Pope Francis changes game with environmental message
Pope Francis (Catholic Church of England / Flickr) Earth has existed for 4.5 billion years, humans for somewhere around 150,000. But in my brief lifetime — less than 80 years…
June 2015
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Huddled cats.
Paul Fromm and the Council of Conservative Citizens: Canadian MSM Makes Connection
In the early hours of June 22, we published a story that reminded our readers that Canada's own Paul Fromm is closely associated with the Council of Conservative Citizens (CoCC)…
Jason Kenney Makes a Fool Out of Himself on Twitter. Again
Among his many dubious achievements, Jason Kenney is also known as the Con's most aggressive Twitter warrior.A man who blasts tweets out of every orifice without stopping to think what…
Oh Why Did I Buy this Damned Book, Why?
I purposely leave my copy of Chris Hedges new book Wages of Rebellion, the Moral Imperative of Revolt on my breakfast table. It suits me to take it a few…
Running on Fumes and the Problems of Leadership. . .
As the Harper government sputters toward the fall election, a political machine that seems to be running on fumes alone, the issue of leadership is continually arising amongst the MSM…
Why White Supremacy & Anti-Blackness should matter to ASIANS: On Dylan Roof’s racist manifesto
I continue to be without words… and with so much rage towards the Charleston AME shooting. And Jon Stewart put it well- some of us are left without words- not
Is This a Battle We’ve Already Lost Without Knowing It?
Okay they’re listening and I’ve unwittingly let them in my house. We were somewhat troubled to learn, several years ago, that certain game consoles had cameras that could allow others…
Enbridge let off the hook in paltry Kalamazoo oil spill settlement
OIl lingering on the Kalamazoo River long after Enbridge’s 2010 spill (Jason W Lacey/Flickr) Read this May 13 story by Nancy Kaffer in the Detroit Free Press on the paltry…
Entitled To Her Entitlements
That seems to be the attitude of Ann Gray, another former Harper appointee, on her and her husband’s lavish ‘fact-finding’ trips, which cost the taxpayer plenty. She regards the fuss…
UK: 250,000 march to “End Austerity Now”…the Tories respond with more cuts
UK: 250,000 march to “End Austerity Now”…the Tories respond with more cuts. Filed under: Austerity Tagged: Austerity, UK
Why Won’t the Media Denounce Harper as a Despot?
As the Vancouver Observer points out, day in and day out Canadian journalists themselves are willing victims of Harper’s tyrannical ways. We like talking to him. It’s our job, even…
Oxfam Fingers the "Toxic Triangle"
Oxfam has identified three factors, the Toxic Triangle, it considers most likely to defeat our efforts to prevent runaway global warming – political inertia, financial short-termism, and vested fossil fuel…
Richmond Council, Delta MLA question Fraser River LNG tankers
Harold Steves and fellow Richmond councillors voted unanimously for a public review of LNG tankers (Damien Gillis) Richmond Council yesterday unanimously passed a motion calling for a full environmental review…
June 23: Quality of Irving press in decline
I wouldn’t have thought it possible. But foreign news of any significance has just about disappeared in the Times and Transcript. As for the commentary page, it commonly has one…
Dear Steve, Don’t Go Down in History as a Mass Murderer
It’ll be millions, that’s for sure. More likely many hundreds of millions. If you add in collateral events such as war, it could well end up in the billions. Nobody…
The movement against Stephen Harper
Photo by M. Rehemtulla The movement to bring down the Harper government goes well beyond the opposition political parties. Canadians horrified by the authoritarian market fundamentalism of the Conservatives are…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Mark Anderson reports on the Change Readiness Index’ findings that the growing concentration and inequality of wealth is making it more and…