A Study in Tyranny (Part 1)
“Message Control and Vetting” A guest post by Pamela Mac NeilCanadians for the first time in our history must confront the menacing truth, that our Prime Minister is a dictator…
March 2015
“The enemy of my enemy is …”
There is something that needs to be understood by people afraid of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL): It is neither a state nor a country. It…
The Other Big Reason Stephen Harper Wants to Bomb Syria
One of the things that horrifies me the most about the living nightmare that is Stephen Harper's Canada, is that so many have lived for so long in his depraved…
Canada’s Charitable Law Urgently Needs Reforming: New UVic Report
Attachment Size Modernizing-Canadian-Charitable-Law.pdf 1.84 MB A report released today by the University of Victoria’s Environmental Law Centre calls for sweeping reform of Canadian charitable law in line with other jurisdictions…
The Labour Export Policy: A Case Study of the Philippines
The Labour Export Policy: A Case Study of the Philippines
The Labour Export Policy: A Case Study of the Philippines
The Labour Export Policy: A Case Study of the Philippines
The Labour Export Policy: A Case Study of the Philippines
The Labour Export Policy: A Case Study of the Philippines
The ongoing saga of the remittance economy #nlpoli
A downturn in the economy in Saskatchewan and Alberta caused by falling oil prices will affect Newfoundland and Labrador. This is hardly surprising. Regular readers will know the phenomenon as…
The Con Porkers and the Disgraceful Muzzling of Elizabeth May
Over the years Stephen Harper's Cons have turned our parliament into a heaving grunting monstrosity, a fascist circus, a political pig sty.They cut off debate, they answer any question about…
NF with Ian Jessop, CFAX1070, March 24, 2015
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In this week’s Hill Times: ten reasons why the Grits and Dippers won’t dance
These are some of the things that happen every four years: leap year, a total solar eclipse, the Olympics, and the FIFA World Cup. Oh, and debate—ad infinitum, ad nauseam—about…
Who Says a Better World is Impossible?
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. Cars, air travel, space exploration, television, nuclear power, high-speed computers, telephones, organ transplants, prosthetic body parts… At various times these were all…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Entwined cats.
The Falklands – Again?
The British government is planning to reinforce its garrison on the Falklands Islands out of concern of another attempt by Argentina to take the islands by force. The south American…
A few thoughts about my union…
I belong to a public sector union. It isn’t a huge Union, not the scale of PSAC, PIPSC, CUPE and the like. There are around 12,000 members, I think; the…
Toronto’s Plan to Push Out the Homeless
Photo by Ivaan Kotulsky The Mayor’s Office in Toronto is today occupied by a much slicker operation than it was during the years of dysfunctional, bigoted buffoonery that unfolded under…
Steering for a Rocky Reef
During the 2011 election, the Conservatives took to incessantly telling us that their’s was the steady hand on the tiller that we should trust to steer us through the stormy…