Sept. 5: Some real news on p. 1
University “Tuition costs keep soaring: report”. Even as universities grow, they are pricing themselves out of reach. In the US, it has reached the point at which pensioners are still…
2013
Anthony Weiner confronts a voter in Brooklyn
Anthony Weiner, mayoralty candidate for New York city, confronts a voter who called him ‘scumbag’. It is an interesting confrontation. After an Orthodox Jewish man called Mr. Weiner a “scumbag”…
Challenging Sex Segregation in Sport
When Hank Aaron left the Negro Leagues for major league baseball in the early 1950s, a woman named Toni Stone took his spot on second base. Rejected from the All-American…
Right to counsel
R. v. Manchulenko, 2013 ONCA 543: The purpose of the right to counsel is to allow a detainee not only to be informed of his rights and obligations under the…
Canadians fighting in Syria
Some of these Canadians are converted Muslims and part of extremists group such as Al-Qaeda. One thing you can say about Assad is that he kept these kinds of extremists…
Minimum Wage: Not Just for Kids Anymore!
The 1% and their media apologists and think tank lackeys would have us all believe that minimum wage is for kids. It’s for unskilled labour in entry level jobs.And it’s…
The Beginning and End of Globalization and US Hegemony
Let us begin with a word, and the word is “globalization.” Not chosen randomly, but because it jumped out of the mindless chatter and could not be ignored. Hardly heard…
Defence Minister Rob Nicholson Disavows Fatima
NOTE: Before the article, we would ask the woman who provided us the story about WEB members if she could email us. You will find our email address on the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Justin Ling reports on the federal government’s covert surveillance of Idle No More: Sitting in her teepee on Ottawa’s Victoria Island in…
NATO is so flustered it can barely keep it’s lies straight
As John Kerry gets called out for his obvious lies regarding the Syrian rebels the ‘rebels’ have decided to siege a village and make some more lovely P.R. for Kerry…
Marois sells inferiority.
Quebec’s sovereignty soliloquists believe they have a free hand to sell separatism to their captive audience. Quebec Premier Pauline Marois bragged to the media recently that her Parti Québécois are…
From My Quotes Cupboard – Krupp
Maddened, Alfred struck back with a plan to silence all his enemies. At first they were indeed speechless. Had he gone through with it, he too would have been silenced…
Peter Shurman, meet Mike Duffy, Pam Wallin and Mac Harb
What’s significant about this story about the main Ontario PC spokesman isn’t (a) that he’s now got the same problem Harb, Duffy, Wallin et al. have, and it isn’t (b)…
New column day
Here, on how “we must increase stock prices!” – or worse yet, “we must increase company X’s stock prices!” – makes for a thoroughly regressive public policy goal. For further…
Looking back 1 v.2
I think I fixed the composition problems from the first version. Looking back on Vernazza in the Parco Nazionalle de Cinque Terre, Italy. Filed under: art Tagged: art, Cinque Terre,…
Canada must work for peace in Syria
Aug. 31, 2013: Two of the Winnipeggers who gathered at the Canadian Human Rights Museum to oppose military intervention in Syria. Photo: Paul S. Graham By Peace Alliance Winnipeg As…
The Trudeau paradox
Here, finally, a real poll by a real pollster about what I consider a real concern: Trudeau’s strength is simultaneously his weakness. It is his freshness, and his newness, that…
Tory MPP Peter Shurman: My Salary Is Not Enough
“Frankly, on the basis of … how we’re paid at the legislature, I can’t afford two houses,” he said in an interview. “I make $112,500 a year. Some people think…
Hope Where Power Is Divorced From Politics
Henry Giroux is one of neo-liberalism’s fiercest critics, From McMaster University, he now writes about his native land with burning passion. In the United States, Giroux opines, power has become…
Reasons to NOT Support Operation Christmas Child
Google informs me that there are already people and schools taking advantage of back-to-school sales to gather supplies for Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. While I think it is great to…