Left Over 2015-02-24 12:32:11
Privatized playground at North Vancouver’s Cousteau International French School angers parent Cousteau International French School has leased the grounds of former Fromme elementary school CBC News Posted: Feb 24, 2015…
February 2015
Bouquets of Gray 2015-02-24 11:45:00
A friend of a friend forwarded me a copy of the ruling in Dr. Dawg’s defamation case against Roger Smith and Freedominion. For those who need a reminder, Dawg had…
Guardian exposes domestic ‘black site’ in U.S.
It really says something about the ‘normalization’ of extrajudicial methods to “get the bad guy” when a major newspaper can run a story about domestic anti-terror ‘black sites’ being used…
Bell’s dragging a university student, single mother, and seniors’ org to court to make the Internet more like cable TV. Yuck.
Bell Mobility is taking Canadians to court so they can continue inflating the cost of competing apps like Netflix by up to 800%. If they win, they’ve asked that a…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Your news links for today: Controversial anti-terror bill “passes” (second reading in the House) – Toronto Sun Do Canadians realize that if Bill C-51 passes… it won’t just be the…
Setting priorities
I’ve written about politics influenced by a captured and compliant press. This is from a helpful Canadian Press article published by Macleans Magazine weeks before the last BC election: …A…
Syriza buys four months of breathing room
Belatedly, here is an article I wrote on Greece’s agreement with the Eurozone for Ricochet. It focuses on the next four months with their opportunities and pitfalls. Given that the…
ISIL: the cancer on contemporary Islam.
They call themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. What they are is vultures tearing at the heart of modern Islam. They are brigands and murderers, thieves and…
More Warnings About Bill C-51
H/t The Globe and Mail Increasingly disenchanted Globe readers weigh in with their thoughts: Re Kenney Spurns Calls To Increase Security Oversight (Feb. 23): The Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC)…
Marx, Darwin and Machiavelli
What do these three men – three of the world’s greatest thinkers – have in common? Science? Economics? Politics? Their impact on culture and society? Their foresight or insight? Their…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Nora Loreto rightly challenges the instinct to respond to tragedy with blame in the name of “responsibility”, rather than compassion in the…
Look Somewhere Else
http://www.cepec-tortues.fr/ Stephen Harper talks tough. But when things get tough, Harper hides. Andrew Mitrovica writes: The prime minister, simply put, is a nasty piece of work. His every act and…
Highly-scientific poll on C-51: vote now! Vote often!
Here is Bill C-51. Here is a bunch of commentary about it. And here is your chance to pick the party with the position you like the best! poll by…
The York Tunnel Mystery: Detective Kinsella to the rescue
You’ve read about this, I’m sure. So, why didn’t the supposedly-expert authorities do this? Question: why didn't cops keep tunnel intact and under surveillance, instead of filling it in and…
Has Canada Become a Post-Democratic Petro State?
Tell me it isn’t so Joe. No can do. Sadly, over the last 40 years Canada has morphed into a mere shadow of its former self, a nation where prosperity…
IPCC Chair Rajendra K Pachauri Steps Down
The right thing to do, whatever the truth of the sexual harassment charges against him. And in this case it was starting to look like there might have been some…
Very Little Separates The Parties On Bill C-51
A twitter argument I had with NDP MP for Newton – North Delta Jinny Sims: She retreated then, knowing perhaps that her ass had been kicked. But the bottom line…
The Unsustainability Problem #nlpoli
The annual budget consultation farce started on Monday with a couple of sessions. This year the provincial government has turned out a budget simulator that is supposed “to illustrate the…
Stephen Harper and the Days of Drums and Dummies
He's rushing his dangerously flawed anti-terrorist bill through the House of Commons, to the machine gun beat of a fascist drum.Bill C-51, the government's proposed anti-terror law, has passed second…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment 2015-02-24 03:36:00
SPOTLIGHT The Lemuria myth S. CHRISTOPHER JAYAKARAN How it permeated the Tamil tradition through folklore and writings as the lost continent of Kumari. BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT THE LEMURIAN AS conceived…