https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/podcast-141001-kshama-sawant.mp3 Last year, Kshama Sawant shocked the continent by winning a seat on Seattle’s City Council. She defeated an incumbent Democrat to become the first openly socialist city councillor in…
Stephen Harper wants Canada to take the war to ISIS. Why? Because in Beelzebub’s overworked imagination such a thing would be not merely necessary but, gee whiz, noble. That’s “noble”…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Like so many of you my concern about this runaway climate change train wreck that our politicians are allowing and in many case aiding and abetting is…
I went on a bit of a tear today on Twitter in support of mandatory voting, spurred somewhat by the discussion happening at the Canada 2020 conference in Ottawa.Voter participation…
I went on a bit of a tear today on Twitter in support of mandatory voting, spurred somewhat by the discussion happening at the Canada 2020 conference in Ottawa. Voter…
I went on a bit of a tear today on Twitter in support of mandatory voting, spurred somewhat by the discussion happening at the Canada 2020 conference in Ottawa.Voter participation…
While governments all over the globe continue to squabble about how to address greenhouse gas pollution – or, in some instances, whether or not to even address the issue –…
I went on a bit of a tear today on Twitter in support of mandatory voting, spurred somewhat by the discussion happening at the Canada 2020 conference in Ottawa. Voter…
Peter MacKay’s online spying Bill C-13 is not likely to pass constitutional muster and has drawn the ire of tens of thousands of Canadians for its privacy-invading implications. So why…
Originally posted on John Klein – Regina: A few of you may have caught me on the news today. The Regina Police Service had a meeting and my thank-you letter…
Germany has done something that the rest the developed world should copy: reducing post-secondary tuition fees to zero. Open and accessible education is key to making a richer and more…
NEW IMPROVED TERROR (ISIS) is just what Stephen Harper needs to get a vein for his junk from Alberta. Oil pipelines for all!
Customer service is becoming more Kafkaesque by the day Companies like to deflect problems with call-centre bureaucracy then use social media to show they’re just like us. They’re not Oscar…
Last week, one tech giant after the next cut ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), creating a mass exodus from the anti-government front group that routinely drafts legislation…
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Your news links for today: Rogers to CRTC: $28 Million Spent Weekly to Maintain Network; Market is Competitive – iPhone in Canada CRTC in ‘strange’ bind: Ottawa has already set…
#CRTC sides with Rogers in carriage dispute over Sun News Network http://t.co/tHOY8dRTud— Steve Faguy (@fagstein) October 2, 2014 #CRTC: Rogers “set-top-box data that showed that #SunNews consistently ranked at or…
I must print a “correction” to my piece in April when I reported that the SaskPower CCS plant was on time and online. The plant went online late last month,…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Cowichan Valley Financial Watchdogs Bill Dumont and Blaise Salmon have been ringing the bell regarding the disproportionate salaries and unjustifiable increases of senior management personnel at the…
