The Young Adults Are More Than Alright
Baby Boomers are just like their parents – they complain about all the problems they think the youth are causing (as if it’s the youth fault the planet is experiencing…
April 2014
3 reasons why the Socialists are right to revolt against PM Valls’ austerity plan
Originally posted on Revolting Europe: France’s ruling socialist party is in revolt. A very vocal minority don’t like the austerity plan of new PM Manuel Valls. And they are threatening…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, April 23, 2014: The Legal Status Of Lab Rats Forced Arbitration Is Cuckoo For Cocoa Puffs Unfortunately…
If there was any doubt that racism is alive and well in Canada….
Yesterday I wrote a mini-rant on the “gaze” of the CBC article on the Temporary Foreign Workers Program. Look, you can disagree with me and argue that it was just
Da Brudders: 38 years ago today
Bjorn reminded me Da Brudders first LP – my fave ever, still – came out 38 years ago today. Here they are in Arturo Vega’s loft in 1975, around the…
An Ugly Blast From The Past
It’s not news to note that the Harper government is fixated on the past. From dropping the word “progressive” from the party’s moniker to building a resource based economy —…
Mayor On Crack
This Saturday night at the Bovine Sex Club on Queen West – see it live, buy merch, help us pay for our therapists!
Mac’s Convenience should sue The Beer Store.
Why not cut to the chase? The Beer Store advertising that is currently running on television is slandering every convenience store in Ontario. It is wrong. It is unfair. It…
Ignorance occasionally has a purpose
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.” If you’re older than 30, you remember the nineties. Hard…
Putin says experts should hold on to every area of Russia’s Arctic continental shelf
Wake up Canada: Story While conducting bilateral and multilateral consultations with governments of the Arctic nations, Russian experts should hold on to every area of the Arctic continental shelf of…
Strategically Unwise and other political own-goals #nlpoli
Depending on which interview you listened to on Tuesday, Tom Marshall would be hanging around as Premier until the end of the summer. At least. That’s the VOCM story. Marshall…
Jonathon Chait On Keystone XL
I’ve said it before, environmentalists aren’t focused on Obama regulations re existing power plants because their role in that fight is largely over. They did their bit. They won. Chait…
The Con Regime and the Whale Songs of Resistance
When I was a boy I sometimes used to dream about running away to sea. So the sight of that old sugar boat today, made me dream for a moment…
Humpbacks losing ‘threatened’ status amid pipeline concerns
This is Earth Day? Inspired by this headline. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/humpback-whale-losing-threatened-status-amid-northern-gateway-concerns-1.2617633
Does BC’s Neglect of Poverty Constitute a Eugenics Plan?
There has been a great deal of talk in recent decades about the cycle of poverty, how it’s a vicious circle that children have difficulty getting out of. Human chromosomes…
Leaflet targeting Jews in Donetsk ‘a political hoax’: anti-Semitism as a propaganda tool
Below left: Donetsk synagogue / Below right: Chief Rabbi Pinchas Vishedski holding anti-Semitic leaflet Anti-Semitism has a long and ugly history in Ukraine. During the current conflict between the interim…
Drop-kicking HIV/AIDS stigma to the curb
“This December I found a mass the size of a cantaloupe in my lung…I used social media to express my feelings without having to burden my family and friends. I’d…