Don Maroc Currently all attention is on the November 15, local government elections for municipal councillors and mayors, plus regional directors for nine districts, plus a Board of School Trustees,…
In this month’s IABC magazine, Warren and I were asked to argue opposite sides of the issue. He says yes, while I say no (sort of). Unfortunately, you must be…
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. – Archimedes The Harper government might think that a deranged…
Here, on how precarity is a serious concern in far more areas than the workplace alone – and how we should think about public policy as a means of eliminating…
Thought for the day. Harper sternly said that ISIS leaders have threatened to launch attacks on Canada. But, said our hero leader, we will not allow such barbarism from evil…
TweetWith less than two days left in Alberta’s mini-election, voters will head to the polls on the morning of October 27, 2014 to cast their ballots in by-elections being held…
And it’s in Toronto-Danforth – think about that. Hmmmm.
This and that for your weekend reading. – Geoff Stiles writes that instead of providing massive subsidies to dirty energy industries which don’t need them (and which will only have…
There’s this phrase that scholar Sherene Razack has used that I’ve been thinking about: “the race to innocence.” I’ve been thinking about it as I’ve watched the reactions to the…
Filed under: Cartoons (Single Panel), Making fun of Harper
“Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.” – The opening sentence of Franz Kafka’s The Trial…
This still frame taken from CBC video shows Kevin Vickers, gun drawn, walking down the hall moments after the death of Michael Zehaf-Bibeau inside Centre Block. (CBC) http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-shooting-the-face-to-face-encounter-that-ended-the-attack-on-parliament-1.2812802 No SWAT…
The New York Times has a huge piece this morning, with multiple contributors, about the shooter and Ottawa (whose name I still refuse to use). Was he an Islamic radical,…
http://subjectguides.fortlewis.edu/ I haven’t blogged much over the last few days. We are currently involved in moving my ninety-one year old mother into an assisted living facility in Montreal. For today,…
We were all deeply concerned the other day. It just takes time to think it through. How awful that this sad, mentally-deranged person with a gun be enabled to attack…
Richard Hughes Many of you have already heard about the desperate pleas of a family in a life and death struggle to save a Lake Cowichan woman, a mother, a…
Oct. 23, 2014: Members and supporters of Pimicikamak Cree Nation rallied at Manitoba Hydro’s Winnipeg Headquarters to explain the reasons for their occupation of the Jenpeg Generating Station. Photo: Paul…
Black Box – Everybody Everybody
Reporting on Wednesday’s Ottawa shootings, CNN and other global media outlets resorted to needless sensationalism, propagandist fear-mongering and self-serving interpretations of terrorism. The post Ottawa Shootings: CNN fear-mongering an insult…
I knew Stephen Harper wouldn't waste any time exploiting the senseless tragedy on Parliament Hill.I knew he'd strike when many people were still in shock, emotions were still raw, the…
