May 21: If you tell a lie, make it a big one..
…people are too smart to fall for the small ones. New Brunswick’s Liberal government wants to privatize more of our government services, like health care. The reason is the old…
May 2015
why are ontario public school teachers on strike?
Public school teachers in our area are on strike, part of a series of rolling strikes hitting different regions throughout Ontario. If the province doesn’t back down before the beginning…
Greece on a knife edge
Photo from Public Domain It is exactly five years since Greece joined the European Support Mechanism with the close cooperation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). At that time, the…
Elizabeth Warren takes on Obama and the TPP
If it were up to me, Elizabeth Warren would be the next president of the United States. She is a remarkable woman—United States senator, former Harvard law professor and an…
A Nation of Snitches
Graphic created by EFF Senior Designer Hugh D’Andrade. A totalitarian state is only as strong as its informants. And the United States has a lot of them. They read our…
OpenMedia welcomes new CRTC Internet speed measurement program as a win for Canadians and an important step to protect net neutrality
wifilogo.png OpenMedia welcomes new CRTC Internet speed measurement program as a win for Canadians and an important step to protect net neutrality May 21, 2015 – This morning the CRTC…
Make the Rich Panic
Photo by Dorret It does not matter to the corporate rich who wins the presidential election. It does not matter who is elected to Congress. The rich have the power.…
Robert Scheer and Chris Hedges on How the Private Sector Buys and Sells Your Privacy
Image from Public Domain As Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer points out to Chris Hedges in this interview for The Real News Network about Scheer’s new book, They Know Everything About…
A Disaster Waiting to Happen
Photo by United States Navy According to a 29 April report in The New York Times, leaders from the U.S.-led coalition at war with the Islamic State in Iraq and…
Anti-Semitic, white supremacist rag facing police probe
Story here. The cops will do what they do. In the meantime, those of us who live in the community aren’t going to wait. If you want to help us,…
B.C. Plans to Cull Wolves for Next Decade While Failing to Protect Caribou Habitat From Industry
B.C. will continue to kill wolves for at least a decade in an attempt to save endangered caribou according to government documents released this week — but new research re-confirms…
Premier Clark spews more hot air with LNG non-announcent
Premier Christy Clark announcing…the same thing she’s announced many times before (BC Government) For all the fanfare of yesterday’s press conference, you’d think Premier Christy Clark would have some big,…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Heather Stewart writes about the OECD’s study showing the connection between increasingly precarious work and worsening inequality. – Tara Deschamps reports on…
Why Greece’s Syriza party is not sticking to the script on an IMF deal | Paul Mason | Paul Mason
Why Greece’s Syriza party is not sticking to the script on an IMF deal | Paul Mason | Paul Mason. The leaked IMF document seen by Channel 4 News last…
Temporary and part-time jobs surge promotes inequality, says OECD | Business | The Guardian
Temporary and part-time jobs surge promotes inequality, says OECD | Business | The Guardian. Heather Stewart A surge in self-employment and temporary or part-time jobs over the past two decades…
New column day
Here, expanding on this post about the new challenges the Cons are facing heading into this fall’s election. For further reading…– Geoffrey Stevens offers his own take on the Cons’…