Campbell River Mirror: The making of an Internet activist
Portrait of the access campaigner as a young man. Article by Alistair Tayler for the Campbell River Mirror When 12-year-old Josh Tabish connected to the world through a dial up…
March 2015
The Homophobe and the Homeless
You might think that a church might be a safe place for homeless people to sleep. Considering how hard their lives are, and how little they have, and everything Jesus…
United Church of Canada Moderator to receive Craig Chaplin Memorial Award
The three Colleges of the Montreal School of Theology – comprised of The United Theological College, The Montreal Diocesan Theological College and The Presbyterian College, Montreal – are gathering together…
Would 7¢ fines deter improper acts of Canadians?
The National Energy Board penalized Enbridge Pipelines Inc. $16,000 in February and $264,000 in March 2015 for four separate incidents in western Canada. The Harper Government set the maximum penalty…
Charlie Smith’s Memo to Keith Baldrey: Democracy is Already Imperilled
Richard Hughes-Just another Political Blogger MSM legislative Global TV guy Keith Baldrey is a master on Twitter. He is not without a developed sense of distortion, as is clear in…
Finally, a Mulroney We Can Believe In.
David Mulroney served as a deputy minister in charge of Canada’s Afghanistan task force. It seems he learned a thing or two from the experience, enough to know that we’re…
A secular state respects religious differences, it does not seek to extinguish them
Loyola High School v. Quebec (Attorney General), 2015 SCC 12: The context before us — state regulation of religious schools — poses the question of how to balance robust protection…
Whacking Iran – Maybe Sooner Than You Might Think – The Warmonger Digest, vol. 2
It’s reported that the Saudis have given Israel a green light to overfly Saudi Arabia should Netanyahu decide to launch an attack on Iran. Jerusalem and Riyadh do not have…
What’s More Worrying? Bill C-51 or the Fact That So Many People Don’t Know What’s In It?
Far more disturbing than what’s in Bill C-51 is the fact that most Canadians don’t seem to care about it. I don’t know if they’re scared, or uninformed, or think…
What’s More Worrying? Bill C-51 or the Fact That So Many People Don’t Know What’s In It?
Far more disturbing than what’s in Bill C-51 is the fact that most Canadians don’t seem to care about it. I don’t know if they’re scared, or uninformed, or think…
Germany Alarmed at NATO’s (and America’s) Ginned Up Claims on Ukraine
A Warmonger and a Fearmonger Angela Merkel thinks that Germany (and the rest of the West) is being conned by NATO and the U.S. inflating the Russian threat to the…
Cities, Transit get too small a piece of tax dollar pie
Photo: Translink Many people think of Canada as a landscape of forests, mountains, water and ice, but the Canadian experience is fast becoming focused on glass and concrete. Our 2011…
Making Po’ People Vote
Barack Obama has been musing about the benefits of Australian-style, compulsory voting. Nothing would scare Republicans more than that sort of law, especially in this period of demographic change. The…
Netanyahu’s "Dog Whistle" Might Have Fetched the Hounds
Maybe some day Benjamin Netanyahu will be known as the founder of the state of Palestine. Strange things are happening. From the Sydney Morning Herald:Already the US is hinting that…
Apparently There’ll Be a Solar Eclipse Today. I’m Staying Juicy, or So I’m Told.
For some, maybe, but apparently not for us. Here’s what EnviroCan says is in store for us on the wet coast: Rain, at times heavy, continues. A series of storms…
Thomas Friedman: You Cannot Win that Dirty and Just Walk Away Like Nothing Happened.
In today’s New York Times Tom Friedman writes; The biggest losers in all of this, besides all the Israelis who did not vote for Netanyahu, are American Jews and non-Jews…
The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself – Unfortunately Fear is Winning
The fuel of the authoritarian state is always the same. It’s fear. Distorted, wildly inflated, even irrational, fear is the cheap and dirty solution to grasping, holding and perpetuating power.…
Spousal Immunity: You May Or May Not Tell The Courts What Your Spouse Tells You
Should common law spouses be exempt from testifying against their spouse in criminal cases? A recent article by the LawTime’s, Yamri Taddese provides some insight to this complex question. Recently…