It’s magical thinking, belief-based opinion making that can be completely detached from fact, reality. It was the thought process that guided our outgoing prime minister. The world and everyone and…
Trade negotiators are trying to use the TPP to extend copyright terms and hurt the public domain. That’s bad. Help us put an end to this secretive, Internet-censoring deal at…
Veteran Canadian journalist, Geoffrey Stevens, argues that it’s time to shut down the trials (and tribulations) of senator Michael Dennis Duffy. As Stevens sees it there are two trials underway…
As mentioned here, I’ll be adding over the next little while to an already-substantial set of views on the NDP’s choices which led to last week’s federal election results. But…
Your news links for today: Court Chooses to Ignore Overwhelming Evidence of NSA’s Mass Internet Spying – ACLU Facebook betrayed us by secretly lobbying for cyber-surveillance bill – Cory Doctorow…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Steven Klees notes that there’s no reason at all to think that corporatist policies labeled as “pro-growth” will do anything to help the…
The election is over and I am trying to think again about how I can be involved in making change in the world. I would like to be involved in…
http://blogs.rosemont78.org/ It didn’t take long for cracks to show in the Harper party. The divisions are essentially three. Michael Harris writes: There are three factions left in
"The party got off to a bad start with its election promise to balance the budget without raising taxes. That promise, difficult to honour during a period of general economic…
“The party got off to a bad start with its election promise to balance the budget without raising taxes. That promise, difficult to honour during a period of general economic…
"The party got off to a bad start with its election promise to balance the budget without raising taxes. That promise, difficult to honour during a period of general economic…
“The party got off to a bad start with its election promise to balance the budget without raising taxes. That promise, difficult to honour during a period of general economic…
Dan Gagnier of Justin Trudeau’s election team was the only person in the federal election campaign without the political smarts to stay away from pipeline questions. And the TransCanada people…
Cities that are designed for cars now have the problem of switching from the traffic-causing polluting machines. Most places can’t build more roads so they need to use what they…
The Conservative Party’s leadership race is underway, whether official or not. Because I am a student of politics, and because I am unselfishly devoted to my readers and the greater…
It was just another traffic accident in downtown Toronto, where everyone is always in a hurry, and time is money, and sometimes bloody.And Godzilla knows I've seen enough of them.But…
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best. (Otto von Bismarck) I never thought that I would see this day come. We…
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable -- the art of the next best. (Otto von Bismarck)I never thought that I would see this day come. We have…
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best. (Otto von Bismarck) I never though that I would see this day come. We…
The legal processes may be slow but that provides years of opportunity for people devoid of morality and ethics to speculate in stockholdings of the merchants of death. In the…
