A Civilization Living in an Antique Shop
You know as soon as you disembark from your train at London’s Victoria Station that you’re strolling through a genuine antique, a window in time. The station, which came into…
October 2015
I need your help to help the Royal Canadian Legion
A friend of mine has been strenuously advocating for Royal Canadian Legion Poppy Funds – to help veterans with Post Tramautic Stress Injury, and to get them a specially-trained therapeutic…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, October 1, 2015
Your news links for today: Leaked Email Shows Canada’s Foreign Ministry Is Pissed That Staff Are Leaking Secret Docs – VICE News So why all the secrecy on TPP? –…
Ah, Jeebus! Is Everything Rigged?
Last week it was Volkswagen getting caught having embedded “defeat device” code into its diesel engine systems to confound emissions testers. Then it was news that just about every other…
Hope Fades ……
It is becoming difficult to hold on to hope. Despite all we know about the Harper regime, despite all that has been written about its corruption, its abuse of power,…
How Lynton Crosby Brought Stephen Harper Back From the Dead
I must admit it is getting a bit grim out there. Fall has finally arrived, it's getting colder and darker, the skies over this ghastly Harperland are filled with flying…
Be a Part of the Future: Sign the Leap Manifesto
Canada has been destroying it’s own environment (and trashing international environmental policy) for way too long. As a result of this ignorant neglect a bunch of prominent Canadians have produced…
Bail is not jail
R v Ijam, 2007 ONCA 597, O.J. No. 3395, at paras. 36-37: Fourth, I do not accept the proposition that bail, even with stringent conditions, and pre-trial custody are to…
Wombat Attack
http://www.dailymail.co.uk It’s clear that Lynton Crosby is now in charge of the Harper campaign. How else do you explain the prime minister’s railing about niqabs in the face of two…
I Don’t Know
They may be the three most difficult words for certain professionals to utter.The mere temptation to speak them aloud has even been known (among some, it is rumoured), to dredge…
KCCCC Day 60: close don’t count in baseball
Frank Robinson said that. “Close don’t count in baseball. Only counts in horseshoes and grenades.” But what about politics? Does close count in the political game? Well, how close are…
Turning the corner on the 2015 election.
There are many wonderful readers of Babel-on-the-Bay. The other day one of our stalwarts sent an e-mail saying how warming it was to read that the Harper government is toast.…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment 2015-10-01 05:36:00
I AM FROM ALBERTA WE KNOW COAL A hundred years ago my grandfather a Ukrainian immigrant worked in the coal mines in Wayne Alberta.Forty years ago I went to University…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment 2015-10-01 05:36:00
I AM FROM ALBERTA WE KNOW COAL A hundred years ago my grandfather a Ukrainian immigrant worked in the coal mines in Wayne Alberta.Forty years ago I went to University…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment 2015-10-01 05:36:00
I AM FROM ALBERTA WE KNOW COAL A hundred years ago my grandfather a Ukrainian immigrant worked in the coal mines in Wayne Alberta.Forty years ago I went to University…
Muskrat Falls commercial power by Q2 2019 ? #nlpoli
The latest progress report shows that Nalcor had a productive summer, but an extrapolation by the researcher and writer JM of information in the latest progress reports points to first…
Stephen Harper’s Dangerous Move to Deport Canadians Born in Canada
If anyone doubted that Stephen Harper's plan to strip the citizenship of dual citizens convicted of terrorist offences was a slippery slope, and entirely political, consider the evidence.First the Cons…
Fate of Canadian Wheat Board a disturbing harbinger for Canada’s dairy, poultry and egg farmers
PHOTOS: Tractors in the streets of Ottawa on Tuesday, their drivers protesting the Harper Conservatives’ barely concealed plans to destroy the supply-management agricultural sector. (Grabbed from @amkfoote on Twitter.) Below:…