What goes down can also go up
Much sturm und drang on that Ekos, last Friday. Some of the commentariat commenting is commented on, below. L. Ian MacDonald: As much as the Conservatives should be concerned about…
June 2015
The Harper government and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine
Illustration by Latuff As the 67th year remembrance year of the Palestinian Nakba passes and federal elections in Canada approach, there is one aspect of the Harper government that will…
Kathleen Wynne: Please refuse ‘honour’ from Israel lobby group
Photo by Alex Guibord On May 4, individuals representing Independent Jewish Voices – Canada, Women in Solidarity with Palestine, Dykes and Trans People for Palestine, and Palestine House sent a…
Don’t Make Book On It. But . . .
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/ It’s too early to make predictions about the federal election, but it appears that Justin Trudeau’s support for Bill C-51 has hurt him. Michael Harris writes: In his latest…
Human Rights Watch Says Bill C-51 Violates Charter Of Rights
How can it be that everyone else is wrong, and the Harper regime alone holds the truth about the necessity of Bill C-51 to keep us safe? Recommend this Post
Justin Trudeau brought his perfect game.
When somebody bowls a perfect game, you have to admire it. In politics a perfect game is a rare event. You have to remember that in politics there are people…
Stephen Harper’s Absurd Hyperbolic Performance at the G7 Summit
His propaganda machine has been furiously pumping out pictures like this one, to make it appear that Stephen Harper is a big player at the G7 summit.Desperately trying to portraying…
Small ball, election dates, and other minutae #nlpoli
Later today, Premier Paul Davis will introduce a bill in the House of Assembly that, among other things, sets the next provincial general election for the last week of November.…
Double victory for democracy in Turkey
Turkish President Recep Erdogan has just learned a lesson in democracy. And humility. Erdogan, a popular prime minister and the country’s dominant politician since his party swept to power in…
Tory-linked lobbying firm hires former Canadian Labour Congress president and former B.C. NDP minister
PHOTOS: Lobbyists head out to provide “strategic counsel” to Alberta’s new NDP government. Can you spot the recently hired New Democrats among them? No? Well, neither can I. Actual Alberta…
Thanks, Tabatha
Brilliant column by Tabatha Southey on Caitlyn Jenner and how bizarre and inappropriate the pundit reactions have been to her. Tabatha points out this essential truth: … people are not…
Boycott Tim Hortons? Seriously??
The recent media frenzy generated by Tim Hortons’ decision to pull the Enbridge ads off their in-store Tims TV monitors almost drove Ms Soapbox to drink (G&Ts not Tims double…
Raif Badawi: Saudi Court Upholds Brutal Sentence of Liberal Blogger
I don't expect much, or anything really, from the barbaric kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The home of the beheaders, and the nexus of terrorism.But even by its brutish standards this…
CBC-Truth and Reconciliation Commission Findings Must Be Acted Upon, Aboriginal Student Says
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is out, many of us have welcomed the report, its’ findings, and its opportunity to face but not accept the incomprehensible abuse that native families…
Another Archy Poem
Most of Don Marquis’ Archy pieces were written in lowercase. The literate cockroach, we learned, would stand on the typewriter and dive, head first, onto the keys. But this way,…
Now Here’s An Unsettling Revelation
Apparently molestation runs rampant in the homes of the Christian Right: Could there be something wrong in their theology? Recommend this Post
The Idea of Muslim National Communism: On Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev
Not having any pretensions of giving an overview of all of Muslim national communism, I am interested here in someone who remains its major figure, the Tartar Bolshevik intellectual and…
Sit on Your Hands
Sit on your hands and don’t do anything. That’s in essence the advice in the editorial of the Enterprise-Bulletin, June 3. It’s a strongly anti-business message: telling the business community,…
June 7: Much of what we believe in the news is based on what we believe in history.
We believe that we are good people. We believe that from the versions of our history we get in education, on TV, and in movies. Ever read a history book…