The left’s hopes for Greece fade
This caricature of Alexis Tsipras was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo by Olaf Kosinsky available via Wikimedia. The body was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from…
September 2015
The Age of Imperial Wars
U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class James Finnigan Introduction 2015 has become a year of living dangerously. Wars are spreading across the globe. Wars are escalating as new…
Wall Street Warns About Cost Of Doing Nothing On Climate Change
As President Obama heads to the Arctic to discuss climate change, just mere weeks after approving Shell Oil’s bid to drill for oil in the treacherous Chukchi Sea, a very…
After Syriza | by Stathis Kouvelakis
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Steelhead LNG Roll Out Plans For A Pipeline Between Bamberton and Washington State
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger When Malahat Nation Chief Michael Harry announced that they had purchased the 526 acre Bamberton property there were hopes of some beneficial developments for the beleaguered Malahat…
Sucking Diesel Fuel From Thin Air
We’ve polluted so much that there are now companies that think there is profit to be made by sucking CO2 from the air. How they make money is by reselling…
Excuse me, your ideology is showing
When conservative politicians run out of meaningful things to say about Alberta’s NDP government they whip out the “ideology” card and last week’s debate featuring candidates vying for the seat…
Boccaccio’s Decameron
I never read The Decameron in any original, or complete translation. I have a bowdlerized edition I read in part some time ago, perhaps the 1970s. I recall seeing an…
Conservatism’s Relativism about the Truth
Of course he rejects the Statistics Canada report concerning the definition of a recession. Just like he and other conservatives reject the ICPP reports on climate change, United Nations and…
Conservatism’s Relativism about the Truth
Of course he rejects the Statistics Canada report concerning the definition of a recession. Just like he and other conservatives reject the ICPP reports on climate change, United Nations and…
Conservatism’s Relativism about the Truth
Of course he rejects the Statistics Canada report concerning the definition of a recession. Just like he and other conservatives reject the ICPP reports on climate change, United Nations and…
It’s Complicated
In 2002 Maher Arar was introduced to torture by a Syrian colonel. He was tuned up pretty good. Arar thought he was coming home to Toronto. The RCMP and the…
Big Telecom are trying to make the Internet like cable TV and we have to stop them
Last week, one of Canada’s Big Telecom giants announced a controversial new scheme that will give them more power to control how you use the Internet on your mobile devices…
Is Nothing Sacred Anymore?
What is it with these gun happy American cops? Now they’re gunning down unarmed white people with their hands up in the air. Is nothing sacred any more?
Francis, I’m Not Sure They’re Looking for Your Pardon.
I know he means well and he’s trying to remove a hurdle that too often separates Catholic women from their church. And so Pope Francis has decreed that the priesthood…
Protesters Shut Down Coal Mine in Germany
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Mrs. Universe urges Canada’s First Nations to vote out Harper
Newly-crowned Mrs. Universe, Ashley Callingbull, is calling on First Nations people in Canada to vote out Stephen Harper during the 2015 federal election. The post Mrs. Universe urges Canada’s First…
Of Grey Suits Stuffed with Wet Cardboard
Many, many times I’ve described the leaders of our three mainstream parties as grey suits stuffed with wet cardboard. Nothing that has happened in the course of this election has…