While Paris Mourns, Netanyahu Makes His Move
With all eyes weary from trying to follow the Paris attacks, the G20 and APEC summits, our favourite peace lover, Benjamin Netanyahu, marked the occassion by “authorizing the marketing of…
November 2015
Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Your news links for today: Encryption Is Being Scapegoated To Mask The Failures Of Mass Surveillance – Techcrunch Restricting Encryption Would Not Have Prevented the Paris Attacks – Defense One…
Poland’s Iron Consensus
The new Polish parliament represents a full spectrum of opinion — from the liberal right to the populist right to the ultra-conservative right. The relatively monolithic composition is hardly a…
A Delivery Service Which Improves Traffic Flow in Gothenburg
Gothenburg has a delivery service that pools together deliveries for businesses and it’s making a huge difference on the streets. The streets of Gothenburg used to be clogged with vehicle…
Terror Attacks, G20 Hypocrisy
Illustration by Carlos Latuff I join with many others who stand for a world of peace and justice in completely repudiating the terrorist attacks in Paris and the similar atrocity…
The Not So Nice Cons and the Bitterness of Candice Bergen
When Rona Ambrose became the interim leader of the defeated and humiliated Cons, she promised that they would adopt a “new tone.” I predicted that wouldn’t last long, and sure…
The Bloco Tightrope
Photo by _morgado More than a month has passed since Portugal’s national elections, yet the country remains wracked with political uncertainty. In the weeks following the October 4 election, a…
Anger And Wisdom Don’t Go Together
http://www.wkyt.com/ Writing in yesterday’s Globe and Mail, Bob Rae repeated some advice he once received from a good friend: It’s hard to be smart and angry at the same time.…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Randy Robinson points out that while it’s worth setting a higher bar for all kinds of precarious work, it’s particularly problematic for governments…
“Fear us,” said ISIL. But should we?
“Fear us,” said bin Laden’s al-Queda. And the Americans feared them. They involved the West in foreign wars that nobody has won. The people who call themselves an Islamic State…
Your Alberta Politics morning crossword
For all you Alberta politics aficionados, here is a crossword puzzle to keep you amused while you sip your morning coffee, check out email, and scan the news websites and…
Details #nlpoli
While the townie media are clamouring for details from people who don’t have the details, it’s important to look at what the people with the details are saying. CBC’s Ramona…
Well That Wasn’t Very Polite. Putin Outs ISIS Supporters.
This is certainly awkward. The West’s favourite Bad Boy, Vlad Putin, brought some interesting info to the G20 summit. He brought intelligence data naming what he claims are the 40-countries…
Muslim, Jew, Doesn’t Make Much Difference. We Don’t Like Them When They Come Looking for Help.
A timely reminder from the Washington Post about how compassionate we are to refugees fleeing murderous persecution. It comes in the form of a flashback to1938 when European Jews tried…
Brad Wall’s call to block refugees from Syria is just more of the same old conservative wedge politics
PHOTOS: Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall (CBC Photo). Below: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott and B.C. Premier Christy Clark. Bottom: Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is either demonized…
Weakening Employment Protection in Greece and Portugal
One of the stated goals of austerity in Southern Europe is to weaken the employment protection that is characteristic of the so-called ‘Mediterranean model’ of capitalism. Employment protect refers to…
Seven candidates announced running in Ward 12 by-election, now set for Feb. 22, 2016
Edmonton City Council confirmed today that the Ward 12 by-election to replace former councillor Amarjeet Sohi will be held on Feb. 22, 2016. Candidates must submit their nomination papers in…
Spain: precarious employment fuels rise in occupational accidents
The number of workplace accidents registered in Spain during the first six months of 2015 grew by almost 7 per cent in comparison to 2014. As many as 218,019 “minor”…