Cartoon: Canadian surveillance at the airport
Check out this incredible image from Brian Gable at The Globe and Mail. Please LIKE and SHARE and spread the word about this mass, unaccountable spying. read more
2014
Rewatching The Ed Sullivan Show, 50 years later
How can I explain the impact of The Beatles, in particular their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964 — 50 years ago today? Here’s one way.…
Charter of Values and Québec criticism
Editor's note: this post was submitted by Jared Milne. The debate over Québec's secular Charter of Values has been a heated one. The proposed Charter would restrict public servants from…
Charter of Values and Québec criticism
Editor’s note: this post was submitted by Jared Milne. The debate over Québec’s secular Charter of Values has been a heated one. The proposed Charter would restrict public servants from…
Charter of Values and Québec criticism
Editor's note: this post was submitted by Jared Milne. The debate over Québec's secular Charter of Values has been a heated one. The proposed Charter would restrict public servants from…
A World Standing on a Precipice
The global freshwater crisis has worsened markedly over the past decade and in the most hard-pressed areas the response has been to ramp up the depletion of dwindling groundwater reserves.…
Syrian situation.
The civil war in Syria is an ongoing tragedy which the world needs to pay attention to. The killing and brutality continues, there are more Syrian refugees in Jordan than…
Struck Dumb Or Plain Dumb?
As the Harperites have abandoned veterans, cut postal service to seniors and insisted that everyone must bow in awe of the deficit, the silence of the Tory backbench has been…
West Virginia: Water safety
This can happen anywhere. Very scary with all the fossil fuels being transported by rail, trucks and pipes.
Charter of Values and Québec criticism
Editor’s note: this post was written by Jared Milne. The debate over Québec’s secular Charter of Values has been a heated one. The proposed Charter would restrict public servants from…
Cowboy Stephen Harper and Comrade Joseph Stalin
Do they have something in common? Any similarities?
myth-busting and truth-telling: challenging the govt’s claims about refugees
The Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers has a great page that counters every single one of the Harper Government’s statements lies about refugee claims in Canada. At the site, click…
Let the games begin. Please.
What do ballet, the opening ceremonies at the Sochi Winter Games and Russian winters have in common? They are too long, too dreary and too boring. You almost expected to…
With Apologies, Another Post On Tim Hudak
I have to admit that I grow increasingly tired of and bored with young Tim Hudak, the boy who would be Ontario’s next premier. Yet because his duplicitous tactics and…
Harvard and Brown Are Wrong To Reject Calls To Divest From Fossil Fuels
This article was originally published in the February 17th issue of The Nation and is republished with permission. Read the full text of the editorial here. by James Lawrence Powell…
Water-bombing a tractor trailer #nlpoli
Okay so it isn’t politics, but it is still cool. This happened last July. -srbp-
The (UN)Fair Elections Act
As is usual with so many of the Bills proposed by the Harper Regime the ‘Fair’ Elections Act has so many changes buried in the fine print that it is…
Harperland: The Silence and the Resistance
As I said in my last post, we have lived so long in his depraved darkness we have become numbed to his democratic atrocities.Or paralyzed like some small animal caught…