On continuing opportunities
Let’s answer Greg Lyle’s headline question as simply and concisely as possible: No. The NDP’s opportunity in the ongoing federal campaign has never involved the ability to move the election…
2015
Voices On Neoliberalism
The late Tony Benn. Naomi Klein on the global neoliberalism.
Well, When You Put It That Way. The Staggering Cost of an Ice Free Arctic.
Brace yourselves. When miscreants like Harper and his polar petro-pal Putin think of an ice free Arctic dreams of oily sugarplums dance through their pointy little heads. Civilization-destroying wealth is…
Burning question
Even leaving aside the past politicians who we’d expect to be mentioned in an election, the Cons’ ultra-long, ultra-nasty campaign has managed to drag three of the top ten Greatest…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Yonatan Strauch and Thomas Homer-Dixon discuss how the Cons’ economic plans involve betting against our planet. And David Macdonald notes that the supposed…
KCCCC Day 55: Saturday morning bits and pieces
Good morning from cold and wet Whitehorse! We have some big things on the agenda today – among them a potlatch out in Carcross – so here’s some bits and…
More on the Question of Freedom and the Niqab. . .
It is interesting and bizarre to me how the foot-soldiers of the rightwing have continually railed against the so-called “nanny-state” and yet they are the first to call for state…
Denying Women Canadian Citizenship Does Nothing to Fight Opression
Are Stephen Harper and the Conservatives actually trying to argue that denying a woman citizenship for wearing the niqab is somehow promoting equal rights? It would seem to me that…
Denying Women Canadian Citizenship Does Nothing to Fight Opression
Are Stephen Harper and the Conservatives actually trying to argue that denying a woman citizenship for wearing the niqab is somehow promoting equal rights? It would seem to me that…
Denying Women Canadian Citizenship Does Nothing to Fight Opression
Are Stephen Harper and the Conservatives actually trying to argue that denying a woman citizenship for wearing the niqab is somehow promoting equal rights? It would seem to me that…
Denying Women Canadian Citizenship Does Nothing to Fight Opression
Are Stephen Harper and the Conservatives actually trying to argue that denying a woman citizenship for wearing the niqab is somehow promoting equal rights? It would seem to me that…
It Has Come To This
I am prefacing this by reproducing a comment I made 0n kirbycairo’s post, A Dark Hour Upon Us. Kirby, one of our top-shelf bloggers, always provides insightful analysis and commentary,…
The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproduction
I have been reading the essays of the late critic, Walter Benjamin, most famous for his 1936 piece, The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproduction (an…
A Weapon Of Mass Destruction
http://www.conceptart.org/ The damage Stephen Harper has done within our borders is apparent everywhere we turn. But Canadians may not be aware of how much damage he has done to their…
And the Hair in his Niqab.
When covering one’s face becomes a pivotal question in an election campaign, you know that Canadian politics has arrived at an all-time low. Thanks to the Prime Minister, we have…
Stephen Harper and Lynton Crosby’s Monstrous Lock Box
Well there was Stephen Harper in Quebec yesterday, locking a promise never to raise taxes into a giant safe.Vowing to put a tax lock on our future. Stephen Harper is…
The Ethnic Vote in 2015
This has been cross-posted at iPolitics Waves of immigration throughout Canada’s history have made ethnic sub-populations key targets for Canadian election campaigns. Historically this has benefited the federal Liberals; the…
The Ethnic Vote in 2015
This has been cross-posted at iPoliticsWaves of immigration throughout Canada’s history have made ethnic sub-populations key targets for Canadian election campaigns. Historically this has benefited the federal Liberals; the party…
The Ethnic Vote in 2015
This has been cross-posted at iPolitics Waves of immigration throughout Canada’s history have made ethnic sub-populations key targets for Canadian election campaigns. Historically this has benefited the federal Liberals; the…
Jason Kenney and the Vanishing Ethnic Vote
As you know the Harper regime has expended a huge amount of energy pandering to the so-called ethnic vote.And nobody more than Jason Kenney, the man they call Mr Curry…