In Friday’s Sun: the rough beast slouching towards Baghdad
What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Baghdad to be born? Theatrical, perhaps; a mangling of Yeats, to be sure. But watching U.S. President Barack Obama…
September 2014
Kinder Morgan Asks B.C. to Remove Land from Provincial Parks to Make Way for Trans Mountain Pipeline Construction
Kinder Morgan made the news last week after disagreement between the company and the city of Burnaby came to a head over the removal of trees in the Burnaby Mountain…
Sept. 11: Debates dominate election campaign…
So says page 1 of section A for the Moncton Times and Tribune.. And the only possible answer to that is so bloody what. The Broadbent Institute is one of…
The Ukraine Crisis Remains Unresolved — Paul Craig Roberts
Dr. Roberts was associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and a columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service. He was a nationally syndicated columnist…
Food for thought
Site C Dam: Food for Thought from Peace Valley Environment Assoc. on Vimeo. Produced by Damien Gillis of The Common Sense Canadian.
"Arab States Back US Push Against Islamic State"
Saudi Armour on Anti-Democracy Patrol in Bahrain That was the headline from the BBC report on a mini-summit attended by US State Secretary, John Kerry, and senior officials from Saudi…
Whoever has the most trucks wins: redefining winning in war
Our ideas about war have mostly been patterned after WW1 and WW2, where states sent their armies to war against other states, eventually somebody won, peace agreements were signed, and…
Deep Green Resistance
Deep Green Resistance is a pro-woman, social-justice environmental organization. As radicals, we hold a class analysis on injustice, and we are fighting enmeshed systems of oppression. Industrial ecocide & misogyny…
The Islamic State—should we be helping to clean up the Americans’ mess?
In early 2003, there were no Islamic extremists in Iraq, or at least none that dared raise their heads above ground. Then the Americans and their “coalition of the willing”…
Freegan Food Activist Exposes Grocery Industry Waste
You’ve got to hear about Rob. He’s an interesting guy, doing what I did last Summer except on a much larger and more successful scale.
Harper / PMO: “The Inuit knew about the Franklin ships? Who knew?”
APTN demonstrates how low a priority First Nations relations are with the Harper government at the moment: The Franklin expedition ship found by researchers on the Arctic seabed has a…
Shakedown in Yankeeland
ANALYSIS American shakedown: Police won’t charge you, but they’ll grab your money U.S. police are operating a co-ordinated scheme to seize as much of the public’s cash as they can…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – The Broadbent Institute studies wealth inequality in Canada, and finds not only that the vast majority of Canada’s capital resources remain concentrated…
Mayor Discovered on Tumour
Too soon? Too cold? Sorry. When it was announced yesterday that Mayor Rob Ford’s doctors discovered he has developed a tumour I was surprised, sort of (not really). For a…
A Petition of Academics Against the CCPA Audit
A guest blog post from Mario Seccareccia and Louis-Philippe Rochon. After learning that the Canada Revenue Agency is auditing the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on the grounds that it…
Throwback Thursday Thing
Yes, it’s me. In The Trial Continues, the alt band Chris Benner and I had in Ottawa. I plead that it was the Eighties.
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, September 11, 2014
Your news links for today: An Open Internet Is Essential to a Free Internet: Why Net Neutrality Should Matter To Everyone – EFF Google: Support Net Neutrality! (Just Ignore That…
Should Welfare Recipients Try Harder to Find Work?
This morning the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation released a new report about “motivational interviewing” for welfare recipients. The link to the full report is here, and the link to…
New column day
Here, on how the corporate sector is taking advantage of Brad Wall, Michael Fougere and their respective administrations at the expense of citizens who both fund and rely on public…
Site C Dam: Food for thought
Check out this short video from The Peace Valley Environment association and The Common Sense Canadian’s Damien Gillis on the extraordinary agricultural land that would be flooded by the proposed…