On last week’s podcast, I interviewed two researchers from Montreal’s IRIS, or the Insitut de recherché et d’informations socio-economiques, which has now been producing important progressive research for 15 years.…
Your news links for today: BCE’s Media Head Says Canadians Using U.S. Netflix Is Stealing – Bloomberg My Daughter is a Netflix VPN Thief, Media Boss Confesses – TorrentFreak Rogers…
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I have written before about volunteerism and what is means to me. From volunteering at one’s school to participating in our civic processes, volunteering is a way to “give back”…
Here, on how we should expect our leaders to respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report on residential schools – and what we’ve seen from the Cons instead. For…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Genevieve LeBaron, Johanna Montgomerie, and Daniela Tepe-Belfrage write that inequality is getting worse in the UK based on class, gender and all…
This is far too true and almost too sad for words: Recommend this Post
It’s a rag that promotes neo-Naziism, white supremacy, homophobia and pedophilia. And it’s still distributed to tens of thousands of homes in Toronto by Canada Post. Why, Lisa Raitt, John…
I don't know who came up with the idea to have Stephen Harper dress up as a chicken and boycott the debates organized by the three main television networks.Whether it…
Quiet encouragement was the best we could ever offer MP Michael Chong’s reform bill. At its earliest it was idealistic and in its final form it is probably immaterial. Whether…
https://www.tumblr.com/ Bill C- 51 was supposed to have been Stephen Harper’s trump card. If the economy went south, he could scare voters into supporting him. It worked a couple of…
Canada’s first-quarter GDP report was not just “atrocious,” as predicted by Stephen Poloz. It was downright negative: total real GDP shrank at an annualized rate of 0.6% (fastest pace of…
The one to the left. In case you’re wondering, that space: Was first offered to Team Red, to a very senior person. They said they’d get back. They didn’t. Was…
R. v. Fortuin 2015 ONCJ 116 is reproduced in full: RULING ON USE OF RESTRAINTS IN THE COURTROOM 1 P.A. SCHRECK J.:– Shane Fortuin pleaded guilty to one count of…
I wouldn't be surprised if the dark idea crept into Stephen Harper's Jurassic brain even as he cowered in that closet, on that fatal day on Parliament Hill.And at the…
An exchange on Twitter reminded your humble e-scribbler on Wednesday evening of the power of false information to persist despite either being disproven or, in this case, being an obvious…
Lis Stannus remembers how serious the problem of acid rain was in Ontario when she lived on a farm near Lake Huron as a child. So when Rio Tinto Alcan…
Game-changing supporters of the Conservative Party of Canada are warning Stephen Harper Bill C-51 could result in “a Liberal or NDP government”. The post “Kill Bill C-51″: Conservative Supporters Tell…
It has been a while since we last wrote about London's Southern Ontario "Skinheads." In truth, they had been rather boring of late which isn't necessarily a bad thing since…
