged, skillful, meticulous and highly professional questions posed to the…
Waltzing Matilda-Lest We Forget
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger It seems that we see and hear music and films of the first and second world wars such as this moving testimony. Not so much anymore. Prime…
Rob Ford’s Other Criminal War on Toronto
Imagine you're in the back of an ambulance in Toronto. You're desperately trying to keep a person alive until you can get him or her to a hospital. The lights…
Why not a McQuaig vs. Mulcair debate on natural resource development?
As I predicted back in September, the Mulcair NDP has wasted no time in demonstrating that the “Love is better than anger” NDP is long gone, as Mulcair candidates in…
I think I have to do this
There’s a way you can turn an iPhone into a digital microscope. With $10 worth of stuff.
Defending the White Poppy. . . .
Unlike the writers at the Huffington Post, I don’t believe that you can “win” debates with simplistic aphorisms issued on Twitter. And unlike Brett Wilson, I don’t believe that simply…
What is Anarchism: An Introduction
WHAT IS ANARCHISM: AN INTRODUCTION By Donald Rooum, Freedom Press, London 1993 ISBN 0 900384 66 2 It has been many years since I have read a non-historical introduction to…
What is Anarchism: An Introduction
WHAT IS ANARCHISM: AN INTRODUCTION By Donald Rooum, Freedom Press, London 1993 ISBN 0 900384 66 2 It has been many years since I have read a non-historical introduction to…
What is Anarchism: An Introduction
WHAT IS ANARCHISM: AN INTRODUCTION By Donald Rooum, Freedom Press, London 1993 ISBN 0 900384 66 2 It has been many years since I have read a non-historical introduction to…
Time to take God out of the Interrogation Room
R. v. Oickle, 2000 SCC 38 holds that police may properly offer spiritual inducements to suspects as part of interrogation. As a result it is common for police to tell…
What is Anarchism: An Introduction
WHAT IS ANARCHISM: AN INTRODUCTION By Donald Rooum, Freedom Press, London 1993 ISBN 0 900384 66 2 It has been many years since I have read a non-historical introduction to…
In Sunday’s Sun: Office of the Primely Insane
Langevin Block is a big, old government building, squatting at the corner of Elgin and Wellington streets in Ottawa. If you’ve been to Ottawa, you’ve probably seen it. Historically, Langevin…
The bobble heads at city hall
Apparently there will be one thousand of these at the Toronto city hall next week. The Mayor’s Office is selling them as part of it’s united way campaign. With the…
Pauline Marois, La Charte des Valeurs explained…in plain English
Quebec Premier Pauline Marois (Francis Vachon/CP) On November 7, the Parti Québécois government at long last introduced a Bill on the La Charte des valeurs (Charter of values) to the…
Bread, Madness and Christianity
The witch craze of Europe is a popular, albeit often misrepresented, part of our collective history. Everyone knows witches were hunted, tortured and often killed – burned at the stake,…