Just A Reminder About The Regime Under Which We Chafe
In case you missed the story of yet another Harper-led CRA threat against charities that object to the regime’s policies of environmental despoliation, you can read about it here, here,…
2014
the so-called "y.a. debate" rages on, but doesn’t a debate have two sides?
In June of this year, Slate ran a now-infamous piece called “Against YA,” in which Ruth Graham argued that adults shouldn’t read young-adult fiction, and should be embarrassed if they…
Toronto’s Future Isn’t Written Yet
If you make to the end of the Back to the Future movie trilogy, past the flying cars and cowboys the last scene has a sage bit of wisdom to…
New York Times on John Tory: “uniquely charmless,” “rich white man,” “entitled,” “old WASP elite”
Quote: “The two front-runners are Doug Ford — Rob’s brother — and John Tory, with Mr. Tory holding a narrow lead in recent polls. They have indulged in the uniquely…
The Journey to the End of the Con Regime
I was watching them make a music video on an old schooner in the harbour yesterday, when I suddenly realized that in exactly one year, if Stephen Harper doesn't break…
Meaningless measuring for meaningless media.
When you take a poll to help sell newspapers, how serious can you be? Does the poll even matter if it restates the obvious? It is giving the entire business…
I Voted Out Of Fear Last Night
But I’m OK with it. And I followed my usual tradition of supporting the person whose name most reminded me of a terrorist for Councillor. So in that at least…
Oil and the budget #nlpoli
Lots of people are wondering what the changes to the price of oil will do to the provincial budget. It will have an impact: no doubt about that. But trying…
Transportation After Fossil Fuels: A Decade Away?
Once upon a time, I rode the maglev at the Japan pavilion at Expo 86. Since then, I’ve come to see that that was the Commodore Vic 20 of high…
Politics gets NIMBY in the Edmonton-Whitemud by-election
TweetThe phrase “all politics is local” has been used many times to describe voters who might shy away from trying to restructure health care or environmental policy but are passionate…
Regina Loves Pits
We can’t have just one!
Ice Loss Sends Alaskan Temperatures Soaring
This is a guest post by Alex Kirby originally published by Climate News Network. If you doubt that parts of the planet really are warming, talk to residents of Barrow,…
Regina Women’s History Month #womenhistory
October is Women’s History Month. This year I was invited to the event at the Conexus Arts Centre, and I’d suggest you check it out next October.
Chretien reminds us of the noble role Canada once played in the world before Stephen Harper…
There has been much self-righteous and misguided criticism of Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau for his decision to vote against Canadian combat action against the Islamic State in Iraq and the…
Harper’s new fish farm laws would open floodgates to waste dumping
The following is a letter by salmon farming critic and Common Sense Canadian contributor DC Reid to Prime Minister Stephen Harper on his government’s proposed gutting of aquaculture regulations, which…
Skepticism Too Easily Slides Into Cynicism
Years spent in the media, plus decades of independent practice as a writer and social critic honed my native skepticism into a protective psychological barrier against a wide range of…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment 2014-10-19 16:38:00
TWO WORDS: RICKY RAY Argos in trouble when best player is kicker This dreadful season of the orphan Argonauts muddles on with little or nothing to feel right about. TORONTOSUN.COM…