Toronto Star: TPP trades away our constitutional rights
The TPP will have extensive negative ramifications for users’ freedom of expression, right to privacy and due process, and hinder peoples’ abilities to innovate. We need to stop this. Speak…
October 2015
They Knew There Would Be No Nuremberg for Them
How do the directing minds of a company persist through 40-years in growing an industry they know could endanger all of mankind? The obvious answer is that they knew they…
What does the Liberal win mean for Jewish groups?
The longest election campaign in modern Canadian history delivered more than a surprise Liberal majority – it yielded six new Jewish MPs for the winning party: Michael Levitt in Toronto’s…
Thoughts on 24 Sussex
Some thoughts and ideas about what the Trudeaus should do when it comes to 24 Sussex.
The Case for Hope after Harper
This article originally appeared on Alternatives Journal. “What is it about activists that they can’t even be optimistic for one day after a whole decade?” The disgust and disappointment on…
A Mask For Halloween
From around 2007. Turcot was a playground for me. I often had the thought that this would have been a pretty cool location for kids to explore. And I remembered…
A Mask For Halloween
From around 2007. Turcot was a playground for me. I often had the thought that this would have been a pretty cool location for kids to explore. And I remembered…
Ah, Bugger the Bible, Mate. Don’t Let That Jesus Stuff Mess With Your Mind!
If Steve Harper is looking for a new career he should consider teaming up with his fellow ousted prime minister, Australia’s Tony Abbott in the lucrative field of political vaudeville.…
The Hershey Highway – It’s Real !!
And what’s more, despite gravity it sometimes runs uphill. When you sat down with your morning coffee today you probably didn’t spare a thought for how much your very existence…
Pete Fry: Viaducts removal and Vancouver’s eastern expansion
The Straight October 27th, 2015 Photo by Stephen Hui This week, Vancouver City Council is expected to vote on removing the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts—although as many City Hall watchers…
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This little web site – celebrating Year Fifteen in a few weeks! – attracts more than 140,000 visits a month, with many more during election campaigns. I knew that. What…
Cariboo-Prince George and Edmonton -Griesbach Illustrate the Difficulty–Even the Perversity–of so-called "Strategic Voting"
On the whole, the October 19 election was a good day for democracy. I had feared—more than once in these columns—what a re-elected Conservative Harper majority might mean in terms…
Cariboo-Prince George and Edmonton -Griesbach Illustrate the Difficulty–Even the Perversity–of so-called "Strategic Voting"
On the whole, the October 19 election was a good day for democracy. I had feared—more than once in these columns—what a re-elected Conservative Harper majority might mean in terms…
Cariboo-Prince George and Edmonton -Griesbach Illustrate the Difficulty–Even the Perversity–of so-called "Strategic Voting"
On the whole, the October 19 election was a good day for democracy. I had feared—more than once in these columns—what a re-elected Conservative Harper majority might mean in terms…
Building imitates life
Owner cracked, too. @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/5ptKgoKEvV — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 28, 2015 REMINDER: Bay-Adelaide remains closed. Trump Tower reported to have a cracked window. https://t.co/0j0tM0FfTt pic.twitter.com/KZQiwvVwNn — CBC Toronto (@CBCToronto)…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Your news links for today: C-51 Reform, TPP Top the List of “Real Change” Tech Policy Priorities – Michael Geist Support for Bill C-51 hits all time low – ThinkPol…
Podcast: What’s next for anti-austerity in Portugal and Greece?
http://rozworski.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Podcast151028-Portugal-and-Greece.mp3 Two updates from Southern Europe this week: Catarina Principe brings us up-to-date on the situation in Portugal and Andreas Karitzis recounts the search for a new politics in Greece…
Will Ferrell does a mock music video of gangster rap – and it’s a scathingly hilarious critique of the genre
This is scathingly funny. Will Ferrell does a mock music video of macho gangster rap. Man, how I despise that music. As Rage Against the Machine said, “So-called rap’s a…
There’s Hard Work Ahead
http://www.babble.com/ For Justin Trudeau, the hard part is about to begin. Richard Gwyn reminds his readers that Trudeau’s father came in with hope and optimism, but by 1972 things
Will Ferrell does a mock music video of gangster rap – and it’s a scathingly hilarious critique of the genre
A musical commentary, followed by social and political analysis, followed by hilarious spoof rap videos, and more This is scathingly funny. Will Ferrell does a mock music video of macho…