Mark Steyn Hires A Spy
As my readers may know, conservative political commentator Mark Steyn is in some legal trouble, having gotten himself sued by climate scientist Mike Mann. While we should be careful to…
As my readers may know, conservative political commentator Mark Steyn is in some legal trouble, having gotten himself sued by climate scientist Mike Mann. While we should be careful to…
In his fragile mental state it must have seemed like a natural transition. The beast within him must have howled.For three days he'd play Mother Theresa or Mother Harper at…
The Guardian's Media Talk is the king of media podcasts. And it is dead. As I wrote on The Guardian site in 2010: I love your podcast. It is like…
Financialization and the Collapse of European Social Democracy – Costas Lapavitsas on Reality Asserts Itself 7/8. Filed under: Europe, Social Democracy Tagged: Europe, financialization, social democracy
A postal worker searches for David Climenhaga’s lost letter from the minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Ray Speaker. Nope. That’s not it … Nothing’s turned up just yet. Below:…
I had been seeing Ontario Conservative’s Million Jobs Plan adds on websites for weeks. Some times I would even click on them knowing it would mean money would be transferred…
Big Wreck – Albatross
Google just gave me an other hundred bucks for all the ads on my blog (hosted by Google but written by me). I have to admit I prefer microblogging on…
Originally posted on Greek Left Review: The European Parliament elections saw a number of smaller parties with broadly Eurosceptic or anti-establishment platforms do well across Europe. Jonathan White writes that…
Savage capitalism is back – and it will not tame itself | David Graeber | Comment is free | The Guardian. Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York’s Times Square.…
Early China coal mine When it comes to global warming, coal is the biggest culprit in the warming of the earth. China is taking giant strides to reduce its need…
A Quebec man convicted of manslaughter of his daughter gets 60 days in jail. You’ve read it right and on top of this ‘gentle’ sentence, the man is to serve…
There is an unspoken rule in American politics: when you have bad news to deliver, do it on a Friday afternoon. This helps to ensure that fewer people will see…
Tomorrow morning, our own Steve Anderson is testifying before a Parliamentary Committee weighing the merits of spying Bill C-13. Unfortunately, the government has signalled that it’s not interested in hearing…
Five years ago, I thought, my goodness, there must be a large number of Mexicans immigrating into Canada. I was hearing and seeing Spanish speaking people working all over Mississauga…
As Canada’s spying agencies gain more and more access to private information, our privacy watchdogs are being restricted. Isn’t it time for the government to do more to defend Canadians’…
“It strikes me as a bizarre nomination – like putting a fox in charge of chicken security at the hen house.” Former Federal Privacy Commissioner doesn’t mince words on the…
Eleven grassroots citizens groups are demanding that Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper allow them access to meetings he is holding about a proposed special legislative session to address fracking. Gov. Hickenlooper…
That is, if you have a fundamentalist cast of mind like Pastor Matthew Hagee, who says this whole climate change thing is ordained by God, and to pay no attention…