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…
2015
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
Europe Meets 2020 Emissions Targets Early
Europe has already beat its 202 gas emissions target and it’s only 2015! This is good news because we need to reduce our energy consumption and our global output of…
Rainy Day – Stay In
Of the Law Societies of Upper Canada and Nunavut
Effect of an acquittal
Palermo, O.J. No. 3191 (Durno) at para 51-52: 39 Mr. Perrin relies on R. v. Grant (1991), 67 C.C.C. (3d) 268 (S.C.C.) and R. v. Grdic 1 S.C.R. 810 as…
Akaash Maharaj – Huffington Post: Addressing the United Nations
Political corruption kills more people than war and famine combined. I addressed the United Nations on how the international community can and must act to bring kleptocrats to justice.
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…