Samller and Smaller
There has been lots of speculation recently that Stephen Harper might be ready to walk off into a snowstorm. But his appointment last week of Dimitri Soudas as the executive…
2013
Conceiving a caring Canada.
Your country is like your garden. It takes care, cultivating, weeding and the approval of others to make it a source of pride. And if Canada is your garden, it…
First Nations Get $0.3M for Solar Research #skpoli
The Conservative government generously gave First Nations in Saskatchewan enough grant money to build one impressively sized solar array that could power a half dozen homes. Ontario is going with…
Stink Tanks: Historical Records Reveal State Policy Network Was Created by ALEC
A 1991 report tracked down by DeSmogBlog from the University of California-San Francisco’s Legacy Tobacco Documents reveals that the State Policy Network (SPN) was created by the American Legislative Exchange…
Merry Christmas America: You’ve Been Scrooged
As the holidays draw nearer, it appears that, judging from president Obama’s speech on economic inequality last week, he finally gets it: America has been scrooged. I think that this…
Dr James Hansen: Assessing Dangerous Climate Change
“If we go another decade or two just charging ahead business as usual, then we leave people a possibly unsolvable problem.” -James Hansen * Retired NASA scientist Dr James…
The Conservatives and federal-provincial relations #nlpoli
Two news stories last week reminded us once again of the nature of federal-provincial relations for Newfoundland and Labrador over the past decade. A story in the Chronicle Herald reported…
Stephen Harper, Rob Ford and Our Divided Country
It's hard to decide which Con clown is more pathetic. The one on his way to the funeral of Nelson Mandela. The man he once called a terrorist who should…
Treemendous
“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” – Larry Wilde For a handful of years, three generations…
Mental derangement?
I saw this story and wondered what was behind it. Behaviour like this is extraordinarily dangerous – a man who stole a snow plow a few years ago killed a…
Scandale au view Forum de Montréal #Habs
Le Canadien de Montréal est une équipe mythique. Une des équipes fondatrices de la Ligue nationale de hockey (LNH). Le Forum a été pendant longtemps le temple du sport de…
The Failure of "Cobbsville" Part V: Misanthropy
By now our readers might need to be reminded why this blog, which almost exclusively focuses on the racist movement in Canada, is paying so much attention to the Craig…
Redford and Mandela: Hypocrisy Meets Hope and Learns Nothing
The Redford government’s capacity for hypocrisy knows no bounds. In the same week that Redford’s PC government passed two corrosive pieces of anti-labour legislation, Ms Redford reflected on what she’d…
herbert: mandela and king were not warm and fuzzy, they were hard-core revolutionaries
Bob Herbert in Jacobin: I knew that the tributes would be pouring in immediately from around the world, and I also knew that most of them would try to do…
My problems with Chong’s Reform Act and my own preferences for reform
Having finally gotten around to reading Michael Chong’smuch-ballyhooed Reform Act, which is being pushed by the media pundit class with a fervor that would make most partisans blush, I feel…
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #11
Customer: “Hi, can I print from a USB here? My printer at home isn’t working.” Me: Customer: “I just want to print from my USB.” Me:
Deficiencies in translation
Li v. Jean, 2013 NSCA 135: A failure of, or gross deficiency in translation has the potential to deprive a litigant of the right to a trial of issues on…
Ijiraat
The Ijiraat are the shape-shifters. These land spirits are elusive and can transform into any arctic animal to disguise themselves. Most often they take the shape of a raven, bear,…
Raps trade Gay?
What the Hell?