Looking Forward
Like most progressives, I'm looking forward to the first Throne Speech in a decade that promotes a Canadian agenda based on generosity and hope. Even the Peace Tower carillon is…
December 2015
Read, Re-read, Repeat
I’m currently re-reading Mikhail Bulgakov’s fantasy novel of Soviet life under Stalin, The Master and Margarita. Since this is actually a newer translation than the original one I read many…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Tom Bawden notes that inequality is as much a problem in our relative contribution to climate change as it is in so many other…
Is Saudi Arabia The Big Bad Wolf Of The Paris Climate Talks?
BY KYLA MANDEL AND BRENDAN MONTAGUE IN PARIS Oil rich Saudi Arabia is leading a campaign to sabotage attempts by countries on the front line of climate change to include…
Motion to extend time to serve and file appeal
Nguyen v. Economical Mutual Insurance Company, 2015 ONCA 828: With that factual background in mind, I turn to the test for an extension of time for the service and filing…
Movements and moments
Let's continue this line of thought about the federal NDP's most recent election campaign with my slight twist on one of the more familiar questions which has faced the party…
The Ghastly and Ghostly Return of Stephen Harper
It was like a ghostly apparition. After pulling a vanishing act for weeks, and causing people to wonder whether he was holed up in his basement, or being treated in…
Kicking The Harper Habit
The Conservatives, under Stephen Harper, were addicted to power. Michael Harris writes:The Conservative Party of Canada is still deep in the throes of withdrawal — and the addiction to absolute…
Surely the media can do better!
We know the news media are desperate to find something to complain about with our new prime minister. They are just missing by a mile with their silly ‘nanny-gate’ huffing…
The NRA are terrorists
And I’ve long felt they should be prosecuted as such. I’m not alone, apparently.
Voter turn-out #nlpoli
Political scientist Stephen Tomblin is concerned about the low voter turn-out in the recent elections. Tomblin thinks it is a sign that voters are disconnected from the political system. The…
Meet The Paris Climate Summit’s ‘Big Energy’ Sponsor Engie
BY KYLA MANDEL AND BRENDAN MONTAGUE IN PARIS French energy giant Engie is perhaps the most prominent and most promoted corporate sponsor of the COP21 climate talks in Paris. Engie,…
Corus – CKNW Orphans’ Fund revisited
The Voluntarism Fantasy, Mike Konczal, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, 2014Conservatives dream of returning to a world where private charity fulfilled all public needs. But that world never existed —…
Let sleeping overdogs lie: Nothing to see here folks, just move along, please!
PHOTOS: We’re closed. But not for long, OK? Don’t get antsy if your comments don’t appear immediately. Read Daveberta.ca. Below: If you wondered what was going on in Alberta, now…
Inmates refuse meals to protest Innes Rd. jail conditions (repost)
Inedible food, no time in the outside yard, overcrowded cells and no access to religious or self-help programs. Muhamad Alhasi told the Sun on Wednesday that he and other inmates…
Towards a Radical Critique of Eurocentrism: An Interview with Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu (repost)
According to the dominant narrative, the origin of capitalism was a European process at its core: this was a system born in the mills and factories of England, or under…
Dirt
Have a new album coming out, uh, no, new photo project actually, and this is more motivational (for me) than it is promotional. It might the most radical off the
COP21: 140 Physicians Demand Bold Canadian Action Against Climate Change
More than 140 Canadian physicians and medical students have signed a letter demanding bold Liberal action on climate change after the COP21 conference. The post COP21: 140 Physicians Demand Bold…
Going Green – The Tiny Home Project
Yes, my dream is about to become reality. I didn't think I was going to be able to pull this one off for at least two years, but it looks…