2014 Municipal Election Endorsements
Toronto Mayor – Olivia Chow Brant Mayor – Roy Haggart Toronto City Council Ward 1 – Idil Burale Ward 2 – Andray Domise Ward 9 – Maria Augimeri Ward 13…
2014
A ‘Yes Vote’ Will Mean That Island Savings Will Cease To Exist–’VOTE NO’
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,…
Head to head: Do you need social media to win a political campaign?
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…
Some lever. Some fulcrum
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…
New column day
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…
Oct. 25: Patriotism: the last refuge of a scoundrel
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…
What’s at stake in the four Oct. 27 by-elections?
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…
Tonight on the Danforth! SFH for Aboriginal Legal Services!
And it’s in Toronto-Danforth – think about that. Hmmmm.
Saturday Morning Links
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…
The Ottawa shootings and "the race to innocence"
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…
Leadership
Filed under: Cartoons (Single Panel), Making fun of Harper
We Could All Be Joseph K.
“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…
On solving things
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…
Jihadist or lunatic?
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,…
Down For A Bit
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,…
How the Hair hastens havoc.
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…
NDP MLA Bill Routley Takes Cowichan Family’s Desperate Pleas to the Legislature
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…
Musical interlude
Black Box – Everybody Everybody
Ottawa Shootings: CNN fear-mongering an insult to Canadians
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…