Mayor Ford Was Asked to Leave the Ball
Ford Nation thinks this letter from 6 of the 13 members of the Military Ball organizing committee makes liars of the Toronto Star for reporting Ford was asked to leave…
2013
Stupid Blogger tribute to Bob Rae
A reporter contacted me today about the interim leader’s departure. Here’s what I said: He’s been like many last-term presidents and Prime Ministers – when they’re no longer seeking another…
It’s that time, kids #lpcldr
It’s that necessary evil in politics rearing its head…fundraising! If you are in downtown Toronto early this evening and care to come out to support MP Joyce Murray who is…
Porter Air, Pension Funds, and Invisible Strikers
Many years ago, in the midst of my teaching career, there was a movement by a group of us to try to get the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan to divest…
Oil Pipeline, Tanker Spills not a ‘Risk’ but a Certainty
I’ve got to say it, Premier: you don’t know a damned thing about pipelines and tankers. Do you not understand that the rupture of a pipeline or “accident” with a…
“Privilege generates the communication that the privilege protects. Eliminate the privilege, and the communication disappears”
1654776 Ontario Limited v. Stewart, 2013 ONCA 184
The Pidgin Picket, the Housing Crisis and the State
The Role of The State in Gentrification, the Housing Crisis, and its Ability to Relieve or Maintain the Current Situation by Rachel Goodine Pidgin, a new fine-dining restaurant located on…
She’s walkin’
By Rick Hiebert All Rights Reserved Used by Permission Faytene Grasseschi is still newsworthy to Charisma magazine, following their recent cover story on her. Their online news service, Charisma News,…
A Little Perspective Please
An interesting thing about The Jewish Tribune’s story about the death of Doug Christie, lawyer to Canada’s far right, is that it isn’t really about the death of Doug Christie.…
Inform your “fiscally conservative” friends please of this astounding failure
#neoliberalism Under Flaherty the #cdnecon since 2006 has been a debt-fuelled financialized one only with little real production, productivity, or significantly increased employment to drive demand. Credit card debt has…
Inform your “fiscally conservative” friends please of this astounding failure
#neoliberalism Under Flaherty the #cdnecon since 2006 has been a debt-fuelled financialized one only with little real production, productivity, or significantly increased employment to drive demand. Credit card debt has…
Inform your "fiscally conservative" friends please of this astounding failure
#neoliberalism Under Flaherty the #cdnecon since 2006 has been a debt-fuelled financialized one only with little real production, productivity, or significantly increased employment to drive demand. Credit card debt has…
Can TV change the world? Pivot, a new network aimed at millennials, hopes so by Frazier Moore
Little Mosque on the Prairie will be broadcast on the new US network aimed at 15-34 year old who “want to change the world.”
March 27: Jolly good fellows….
I used to speak some fifty or sixty times a year to various groups, mostly in Montreal. Among them were Rotarians. Dear fellows.There was always manly back-slapping, chaffing, smiles, joy…
China Grabs Ecuadorean Amazon for Oil
A team of Ecuadorean politicians is in Beijing. They bring gifts – more than three million hectares of pristine Amazon rainforest that is to be auctioned off to Chinese oil…
Radio-Canada pourrait bien changer de nom by Stéphane Baillargeon
The French-language arm of CBC is considering changing its name.
Bowling for Columbine turns ten
Editor’s note: Art Threat has launched a cultural archaeological project that involves digging up previously published but now inaccessible film reviews and cultural musings from Montreal-based writer and teacher Matthew…