The Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia and the Con Bigots
It's International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. A day to remember the millions of LGBT people in the world who are being oppressed, hurt, and even murdered for the "crime"…
May 2014
Saturday night blues blogging
Let’s see if I can get your toe tappin’ for starters with I’m a Lowdown Viper by Those Delta Rhythm Kings. Here’s a slow instrumental by Jerry Portnoy called Blues…
Hudak’s New Ad
My favorite bit. He’s just fired a bunch of people. It wasn’t an easy decision. It was a hard one. It didn’t make him happy. The rest of is here.
And the rest, as they say, is gravy
Today’s ride, a 164km tour through the countryside south and east of Ottawa (Berwick – if that means anything), put me over the top for my training goal for this…
Oh NDP,You Have So Sold Out
From CFRA: Alex Cullen, the NDP candidate for Ottawa-West Nepean admitted public sector job cuts are likely if his party is in power following the June election, but would likely…
Picabia
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May 17:How utterly stupid we are!
It’s pretty sobering to look at the tremendous problems we have created for the near future – problems of food supply, climate, wildly overstrained resources. problems of immense overpopulation, problems…
Conference Board illustrates folly of conventional economic metrics
Once again conventional measurement has painted a warped view of our economic well-being. Relying principally on growth in the GDP sense, The Conference Board of Canada applauds the oil and…
Barely A Parody
If you have ever watched the Stephen Harper propaganda channel, you will have a hard time distinguishing it from the following parody: H/t Canadians Rallying To Unseat Stephen Harper Recommend…
The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States
The Struggle Within is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty…
A Modest Proposal On Firearms
For years the argument has been made that regulations related to firearms are just a means for the government to subjugate the populace. However, I have never heard any of…
New Webstore at Leftwingbooks.net!
It is with great pleasure that i can tell you that leftwingbooks.net — the webstore associated with kersplebedeb — has been completely overhauled. For the longest time, the previous shopping…
The Harper Cons have announced they are naming the new Finance…
The Harper Cons have announced they are naming the new Finance Canada building after the worst finance minister in Canadian (and Ontario) history, “Deficit Jim” Flaherty. To reflect Flaherty’s disastrous…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Bill Moyers interviews Richard Wolff about inequality – featuring Wolff’s observation that anybody trying to justify inequality as an inevitable byproduct of unregulated…
The folly of Hudakian Conservatives in the Ontario PC Party will cost them this election…
In 2003, Ontarians had fully experienced the impact of Mike Harris’ neo-conservative policies in action: crowded schools, never-ending labour disruptions, demoralized teachers, growing health care wait times, closed hospitals, fired…
In Harperland, The Worst ‘Crime’ Imaginable
… apparently is hanging the flag upside down.* Crypto fascists have always been thus. *Hanging the flag upside down is recognized as a symbol of distress. Recommend this Post
Saskatchewan University Professor Robert Buckingham Fired Then Rehired
Don Maroc – Cowichan Conversations Blogger Taking over as provost of McMaster University, in Hamilton, Ontario, in 2007, Philadelphia born Ilene Busch-Vishniac wrote, “…what I’ve learned moving into new positions…
The punk rock torch passes from one generation to the next
Son Three: I like Jello Biafra’s voice. Me : You know about Jello Biafra? Son Three: I think ‘Holiday In Cambodia’ is still their best song. Me: I think I
Toronto Star pimps Liberals, ‘Goars’ NDP to weasel left vote
The Toronto Star’s flagrant promotion of the Ontario Liberal party — coupled with relentless and baseless smears against the NDP — puts them right in Sun News territory: agenda-driven faux…
Whither the Ontario NDP’s social conscience?
I’ve been observing this Ontario campaign with some curiosity as to why the Ontario Liberals decided they were going to target Andrea Horwath and the Ontario NDP first in the…