In Portugal, the Left is caught between two extremes
By Hugo Coelho for the New Statesman – Antonia Costa’s socialists face an unpalatable choice: grand coalition with the right, or cohabitation with die-hard communists on the left. Source: In…
September 2015
Check Out My Scary List of Stephen Harper’s Scummy Candidates
I don't know where Stephen Harper gets his candidates from, but it must be a dark and smelly place.You'd think the guy with the coffee cup and the YouTube pervert…
Harper fatigue in Harperland
“In the name of God, go!” Twice, in British history, have words been uttered to a leader that his time is up: once, in Cromwell’s time, and again, in 1940:…
iPolitics: What TPP commitments can the Conservatives make during a campaign?
A question we’ve been asked often: What exactly can the Harper government commit to in the TPP negotiations during a federal election campaign? Article by BJ Siekierski and Kelsey Johnson…
Meat For The Conservative Base
… is, I hope, indigestible for the rest of us. At Sunday’s Calgary-Signal Hill all-candidates debate, Conservative candidate Ron Liepert responded to criticisms of the Conservatives’ controversial Bill C-51 by…
Book Review: Into the Heart of Mexico: Expatriates Find Themselves Off the Beaten Path
John Scherber has lived in San Miguel de Allende since 2007. He has written 17 fiction books, and this is his third non-fiction. This book is a series of interviews…
Hitler – and Mussolini – and us….
Well, the Irving press DID cover Mulcair’s speech on the boardwalk yesterday morning – and a very chilly morning it was. For some reason, though, the photo of it was…
Harper’s ‘Dog Whistle’ Messaging to ‘Old Stock Canadians’ — Was Heard And Understood
Don Maroc’s post on Harper’s thinly veiled ‘Old Stock Canadians’ was welcomed by many Cowichan Conversation Readers. He was certainly not the only one to hear the ‘Dog Whistle’ messaging…
Dethroning Climate Change Skeptics
The influential Associated Press style book is rewriting the rules for writing about climate change deniers. Among other things they’re no longer to be called “skeptics” because that demeans real…
The Environmental Time Bomb We Never Talk About
There are major food security threats building around the world and yet there’s very little public discourse over what it is, what it means, what we can do about it…
Lax Kw’alaams claim on Lelu Island could sink Petronas’ LNG project
Lelu Island and Flora Bank (foreground) – site of controversial proposed LNG plant (Skeena Watershed Conservation Soc.) Read this September 18 Vancouver Sun story on a claim by the Lax…
Why this Dipper is voting Liberal in Calgary Centre
Liberals have been screwing Calgary for a long time. When one hears this, one’s thoughts immediately turn to Trudeau senior and his National Energy Program. But it started long before…
Southeast Vancouver Seniors Centre gets green light
Vancouver Park Board News Release September 23, 2015 Vancouver Park Board Chair John Coupar and all Commissioners are very pleased to share good news related to the construction of the…
Tom Mulcair says Not a Snowball’s Chance in Hell he will prop up a Harper minority government
The end of the Harper era Tom Mulcair has firmly rejected any chance that the NDP would support Stephen Harper’s government in any confidence votes after the October 19 election:…
Turning Opportunity Into Crisis Into Process
One of the joys of returning to the city I moved away from over a decade ago has been reconnecting with some very lovely people in what promises to be…
It’s Time to Talk About a New Vision for the Canadian Economy
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. The federal leaders’ debate on the economy focused on important issues — jobs, deficits, infrastructure spending, pipelines, climate change — but no…
It’s Time to Talk About a New Vision for the Canadian Economy
This is a guest post by David Suzuki. The federal leaders’ debate on the economy focused on important issues — jobs, deficits, infrastructure spending, pipelines, climate change — but no…
The Dangerous Grudge-Match. . . .
There is no doubt that many people on the left of centre are in serious quandary concerning October 19th. Now I’m not talking about the diehard partisans here – those…
"It’s Not Doing Any Good" – Our Failed Air War against ISIS
The Independent’s Robert Fisk has been reporting on all things Middle Eastern for three decades now. When it comes to knowing the region, he’s it. Naturally, a lot of his…