Great Paintings – Las Meninas
Las Meninas (Spanish for The Maids of Honour) is a 1656 painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age, in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.…
2015
Great Paintings – Las Meninas
Las Meninas (Spanish for The Maids of Honour) is a 1656 painting by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age, in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.…
Chican@ Power and the Struggle for Aztlan Author: a MIM(Prisons) Study Group
From the Amerikan invasion and theft of Mexican lands, to present day migrants risking their lives to cross the U.$. border, the Chican@ nation has developed in a cauldron of…
Sept. 8: Trivial news; trivial election
Federal elections are almost always fought on trivialities In the U.S., Trump is a big challenge just milking the relatively minor issue of Mexicans crossing the border. This is a…
Both Trudeau and Mulcair should keep the other man on a short leash
The Mulcair or Trudeau Short Leash Polls show the Conservatives slipping, and the NDP and LPC in a dead heat for the role of replacement government, but neither of those…
The Greens: A party that plays politics just like the others
Photo by ItzaFineDay After a visit by the Green Party’s Elizabeth May to Powell River on July 31, she was quoted in the local newspaper: “There is no chance of…
Conscience, Human Rights, and a Kentucky Clerk
So inevitably, a blog that’s all about religious freedom would need to comment on the ongoing troubles of Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, and her stand against issuing marriage licenses to…
Conscience, Human Rights, and a Kentucky Clerk
So inevitably, a blog that’s all about religious freedom would need to comment on the ongoing troubles of Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, and her stand against issuing marriage licenses to…
Media discourse and the Cuban question
Cuba, the Media, and the Challenge of Impartiality Salim Lamrani Monthly Review Press, 2015 Salim Lamrani is a French journalist and academic. His 2013 volume on Cuba and the West,…
The dehumanizing power of institutions
Human on the Inside: Unlocking the Truth About Canada’s Prisons Gary Garrison University of Regina Press, 2014 Writing prescriptively about incarceration is to wrestle with abstractions. Contained in each statistic…
Briefing Note On Recent Political Developments In Greece
Photo from Public Domain To all member and observer parties of the European Left To all fraternal and friendly left and progressive parties Dear comrades and friends, In 20 August,…
Ontario: Keep It Smutty
You want your kids learning about sex from ThePornDude.com or HardSexTube.com or SpankWire.com? Me neither. And there’s a good reason for that. Yeah, because it’s better that kids learn about…
September 9th is FASD International Awareness Day – A Great Chance to Learn More!
Tomorrow, September 9th, is International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day. FASD is the only wholly preventable neurodevelopmental disability – we need to create awareness in order to eradicate…
Election October 19: The REAL ballot box question of Canadians
The Two Ballot Box Questions Much as the CPC, NDP and LPC try to frame the ballot box question for the October 19 election, voters have their own views of…
40 years ago this week
…I met the guy on the left, there, Ras Pierre Schenk. He’d go on to become my best friend, among other things (eg., we were the biker-jacketed John and Paul…
B.C. Handed Out Scientifically Flawed Fracking Water Licence to Nexen: Appeals Board
The B.C. Environmental Appeal Board has ruled the province failed to properly consult the Fort Nelson First Nations and employ adequate scientific modelling when it approved a long-term water withdrawal…
The Story Of Gerry Bance
From Canadian Cincinnatus, some background:I attended the Conservative nomination meeting, which was held this spring, in order to support my favoured candidate, Paul Egli, a retired and distinguished businessman. In…
Libs and Cons make pronouncements…..AHEM!
IF elected, the Harpercons have announced that they will: A re-elected Conservative government would give a boost to some families trying to save money for post-secondary education, Tory Leader Stephen…
You Know You Don’t Like It But Do You Know What It Is?
I don’t like neoliberalism. I think that, like most simplistic “purist” ideas, it has run its course and, rather than delivering its grandiose promises, it has inflicted some serious parasitic…