Britain, Gay Marriage, and the Tragic Legacy of Homophobia
I almost wish Margaret Thatcher was still alive so she could have seen the rainbow flag flying over government buildings in London today.Because her infamous Section 28 anti-gay law, which…
2014
Les raisons pourquoi un anglophone va voter pour le PQ
J’habite à Québec pour une bonne boute, mais j’ai jamais essayer d’écrire en français…donc svp excusez me plusieurs fautes pendant que j’explique les raisons pourquoi un “tête carré” va voter…
Les raisons pourquoi un anglophone va voter pour le PQ
J'habite à Québec pour une bonne boute, mais j'ai jamais essayer d'écrire en français...donc svp excusez me plusieurs fautes pendant que j'explique les raisons pourquoi un "tête carré" va voter…
Les raisons pourquoi un anglophone va voter pour le PQ
J’habite à Québec pour une bonne boute, mais j’ai jamais essayer d’écrire en français…donc svp excusez me plusieurs fautes pendant que j’explique les raisons pourquoi un “tête carré” va voter…
Gay Straight Alliances.
What if I told you there was a tool to use in our schools that could drop heterosexual male suicide rates by 50%? And that can reduce by more than…
In Sunday’s Sun: he taunts us
He haunts us still. Remember that? That line – “he haunts us still” – is the very first line on the very first page of a terrific book about Pierre…
Don’t read this, it’s none of your business
In comments on the preceding article, a subject emerged that was apart from the beginning one but is worthy of separate examination. This is another iceberg type situation: much does…
Saturday night: Harps
This is the Asylum Street Spankers with Harp Rumble. This will slow things down in style. Billy Branch, Carey Bell and Phil Wiggins perform Blues Harp Blues. And this will…
What Have we Learned From the Financial Crisis? Part 4: Bernard Vallageas
What follows are comments from a roundtable discussion held at the University of Ottawa on February 28, organized by Mario Seccareccia, and which featured participation from Marc Lavoie, Louis-Philippe Rochon,…
End of Winter Blahs….
A combination of sick grandkids who share their microbes with their grandparents and my own interesting health sitautioin (cataract surgery on Monday) means that there haven’t been much in the…
Is Omnibus legislation a Conservative Disease?
The following data visualization shows the total number of pages of legislation drafted to implement budgets tabled from 1994 to 2014. It also shows the average per year for the…
Ukraine: The Solution is at hand
Foreign Minister Lavrov – the man with the answer Within a week or so the outlines of a solution to the Ukraine predicament will become clear to all. As I…
Harper’s fiscal straight-jacket: $44-billion/yr in reckless tax cuts
Neo-con economist Stephen Gordon has nothing but praise for Harper’s “starve the beast” hidden agenda. He boiled it down to a 4 step process: Recklessly cut taxes. Manufacture a budget…
A big mug of tea for a Saturday afternoon
Discovering that Paper is great for quick choices without a lot of forethought about how things are going to be done. Still, Procreate is vaster, subtler and with more options.…
Canada’s transformation under neoliberalism
Even before that transformation began, Canada was hardly a model of inclusion, equality, and democracy. But in the latter years of the postwar expansion, Canada progressed both economically and socially.…
Game Review: Long Live The Queen
This is basically a choose your own adventure with a basic skills system attached to it. The concept is deceivingly simply, but the game itself is devilishly complicated. What impressed…
Is Your Job Bullshit?
Work should be liberating, not enslaving! It’s Saturday so it’s the weekend so you’re not working. But that’s just an incorrect hypothesis. Lots of people are working this weekend. In…
March 29: It’s official…….
…based on regularity of appearance and length of stories, the most important event in New Brunswick, perhaps in the world so far in this year is the quarrel over recreation…
The PCs scorched earth policy on Alison Redford
When Vladimir Lenin led the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, his right hand man was Leon Trotsky. When Lenin and Trotsky had a falling out — never a good thing in…
Climate change is having impact across the globe
Residents walk across the frozen Songhua River in front of smoke stacks at Jiamusi, in China’s northeast Heilongjiang province Sunday Dec. 4, 2005. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) | ASSOCIATED PRESS This…