Are You Supporting Politics of Nihilism?
2030. You do realize that’s just 15-years away. Do you realize that 15-years is a heartbeat when it comes to making fundamental change? So, what’s so important about 2030? Plenty.…
May 2015
Five Bad Beliefs That Harm Caregivers
Caregiving is a complicated role, full of joy and sometimes grief and frustration. Caring for those we love is laden with human drama and is hard enough without imposing beliefs…
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A Grumpy Hobbit
Looking for Information about Tear Gassed Children on May 1st in Montreal
After witnessing various incomprehensible scenes last Friday (May 1st), some member of the “Parents United Against Austerity” committee would like to get into contact with people whose children were teargassed,…
Ooh, This Is Beginning to Reek of RCMP and Richard Nixon
As the Mike Duffy trial begins to dissolve in the Crown’s hands, it’s beginning to smell like a political drive-by hit. Steve Harper’s attempts to distance himself from it only…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Justin Wolfers discusses new research showing how location has a dramatic effect on the future of young children. And it’s particularly striking that…
140 Law – Recent Leading Legal Headlines
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter: Prisoner’s window escape from Toronto courthouse was brief Canada’s first legal incubator opens at Ryerson Criminal Arrested After ‘Liking’…
New interactive map reveals largest farmland exclusion in ALR history for Site C Dam
Screen capture from www.arcgis.com “On April 8, 2015, with the stroke of a pen, the BC Government made the largest exclusion of land from the Agricultural Land Reserve in BC…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, May 4, 2015
Your news links for today: Bill C-51 Might Be Passed Next Week – Press For Truth Ontario aboriginal groups fear Bill C-51 will turn protests into terrorism – The Agenda…
The Count of Monte Cristo
Many of us grew up on the stories of Alexandre Dumas; from cartoons to comic books, TV series and movies. And, yes, books, albeit often abridged for the young market,…
The History and Present Reality of Workers Struggles in the South of China
Where/Lieu: 5323 rue Brébeuf (Montréal)When/Quand: 6:30pm Friday May 8th/Vendredi le 8 mai **français ci-dessous** A new wave of labour strikes has been developing in the south of China since the…
Canadians against racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism and hate
Here. This is much needed, and particularly in Toronto’s east end. A group of neo-Nazis and white supremacist have apparently become very active there, and are even making use of…
Monte McNaughton shows his true colours on eve of Ont PC vote
Failed Tory leadership candidate/Lambton-area PC MPP Monte McNaughton hit new lows over the weekend with emailed attacks on his colleague Christine Elliott, who might end up being his political boss…
Cuba Creates Great Doctors
Cuba is a beautiful country filled with nice people. Many of those people are educated doctors who go around the world saving lives for free, and they do the same…
He Doesn’t Do Well In A Court Of Law
http://www.pressprogress.ca/ The Harper government is rushing to prevent Omar Khadr’s release from jail. The National Post reports: Federal lawyers have signalled to Khadr’s defence team that they will seek a…
The mad mathematics of Ontario’s Whigs.
Maybe Ontario teachers were on strike back when little Kathleen Wynne and Charles Sousa were there to learn mathematics. It would be the only excuse for the utterly ridiculous decision…
Hedging bets in Alberta
Everyone got it wrong in Alberta’s 2012 election – well, almost everyone – so they’re all hedging their bets this time. CBC numbers guy: Seven polls were published between Thursday…
On Harper’s Mastery Of The Economy
H/t The Toronto Star ‘Nuff said. Recommend this Post
Let’s Put Politics Where It Belongs: The Political Economy
The advantage of being able to speak and read in several languages is that you get to see how different cultures divide up the world, a phenomenon commonly referred to…