Real Democracy and the Capture of Institutions
It is no longer enough to win over civil society, occupy public spaces, take to the streets, carry out symbolic actions, prevent evictions, or to win plebiscites. In Spain movements…
2014
Working Class Politics After the NDP
The issue that we can’t ignore this Labour Day is the disorientation in our movement’s politics. List the issues working people are most concerned about today – whether deindustrialization, unemployment…
Ontario promises to cut child poverty by 25 per cent
The Ontario government’s new five year poverty reduction strategy promises to cut child poverty by 25 per cent, end homelessness. The post Ontario promises to cut child poverty by 25…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Eve-Lyne Couturier discusses the rot in the state of Canadian labour negotiations, as workers outside of the 1% are being systematically denied any…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Your news links for today: PIAC releases backgrounder “Wireless Services in Canada: Why Canadians Deserve Better” – PIAC CRTC Releases 5-Minute Guide on How Canadians Can Participate in Proceedings –…
Hamas popularity surges
Whatever damage Israel did to Hamas during the recent war, it didn’t harm the group’s standing among the Palestinian people. Quite the contrary. According to a survey by the Palestinian…
Horgan Calls On Premier To Respect Teachers and our Public Educuation System
BC NDP Leader John Horgan VICTORIA – New Democrat leader John Horgan has written an open letter to Premier Christy Clark on the prolonged education dispute. In the letter, Horgan…
Away On Vaca
A period of light blogging will become even lighter as I head back to the Left Coast for a week and change with the family. Although I will try and…
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Translating Montaigne
With two printed versions of Montaigne’s essays (translations by Donald Frame and M. A. Screech) and a couple of online editions available to me, I thought I might offer some…
Donna Tiqui-Shebib for OWLC President
Now, I will preface this by saying that obviously I won't be able to vote for Donna, but I encourage all Liberal women attending the LPCO convention to support Donna…
Donna Tiqui-Shebib for OWLC President
Now, I will preface this by saying that obviously I won’t be able to vote for Donna, but I encourage all Liberal women attending the LPCO convention to support Donna…
Donna Tiqui-Shebib for OWLC President
Now, I will preface this by saying that obviously I won't be able to vote for Donna, but I encourage all Liberal women attending the LPCO convention to support Donna…
Donna Tiqui-Shebib for OWLC President
Now, I will preface this by saying that obviously I won’t be able to vote for Donna, but I encourage all Liberal women attending the LPCO convention to support Donna…
On active demolition
Shorter Fraser Institute: It has come to our attention that due to the Canada Pension Plan, the rabble might actually enjoy the benefit of high-return investments normally reserved to our…
How Many Friends Does He Have Left?
http://postalhistorycorner.blogspot.ca Jason Fekete reports in this morning’s Ottawa Citizen that the Harper government is stepping up its war on the Parliamentary Press Gallery: The federal Conservative party continues to fire…
TreeCanada Maps Its Impact
TreeCanada has planted around 80 million trees! They do this because trees make the world a better, healthier place for everybody. They also plant trees to rejuvenate school yards (ones…
A Prime Minister Hath No Honour In His Own Country
That paraphrase of a famous line from the Bible perhaps sums up the pitiable plight of Stephen Harper, gallant man of the world and fearless foe of evil on the…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, September 3, 2014: Tasers, Electro-shock in the courtroom and “Don’t do stupid stuff” Two California Superior Court…
Morning Line for Toronto: Ford at 10 – 1.
Despite the perverse forecasts of some purported pundits, Rob Ford is hardly likely to be supported for re-election as mayor by any large number of Torontonians. You can clean him…