The BC NDP Leadership Race Is Rigged To Protect Status Quo
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I just Facebook liked Lana Popham for BC NDP Leader. Now before you assess my support for her, it is beyond that. The BC NDP needs a…
2014
400 peaceful Keystone XL pipeline protesters arrested at White House
by: Obert Madondo Nearly 400 youth were arrested on March 2 outside the White House during the XL Dissent, a non-violent, student-led action to stop TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. The…
Mardi Gras: Beads, Bands…And BP Oil
More than one million tourists have flocked to the South for Mardi Gras, and hundreds of thousands of those revelers have settled in for a few days along the Gulf…
Another PC MLA abandons Redford for the Harper Tories
TweetAnother Progressive Conservative MLA is about to jump into the federal arena. Edmonton-McClung PC MLA David Xiao will announce this week that he will seek the Conservative Party nomination in…
It Is Time To Risk Democracy
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor “Politics is the pursuit of power; a politician who says he won’t consider seizing it in the circumstances available is either lying (to you or himself)…
Necessity
R. v. Mazerolle, 2013 NBPC 21: 3. This defence must be restricted to the rare cases where the action was “involuntary”. It must be “strictly controlled and scrupulously limited”, as…
More than 2,000 people make a point about the Redford Government in deeply chilled downtown Edmonton
Some of the more than 2,000 people who protested the policies of the Redford Conservative Government in Edmonton’s Sir Winston Churchill Square today. When I was a cub reporter at…
Saturday Photo: Thinking about Travels
Many years, the sap has already started to run in the maple trees by now. Not the case this year, but people around us are getting itchy feet, thinking about…
C-23: The Theft Of Democracy Part VII
I’ve more or less gone as far with analyzing the text of C-23 myself at this point in time. I’m sufficiently convinced that this legislation is nothing more than an…
Internet Censorship World Map
In developed countries, it’s easy to take the Internet for granted. It’s such a big part of our lives, and access is so readily available, that imagining life without the…
Is This Where Ukraine’s Revolution Ends?
Simmering beneath the rise of the pro-E.U. Ukrainian government in Kiev and the pro-Russia faction of the Crimea has been the question of the loyalty of Ukraine’s armed forces. With…
Justin Trudeau: Just another “Con” man?
Justin Trudeau addresses a progressive think tank in Washington, DC (photo: Chip Somodevllla/Getty) Justin Trudeau wants to project a young, fresh face, representing all the good things that Canadians want…
We Stand on the Brink of Global Instability and There’s No Running from It
Maybe we should rethink our rush to extract and export as much of Canada’s fossil fuel reserves as possible. Maybe we should give some thought to the domestic needs of…
Ontario Budget Debate Ignores Taxes and Billions Transferred to For-Profit Corporations
Ontario’s budget debate may be high profile, but it misses two essential points. With the NDP signaling NO TAX INCREASES (on the middle class) a serious discussion about taxes, particularly…
Reading: A Canadian tragedy… or not?
The map above might show the making of a serious tragedy for Western and especially Canadian culture. It indicates in colour which nations read the most. Yellow is the second…
March 2014 Bits and Bites: Status of Cobb and Clifford
What does it say about ol' Sebastian here that he continually "likes" his own posts on Facebook? Yep, Craig Cobb has pleaded guilty to one charge of felony count terrorizing…
Northern Gateway: The unlikely pipeline
The 3-member Joint Review Panel for the Northern Gateway pipeline overruled 98% opposition to the proposal The approval of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline by the National Energy Board’s Joint Review…