The Ukraine Crisis – It Is All About Control of Oil and Gas
Cold War propaganda has been ratcheted up considerably as the US continues its efforts to gain control and influence in the region that began a decade ago. Exxon, Shell and…
March 2014
March 9: Project for the New American Century
ever read about it – in any newspaper? Ever hear of its founder, William Kristol? Or of prominent members like George Bush’s Bush brother: Or former secretary of the army…
A Question To Ask Any Day Of The Week
I’m working on installing some flooring in the house today, so for now, here is a question that deserves to be asked by all critical thinkers: Recommend this Post
Silencing or Strategic Manoeuvring? Professor Strong-Boag, International Women’s Day and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
For the past three days, my Facebook and Twitter feeds have been filled with a series of re-posts and re-tweets related to Professor Veronica Strong-Boag's blogpost about International Women's Day…
Silencing or Strategic Manoeuvring? Professor Strong-Boag, International Women’s Day and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
For the past three days, my Facebook and Twitter feeds have been filled with a series of re-posts and re-tweets related to Professor Veronica Strong-Boag’s blogpost about International Women’s Day…
Silencing or Strategic Manoeuvring? Professor Strong-Boag, International Women’s Day and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
For the past three days, my Facebook and Twitter feeds have been filled with a series of re-posts and re-tweets related to Professor Veronica Strong-Boag's blogpost about International Women's Day…
Silencing or Strategic Manoeuvring? Professor Strong-Boag, International Women’s Day and the Canadian Museum of Human Rights
For the past three days, my Facebook and Twitter feeds have been filled with a series of re-posts and re-tweets related to Professor Veronica Strong-Boag’s blogpost about International Women’s Day…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Michael Hiltzik writes about the efforts of the corporate sector – including the tobacco and food industries – to produce mass ignorance in…
We get letters: this morning’s death threat
From “Chris,” email Roadhammer_@live.ca, IP 24.138.62.169. He’s somewhere in Nova Scotia, looks like. I know you won’t approve this, but you still have to read it. I hope to HELL…
Péladeau steps up to Quebec election.
Pierre Karl Péladeau scion of the Quebecor millions has agreed to run in Saint-Jérȏme riding for the Parti Québécois in the April election. Quebec Premier Pauline Marois has made the…
The Economics Of Coercion
The British economic historian Avner Offer believes that the gap between our economic model and our economic reality is now similar to the gap between Karl Marx’s Communism and Leonid…
Canada Approves Enbridge Line 9 Reversal: Tar Sands Crude to Flow to Montreal
Alberta’s tar sands crude has a new route east. Canada’s National Energy Board announced on Thursday the approval of Enbridge’s request to reverse and expand a portion of the company’s…
Canada Approves Enbridge Line 9 Reversal: Tar Sands Crude to Flow to Montreal
Alberta’s tar sands crude has a new route east. Canada’s National Energy Board announced on Thursday the approval of Enbridge’s request to reverse and expand a portion of the company’s…
not a funny story: ned vizzini, youth fiction, and suicide
It’s so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That’s the first line of Ned Vizzini’s excellent 2006 youth novel, It’s Kind of a Funny Story. By the…
The phrase “spring forward, fall back” goes back decades.
One of the first uses was by the Heppner Gazette-Times in Oregon, which gave that advice to its readers in 1928.
Harpers Orwellian Regime
Arising from George Orwells novel Nineteen Eighty-Four published in 1949 the adjective Orwelliandescribes a totalitarian dystopia characterised by government control and subjugation of the people. Orwell’s invented language, Newspeak, satirises…
Will Vic Toews Be Appointed to the Supreme Court?
Oh boy. Talk about a roller coaster of emotions eh?Yesterday I wrote a post about Vic Toews being appointed as a judge in Manitoba's top trial court. And although it's…
Teddy’s Sunday Prediction – Quebec
It’s been suggested in the comments – and yes I do listen, even to the ones I dispute – that I am unclear. I will thus try something a bit…