People’s Climate March
Getting ready for school, I was going through files and came across an interview with Noam Chomsky for Teen Talking Circles. In it, Chomsky answers the question, “Do you honestly…
August 2014
TelClarity: Wind Mobile cuts roaming rates by %95. Here’s how they could cut them more
A recent CRTC ruling brought the roaming rates that Big Telecom charges smaller companies like Wind Mobile down from the stratosphere. Here’s why they still need to go further Article…
Ode to the bridge to somewhere: a mini-memoir
I went for lunch today with my old pal Bruce Miller. I chose the Original Joe’s on 102 Avenue because a) it’s relatively cheap and good (I always have a…
Large container ship ‘Attila’ strikes Vancouver dock
CMA GCM Attila, moored at Vancouver’s Centerm after striking dock (Photo: Damien Gillis) A large container ship, the “CMA CGM Attila”, struck the dock at Vancouver’s Centerm container port early…
Venezuela at a tipping point
No matter how you cut it, Nicolás Maduro’s first year in office was no walk in the park. Even before the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez died after a long…
New York Times-As Truce Holds, Dazed Gazans Get Down to Business
From the New York Times By FARES AKRAM and JODI RUDOREN GAZA — The banks reopened, the markets were crowded, workers began repairing downed electric lines and bulldozers cleared rubble…
‘Severe… Pervasive… Irreversible”: IPCC’s Devastating Climate Change Conclusions
Here is a stunning report from Common Dreams by Jon Queally, Common Dreams staff writerA draft of the UN panel’s synthesis report on the global scientific community’s assessment of human-caused…
The Day the Premiers Gave Stephen Harper a Slap in the Face
He thought he could disrespect all those dead and missing aboriginal women. He thought he could treat that holocaust as just random acts of violence.He thought he could use his…
State Dept. Overseers of Contentious Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline Workaround Have Industry, Torture Ties
The Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and other green groups recently revealed that pipeline giant Enbridge got U.S. State Department permission in response to its request to construct a…
Canada rated as peaceful but risking environmental practices that threaten natural beauty
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Canada has been described as a beautiful country, peaceful and inhabited by warm, friendly people. For decades we were respected and in part earned our reputation way…
New York Times Claims Putin has Opened "Third Front" Invasion of Ukraine. Nobody Else Biting Yet.
A bulletin from The New York Times claims that Russian military units including infantry, tanks and artillery, have poured over the border into eastern Ukraine, “attacking Ukrainian forces and causing…
Shawnigan’s April Sanderson Works To Save The Blue Throated Macaws
The photo of this brilliant Blue Throated Macaw caught my eye and drew me in to read Cowichan Citizen reporter Kevin Rothbauer’s story about the amazing work of Shawnigan’s April…
Dumbass of the Week Award Goes to: Charles Vacca, Firearms Instructor
It’s called the “Last Stop” and, for 39-year old Arizonan, Charles Vacca, it lived up to its name. For Charles Vacca, the Last Stop was a shooting range where he…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – David Reevely writes about the stench of corporate corruption hanging over a privately-sponsored premiers’ conference. And Paul Willcocks nicely contrasts the professed belief…
Montaigne’s cat and Descartes’ reality
“When I play with my cat,” wrote French philosopher and essayist, Michel de Montaigne, “Who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.*” That…
"Our Next Progressive Toronto City Councillor": Kate Holloway formally launches bid for city council seat in Ward 20 in Toronto
I’m very happy to be supporting my friend Kate Holloway (pictured) in her bid for a Toronto City Council seat this October. She’s running in Ward 20, Trinity-Spadina, which was…
Opinion Evidence
R. v. M.C., 2014 ONCA 611: The law of evidence distinguishes between fact and opinion. The distinction seems more and ultimately one of convenience rather than of objective reality. All…
The Time It Takes
It was mid morning yesterday when I arrived at my Mom’s apartment and mid afternoon when we ambled out to the car to begin our errands. In the interim, we’d…