Home Care: Giving and taking away
The government gives, the home care agencies take away. Many of OPSEU’s home care agencies are presently at the bargaining table. You’d think this would be the best of times…
August 2014
These Pictures Reflect The Peril Of Our Times
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The Hair’s annual northern holiday.
We Canadians seem to enjoy our regular getaways but the Hair beats us all. How many times is this now that the Hair and his hairdresser and his wife have…
On King Horton’s
Dear Mr. Horton, Although I never drink the plonk that mascarades as regular joe at your outlets, and though your specialty donuts are nothing but sub-standard attempts to cash in…
How to deal with online assholes
I’ve been doing this web stuff – it’s a web site, people, not a blog – for about a decade-and-a-half. At the start, I didn’t have comments – partly because…
Stephen Harper and the Great Northern Farce
Well there he was today in the Northwest Passage, sailing majestically along and trying to pose as a great explorer, Harper of the True North Strong and Free. The push…
The Harper Cons: Still Killing the CBC and Still Lying About It.
About two months ago, I told you how Stephen Harper was killing the CBC, Chopping it into pieces, frying it in its own blood, and washing it down with a…
Judge Nixes Cove Point LNG Zoning Permit as Dominion Says Will Soon Receive Federal Permit
Co-Written with Caroline Selle An August 6 court decision handed down by Calvert County Circuit Court Judge James Salmon could put Dominion Resources’ timeline for its proposed Cove Point liquefied…
Free Tampons #nlpoli
Jessica Valenti, a columnist at the Guardian newspaper argued in her column in early August, that women should get free feminine hygiene products. Consider these points from Valenti’s column: “UNICEF…
Calling the bluff on "we must compete in the global marketplace"
The soul-numbing mantra “we must compete in the global marketplace” is much heard these days. Conservative politicians and business groups toss it out tirelessly as an argument to reduce taxes,…
On Glorifying Psychopaths
Murray Dobbin wrote a very provocative article relating our TV viewing of psychopaths to our politics. Owen explored the glorification of psychopaths in a post discussing the article, and I…
PC leadership: Jim Prentice’s term limit fumble and Thomas Lukaszuk’s cellular bill are good news for Ric McIver
File under, “Dinner, done like”… Alison Redford serves dinner to Thomas Lukaszuk as Jim Prentice, at left, and Dave Hancock, Doug Horner and Ric McIver look on. Actual Tory premiers,…
Alberta politics today: Caribou, Cell Phone Bills, and backing down on Term-Limits
TweetAnother news report this week focused on the devastation of caribou habitat in northwestern Alberta. The CBC story reported that deforestation caused by seismic cutlines and snowmobile traffic has caused…
Gazonto: Imagining Toronto Being Bombed Like Gaza (Video)
With short film, Gazonto, Canadian filmmaker and activist John Greyson reimagines Toronto as Gaza being bombed by Israel during the ongoing Gaza conflict. The post Gazonto: Imagining Toronto Being Bombed…
Dear John: greetings from the coast
Weather great, kids aren’t killing each other, and almost at 30,000 words – after two months. Not bad. Cheers, W
What might a Bloc Collapse mean for the Green Party of Canada?
Many of Canada’s politically engaged are watching with glee the collapse of the Bloc Quebecois. Election night, 2011, saw the Bloc return to Ottawa with a tiny cadre of 4…
Merkel seeks Spanish support for unpopular austerity measures | In English | EL PAÍS
Merkel seeks Spanish support for unpopular austerity measures | In English | EL PAÍS. German Chancellor Angela Merkel traveled to Spain on Sunday for a two-day trip aimed at securing…
the importance of “paid journalism” or my response to Sudbury wikileaks.
Something made me very angry today. I read an editorial in one of my local newspapers (The Northern Life). The editorial is defending one of the reporters against accusations made…
In Tuesday’s Sun: out on a limb
enator Romeo LeBlanc looked around. It was Spring 1993, and LeBlanc was sitting in a room on Parliament Hill, surrounded by a half-dozen Liberal Party staffers. I was one of…
What does your lazy summer afternoon at the lake have to do with saving the open Internet?
Hi! I’m Alexa, OpenMedia’s new Managing Director – great to meet you! I took a break from the behind the scenes work to share why I’m here. Summer days are…