Los Indignados to Podemos
Filed under: Austerity, Crisis, Socialism, Southern Europe Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Podemos, Spain
February 2015
Syriza’s tremendous path to power
VersoBooks.com. The Associate Professor of Comparative Political Analysis at the Athens Panteion University’s Department of History and Political Science and author of In the Name of Social Democracy assesses Syriza’s…
Guest Blog by James Robb – Using the internet to bring democracy closer to the people
Thanks to Icelandic resident James Robb for contributing this guest piece. Shortly after I moved to Iceland, my good friend and former colleague, Helgi Gunnarsson, who is now an MP…
Feb. 6: meanwhile…
I’m happy to say the Irving press has enough ignorance and silliness in it today so that I should have enough for a column about it tomorrow. Meanwhile, let’s cover…
How the heck did you lose that one, Andrea?
Credit: Sudbury Star I will admit from the top here: I actually expected Glenn Thibeault and the Ontario Liberals to go down in flames in Sudbury last night. That opinion…
Canada’s Public Companies Should Disclose Political Spending: Report
Unlike the U.S., where the wellspring of cash flooding federal elections is reaching a new level of absurdity (try $5 billion), Canada has kept federal political campaigns relatively grounded by…
How Canada’s net neutrality rules are some of the best in the world
This article was originally published on the Huffington Post. Yesterday, U.S. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced his agency’s commitment to the strongest possible rules to prevent telecommunications companies from forcing…
Provincial-Federal and Regional Authorities Ignoring Threat of Landslides and More Flooding in Cowichan Bay
Richard HughesPolitical Blogger It is shocking that neither the Cowichan Valley Regional or the BC Government officials are taking the required actions to protect the residents and their properties below…
Stephen Harper: Incremental fascism? You be the judge
“Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:”…
Hey, It’s Friday. The Perfect Day to Fend Off ALS.
Everyone knows that ALS, a.k.a. Lou Gherig disease, is one of the worst afflictions you could possibly get. Which is why there’s good news, hope on the horizon, so belly…
Stephen Harper: government of thugs
The current Canadian government is unlike any that has ever come before it and, let’s hope for the sake of Canada, any that is to come after. The Conservative government…
The 28-Pages that Could Condemn the House of Saud and Liberate the West.
The Gulf princes and sheikhs, especially the House of Saud, have been very successful in ducking scrutiny over their role in launching, funding and covering for every Sunni terrorist group…
frustrations with technology, or, when upgrades are really downgrades, or, give me back a previous gmail app
I’ve really been enjoying my Nexus 7 tablet. I dislike that tablets have become the norm, and in a perfect world I’d use a desktop, a netbook, and a tablet.…
Even the Globe and Mail is Alarmed Over Harper’s Surveillance-Anti Terror Bill C-51
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Liberal and NDP response to PM Stephen Harper’s far reaching attempt to decimate Canada’s civil rights and privacy laws left a lot to be desired. Justin…
A Breath of Humanity and Compassion from the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Canada weighed in on the side of the terminally ill in a decision that’s bound to have Big C and small c conservatives seething. The Supreme…
Sudbury By-Election Shows the NDP in Eclipse
Wow. What the heck just happened here? Apparently – the unthinkable. Watching the #Sudbury hashtag on Twitter last night, which was trending nationally after the polls closed at 9 PM…
Casting Bones and Reading Entrails
John Baird has resigned from the Harper cabinet and from his seat in Parliament. It seems no one knew about it much more than 24-hours before the public announcement. The…
Banging the War Drums
If you thought you had heard the last of insanely bellicose Anders Fogh “Foggy” Rasmussen when his term as NATO secretary-general lapsed, you were wrong. He’s back and he’s talking…
January Job Gain Part-time, Self-employment
As usual, the monthly Labour Force Survey numbers headline seems to tell a different story than the underlying numbers. According to the LFS, Canada added 35,000 jobs in January. A…