Last nights debate was a real stick in the Munk!
Last nights Munk debates featured a less than thought provoking discussion on Canada's place in the world. The debate became so bad, that the candidates basically yelled at each other…
September 2015
Last nights debate was a real stick in the Munk!
Last nights Munk debates featured a less than thought provoking discussion on Canada’s place in the world. The debate became so bad, that the candidates basically yelled at each other…
KCCCC Day 58: Munk debate comments, gratis
We are in Vancouver, heading East soon. So, as before, here are comments on the Munk Debate from all of you. For the most part, I personally agree with most…
An NDP candidate’s mistake and the politics of not-knowing
I have to admit, I’m skeptical that Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas NDP candidate Alex Johnstone really didn’t know what Auschwitz was until last week. But I think the controversy that her claim…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Your news links for today: The Big Secret That Makes the FBI’s Anti-Encryption Campaign a Big Lie – The Intercept Carly Fiorina: I Supplied HP Servers for NSA Snooping –…
Shell Stops Efforts to Drill in the Arctic
For a while now Shell has been trying to suck oil in the arctic. Arctic drilling is extremely dangerous and Shell’s efforts in the north have been ridiculed by Greenpeace.…
The Munk Debate and the Justin Trudeau Challenge
I thought it was the best debate so far, if only because at long last it was all about our precious and very threatened Canadian values.And as predicted, as soon…
Stealin’ All My Dreams
That’s the message Blue Rodeo delivers in this music video, which features some timely reminders of the almost decade’s worth of depredations that have taken place under the Harper regime.…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Miles Corak writes about the spread of economic inequality in Canada: Companies like ATS epitomize the underlying tide driving jobs and incomes…
The friends of Stephen Harper.
Who can you trust? If a giant, well-respected firm such as Germany’s Volkswagen can be found out to be lying to us, is it the only one? When contaminated meats…
Time Will Tell
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson Pierre Trudeau’s ghost haunted Roy Thomson Hall last night. Stephen Harper has been doing battle with that ghost since he entered public life. And, last night,…
Climate Justice Movement Highlights Women as ‘Key’ to Climate Solutions
Women from around the world are mobilising today to call for action on climate change as international leaders meet in New York at the United Nations General Assembly. “There is…
Climate Justice Movement Highlights Women as ‘Key’ to Climate Solutions
Women from around the world are mobilising today to call for action on climate change as international leaders meet in New York at the United Nations General Assembly. “There is…
Rumpole and the Family Compact #nlpoli
Sixteen of the province’s 22 full-time provincial court judges are either already in or are on their way to St. Andrews, New Brunswick. They are in for a surprise. They’ve…
On Climate, the Times Are a-Changing
Three stories out of the United States this week offer hope to those concerned about the climate crisis. Pope Francis visited the United States, where he interjected himself firmly into…
Sentencing the Aboriginal Offender
In Canadian law people of Aboriginal background face a different sentencing regime than other Canadians. The Criminal Code provides for restraint in the use of imprisonment for Aboriginal offenders. The…
bernie sanders, the pope, and the politics of amnesia
I see a lot of excitement online, in places like Common Dreams and The Nation, and in my Facebook feed, about Bernie Sanders, supposedly remaking US politics, and Pope Francis,…