Article touches on sensitive union issues
Should union members give up some of their seniority rights to make the movement more appealing to a critical public? This is one of the controversial points touched on by…
2013
‘Pain in the Assad’
A ‘pain in the Assad?’ Syrian cartoonist speaks out from exile. “Things were starting to give a pain in the arse,” says Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat. (Illustration: Ali Ferzat)
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Emily Badger discusses how poverty affects people who are forced to use their physical and mental resources on bare survival: Human mental bandwidth…
Blonde ambition. Tunes.
Listening to old Blondie today in the batcave…. From the CBGB days, around the same time the Ramones were playing there…. To round off this episode of Blonde Ambition? read…
A Stinging Indictment Of Joe Oliver And The Harper Mentality
It would seem that Chad Beharriell of Windsor has Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver’s number: Make transition to a green economy Like a dinosaur that can see the comet coming,…
What’s it all about, Alfie?
“What’s it all about, Alfie?” sings Cilla Black in the title song for the eponymous 1966 movie. But it could be the anthem for the human race, or at least…
EI, Self-Insurance or Three-Card Monte?
Monte Solberg, the former Conservative cabinet minister responsible for Employment Insurance, proposed to eliminate the program in a recent Sun Media column: An alternative would be to self-insure. Employee and…
Looking back
Now, this… This is based on a photo grabbed in a glimpse of a second, looking back out of the car window. I tried working over the photo. But it…
Milky Way’s giant black hole is a messy eater
I wrote a post earlier that Milky Way’s giant black hole is very hungry and his diet consists of stars. Now a new reports shows that it is not a…
Do you expect a humbled Hudak?
The Ontario Conservatives’ hapless leader Timmy Hudak is a continuing problem for his caucus and party. Ontario pundits have continued to have their say about him and nobody knows anything…
Putin orders a massive attack on Saudi Arabia if U.S. attacks Syria?
Interesting news. “A grim “urgent action memorandum” issued today from the office of President Putin to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is ordering a “massive military strike” against…
Sunday morning: Commodity
This is Guthrie Trapp.
What Do Mark Twain And Charles Darwin Have In Common?
If you thought their commonality lay in their capacity for observation, thought, and contribution to the general good, guess again. First, Mr. Twain’s shocking ‘truth’: Next, the real story about…
The Artic Shadow
Michael Byers, the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia, writes that during his recent Arctic Tour Stephen Harper tried to look…
The ecology of wealth
Saudi Prince Alwaleed with his wife, Princess Amira al-Taweel (AFP/Getty) What is a man to do with a “main palace” of 420 rooms, a customized Boeing 747 jumbo jet for…
happy labour day: thank a union, and thank the men and women who made unions possible
If you’re enjoying a long weekend, take a moment to acknowledge the blood, sweat, and tears of the women and men who made that possible. This page from a regional…