The Perfect Ponzi Scheme
Last week, Thomas Perkins complained that governments were treating the very rich like Jews in Nazi Germany. Paul Krugman writes that such plutocratic paranoia is not an isolated instance: There…
January 2014
Adam Faulkner’s, “The Whitest Thing”
I’m so in love with this poem that I want to marry it. You can read a bunch of stuff on Whiteness and even some really simple consumable stuff by
I tried to think of something warm. This is what I came up with.
I don’t know about you, but the next person who says to me (a) “Is it cold enough for ya?” and/or (b) “This is a real Canadian winter!” is going…
Winter Olympics: Polar Biathlon
You’d think that a combination sport that included brutal cross-country skiing and the use of firearms would be really exciting. And you’d be wrong. But we have the solution. It…
Oil on the Tracks: More Oil Spills from Railcars in 2013 than in Previous Four Decades
As a direct result of the Bakken shale oil boom, more crude oil was spilled from rail cars last year than in the previous four decades combined. That’s according to…
Another former blogger (David Graham) running for a Liberal nomination
It seems a fair number of bloggers, or former bloggers, are deciding to try going from their grass/netroots activism and translate that into trying to get elected to office to…
Stephen Harper and the Sickening Corruption of Chris Alexander
They say that everything he touches he corrupts, or drags into his monstrous world.And it must be true eh?Because just look at the sad and pathetic case of Chris Alexander.Once…
Forget the rinse. Just repeat. #nlpoli
The same people saying and doing the same things as they have always done won’t change anything A provincial Conservative started out the week explaining why he cut a deal…
Alberta government ponders ‘options’ as independent arbitrator overturns firing of jail guards who took part in illegal strike
AUPE Correctional Officers rally at the picket line outside the Edmonton Remand Centre during their illegal strike in June 2013. Below: Arbitrator Andy Sims; former deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk, as…
Our time in Baños was well spent
Paragliding at sunset one day and looking out over the Amazon the next. The Amazon, shortly after a downpour Paragliding at sunset
Doing politics differently? NDP break campaign laws in Niagara Falls by-election
Is breaking the law to try and win Andrea Horwath’s idea of “leadership”?
Dutch Disease, Prices and Wages in Saskatchewan
Jim Stanford recently pointed out that many of the conservative economists who had defended the overvalued loonie have quickly shifted to applauding its depreciation. The Government of Saskatchewan may be…
help me buy a tablet
I think I’m finally up for buying a tablet. I bought a little Lenovo IdeaPad netbook for school. I loved it, and I thought if it made it through four…
Canucks Greedy Ownership Threaten ‘Free Torts’ T-Shirt Vendor
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Over on ‘The Left Side’ you will see two stories spun off from the brawl that took place at the recent Vancouver Canucks-Calgary Flames NHL game in…
Raise the Minimum Wage campaign meeting
The Campaign to Raise the Minimum Wage held an organizing and strategy meeting this weekend. It started on Friday with talks by Sterling Harders about the SeaTac citizen’s initative campaign…
what i’m reading: four youth books and some kind-of spoilers
Flight is a thought-provoking short novel by one of my favourite youth writers, Sherman Alexie. The main character in Flight, a Native American boy who goes by the derisive nickname…
A street in downtown Montreal…
… tell me, dear internet wanderer… Where does a community mailbox Fit? ? (1) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
The Trouble with Ezra Levant…
Mr Ezra Levant Ezra Levant is a Canadian media personality, an ultra-conservative political activist, author and lawyer who has made a brilliant career out of being half right. In a…
Submarine Soup
For some reason, Canada, with the world’s largest coastline bordering three of the most important oceans on Earth, is fielding a fleet of four, 28-year old submarines purchased second-hand from…