The New Attack on Unions
The latest issue of the York University e journal Just Labour is now available. In addition to three articles on youth and labour, it includes my paper “Up Against the…
2013
In Syria a bombing campaign is the best option
I believe a bombing campaign with the aim to toppling the Assad regime, similar to the campaign in Libya, is justified. The primary reason is that allowing the civil war…
An Immutable Truth
This, from Howard Zinn: Recommend this Post
MobileSyrup: Verizon CEO says story about the company coming to Canada was "overblown"
We’ve always said it was a red herring used by Big Telecom to scare Canadians into handing them the future of cell phone service. We’ve worked with Canadians to develop…
MobileSyrup: Verizon CEO says story about the company coming to Canada was "overblown"
We’ve always said it was a red herring used by Big Telecom to scare Canadians into handing them the future of cell phone service. We’ve worked with Canadians to develop…
What is a councillor’s role?
A question was asked of me recently about the appropriateness of the Deputy Mayor being at a meeting last summer to discuss the possible purchase of the new recreational facility…
From my Quotes Cupboard – Russia
Mecklenburg was small and weak and needed a powerful protector; marriage to a Russian princess would bring the Tsar’s support. Knowing that the two daughters of Tsar Ivan V were…
Betting on Birthdays
I don’t know how many times we’ve nearly lost our Nicholas. Doctors told us in 2005 that he might have two months to live – a sleep study that year…
Obama’s War, the Divided Left, and the Syrian Apocalypse
It will be about a week before we know whether Obama will get to fire his missiles at Syria. But what already painfully obvious is that just his threat to…
School’s Started…
This is the kind of thing you’ll be seeing around you this week as kids go back to school–this one is near where our kids did elementary school. But what…
Sloppy reporting on unions from Globe and Mail & Canadian Press
The Globe and Mail (regurgitating the Canadian Press, apparently) gets it wrong about unions in a story in today’s print edition. They claim that “Union membership has declined in Canada…
You Aren’t Sufficiently Critical of the #Media
You need to trust the media less. Almost a year ago, and before the last US presidential election, Gallup determined that there has been a stunning decline in citizens’ mistrust…
On family ties
Laura Ryckewaert’s report on the Cons’ Senate strategy has already received plenty of attention. But I’m more interested in a senior Conservative’s excuses for Stephen Harper’s actual appointees than what…
Vancouver Sun Letter
A letter of mine in the Vancouver Sun today, this one about the “Disappearing Palestine” ads on public transit here in the city. I try to defend the ads against…
Another look back #2
Hmmm… Some bad Impressionism, a poor Group of Seven… A mountain in the north of Italy near Piossasco, from a photo out the train window. More than just a little…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Mariana Mazzucato points out that important inventions tend to come from public financing aimed at the greater good – while noting that…
It Sounds Like a Japanese Sci-Fi Movie – An "Ice Wall" to Sequester Fukushima
The Japanese government claims it will build a wall of frozen soil to surround the Fukushima nuclear plant and, it’s hoped, prevent radioactive cooling water from leaking. Shafts will be…