Who’s Afraid Of Elizabeth May?
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ In a recent poll, Canadians made clear that they want to see Elizabeth May in the election debates. However, that doesn’t mean that they’ll get to see her. In…
April 2015
MLK
Since I was a kid – since this day in 1972, in fact, when I started writing a daily journal – I have always taken note of April 4, and…
We’ve been goosed by Uncle Joe.
Once more the Canadian parliament has been downplayed by the Harper Conservatives. Even as simple an announcement as the date of bringing down the next budget is moved away from…
Stephen Harper and the Summer of Protest
At a time when Stephen Harper is trying to drag us into his monstrous darkness.By using fear as a weapon against his own people, whipping up war fever for crass…
Is Stephen Harper Planning to Conscript Young Canadians?
There's a strange and disturbing story circulating quietly on the internet. It was forwarded to me by someone I trust.And it seems to show that the CBC wrote a story…
Chris Hedges Calls Steve Harper A Pawn Or Puppet Of Corporations
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Vancouver Observer has been a most welcome edition to the media mix in the Vancouver market and beyond. They prove, dig and unapologetically provide us with…
Musical interlude
Nadia Ali, Starkillers & Alex Kenji – Pressure (Alesso Remix)
Chag pesach sameach, more or less
I tried to take my 80 year old mother to synagogue for Passover because I thought she’d like it. The first synagogue we tried in Kensington Market was closed –…
Chag pesach sameach, more or less
I tried to take my 80 year old mother to synagogue for Passover because I thought she'd like it. The first synagogue we tried in Kensington Market was closed -…
Chag pesach sameach, more or less
I tried to take my 80 year old mother to synagogue for Passover because I thought she’d like it. The first synagogue we tried in Kensington Market was closed –…
Tracking Alberta political party fundraising from 2004 to 2014
Following last week’s release of Alberta’s political party financial disclosure reports for 2014, I thought it would be interesting to look at the history of political donations in our province…
April 3: A story that isn’t in the Irvng press..
The story below is not by me. It’s a copy of an e mail I received. And it comes before the blog because my computer says it does. After losing…
Brigette DePape and the youth insurgency against Harper
Why game-changing activist Brigette DePape’s Get Out the Youth Vote tour is a much-needed youth democratic insurgency against Stephen Harper. The post Brigette DePape and the youth insurgency against Harper…
Climate Change is Not a Left-Right Issue
This is a guest post by Kai Nagata, energy and democracy director at the Dogwood Initiative. Climate change shouldn’t be a left-wing versus right-wing political issue. I might take some…
Religion is a drug best served with moderation and skepticism…
On this Good Friday, when all North Americans (and many others in the West) get a statutory day off – a privilege not extended to any other faiths, yet some…
The REAL Problem with Jim Prentice’s 2015 Budget
The “historic” Prentice budget is an historic missed opportunity. Instead of simply and boldly correcting a regressive tax system that relied too much on nonrenewable resource revenue to subsidize current…
The REAL Problem with Jim Prentice’s 2015 Budget
The "historic" Prentice budget is an historic missed opportunity. Instead of simply and boldly correcting a regressive tax system that relied too much on nonrenewable resource revenue to subsidize current…
The REAL Problem with Jim Prentice’s 2015 Budget
We should all welcome Premier Prentice’s commitment to getting off the energy-revenue roller-coaster and his plans to replenish Alberta’s savings. But two things bothered me about the premier’s pre-budget TV…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your long weekend reading. – Jim Buchanan comments on the mountain of inequality looming over all of our political choices. Laurie Posner interviews Paul Gorski about the…
Jesse Brown Was right: The CBC Did Cave
A week ago I wrote a post based on a report by Canadaland’s Jesse Brown asserting that pressure had been exerted by the Keilburger organization over a documentary from the…