Harper’s Police State Law
Much has been written of lateabout the proposed C-51 ‘anti terror’ bill and I will not attempt to dissect it here given that we already know that it will be…
February 2015
The Death Of Sun News
http://www.thestar.com/ Sun News is dead. A speciality channel which specialized in sound and fury, it passed quietly into the night. The whole project was ill conceived from the beginning. Christopher…
Stephen Harper and the Slow Melting of the Con Regime
Well I see that Stephen Harper has been spending more time in the tiny Con bastion of Quebec City.And it seems only appropriate that he should stage this photo-op at…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
It’s all about love, after all.
Return to Harperland and the Wonderful Death of Sun TV News
Well as you can imagine it wasn't easy saying goodbye to the balmy breezes of the Caribbean.After my amazing sailing adventure where I once again showed the sea that I…
Inoculating Against Science-Denialism
This op-ed appeared in The Ottawa Citizen on February 10, 2015. There’s an illness sweeping its way across North America, one which has long-troubled the scientific community and baffled even…
Political Waivers: Eve and Dimitri claimed by Team Trudeau
A version of this post has already appeared on iPolitics. Major league baseball’s spring training begins next week. My favourite sport came to mind as I was thinking about the…
Goddamnit, Toronto Star
Forum Research did a poll up for the Toronto Star, testing the political waters in Eglinton-Lawrence with Eve Adams on the ballot. The result was a healthy lead for current…
Oil and Gas Industry Requesting Massive Tax Cuts for LNG Terminals in Advance of 2015 Federal Budget
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) is asking the Harper government to consider reclassifying liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals as ‘manufacturing assets’ to provide tax breaks to companies struggling…
Oil and Gas Industry Requesting Massive Tax Cuts for LNG Terminals in Advance of 2015 Federal Budget
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) is asking the Harper government to consider reclassifying liquid natural gas (LNG) terminals as ‘manufacturing assets’ to provide tax breaks to companies struggling…
On unclear motivations
Shorter Peter MacKay: We should tremble in our boots at the possibility that the people plotting a mass shooting in Halifax might have been susceptible to motivation by religious fervour.…
Ed Broadbent and Roy Romanow Call For Strong Opposition To Anti Terror Bill–Mulcair Had Better Listen Up
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger In recent posts on ‘Cowichan Conversations’ and on ‘Facebook and Twitter’ I have been critical of the Federal NDP’s failure to take the gloves off and go…
Feb. 14: Iimpressive quotations to suck us in.
The TandT edition of Friday, Feb. 13, has a big story about the ranking of New Brunswick’s health care system. Front page stuff. And it comes straight from the expensive…
Rethinking social protections in the age of contractors
The job market is changing rapidly. While most workers of our parents’ generation could have reasonably expected to spend their entire working careers in permanent full-time jobs with one or…
How Much Do I Not Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways
These pictures are courtesy of Press Progress: One hopes that the entire crew will find their hearts broken come October. Recommend this Post
What Will be Left When We’re Done?
Mosul, Tikrit and Fallujah. They’re Iraqi cities now occupied and controlled by ISIS. Mosul is Iraq’s second largest city. Tikrit is the home town of Saddam Hussein. Fallujah is the…
The Terror We Give Is the Terror We Get
Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Daniel St. Pierre We fire missiles from the sky that incinerate families huddled in their houses. They incinerate a pilot cowering in a cage.…
The World of Our Grandchildren
Photo by Andrew Rusk Jacobin is proud to feature an interview with journalist David Barsamian and Professor Noam Chomsky. In it, Chomsky explains the roots of ISIS and why the…
The Legacy of Ottawa: The Gutting of Canada
When Stephen Harper’s spinners start pontificating about his steady hand on the tiller over the past decade or so, think on this: Is Canada’s economy really that much better off…
Was Ottawa “Terror” Arrest Timed to Support Repressive New Legislation?
Photo by Saffron Blaze When the RCMP announced an Ottawa anti-terrorism arrest last week, the timing could not have been better for a federal government that appears to thrive on…