February 2015
There’s Reason To Be Apathetic
http://www.personal.psu.edu/ Robin Sears writes that two recent incidents speak volumes about why Canadian voters are apathetic: What is a first-time potential voter to make of the nonsense from Premier Kathleen…
Jason Kenney’s Sorry and Surrealistic Terrorist Game
Well let nobody say I didn't warn them. I predicted Jason Kenney would be the worst possible Defence Minister for these troubled times.I knew that sexually repressed religious fanatic would…
The Trouble with Dijsselbloem | Jacobin
The Trouble with Dijsselbloem | Jacobin. by Pepijn Brandon Ever since his infamous half-handshake with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister and temporary chair of…
The Verdun Auditorium
Volunteered at an event today in the reception area on the second floor of the Dennis Savard Arena which is an annex of the Verdun Auditorium the former having been…
Life In Scarborough: Mormons In The Storm
Waiting for a bus that had got stuck behind a line of plows this afternoon, way out in Scarborough, I ran into a couple of Mormons who were using the…
Impeach the Prime Minister
Stephen Harper has lost the right to govern Canada. He has deliberately exposed the country to great peril and left the nation and our people vulnerable to war and terror…
Feb.21: Donne-moi un break!
Saturday’s headline is about a man who got sentenced for threatening an RCMP officer. This is the big, flash story of the day? Worse, it’s also a story that has…
True Twitter story
I tweeted this, so some guy tweeted back this. I read it fast, so I tweeted this. Someone tweeted I was a partisan apologist. When I first read it, I…
New York Times–The Trip Treatment–Psychedelics Revisited
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger This New York Times feature is a clinical back to the future psychedelic trip in length and content. It is well worth the read and for those…
British satire continues
I enjoy Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe, a BBC Two satirical program now in a third series. BBC TV is not readily available in North America without use of a proxy…
How Greece Got Outmaneuvered – The New Yorker
How Greece Got Outmaneuvered – The New Yorker. By John Cassidy To the surprise of nobody except a few alarmists, the finance ministers of the European Union reached a deal…
Smoking = Stupidity
I don’t know how to sugar coat this in some politically-correct, sensitive, caring way that doesn’t overtly offend anyone, but if you haven’t already figured this out by now, here…
Greek Bailout Extension Deal Represents a “Significant Retreat” by the European Authorities, CEPR Co-Director Says | Press Releases
Greek Bailout Extension Deal Represents a “Significant Retreat” by the European Authorities, CEPR Co-Director Says | Press Releases. Washington, D.C.- A deal reached between the Greek government and European authorities…
Greece deal is first step on the road back to austerity | Business | The Guardian
Philip Inman – The Guardian The rightwing orthodoxy that dominates thinking in Brussels has asserted itself over the hapless Greeks. A deal that allows the eurozone policymakers, the International Monetary…
The Assassination of Greece
Photo by Guillaume Piolle Introduction The Greek government is currently locked in a life and death struggle with the elite which dominate the banks and political decision-making centres of the…
Ralph Nader On Harper’s Politics Of Fear
The following is a letter that the iconic American activist Ralph Nader has written to Stephen Harper regarding his ‘war on terror.’ Following the letter is a video of an…
Bangin’ that Old War Drum, Again.
Maybe it’s because they’re still smarting from getting their asses handed to them in Iraq and Afghanistan, maybe not. Either way it’s getting a bit embarrassing listening to Western military…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Danyaal Raza highlights how Canadians can treat an election year as an opportunity to discuss the a focus on social health with candidates…