Trump’s Freudian Slip?
Great news for Donald Trump. A new poll has him in first place in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Around the same time the poll was released, Trump…
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Going to jail for words
One morning in early June, Aaron Driver was walking to his bus stop in Winnipeg’s Charleswood neighbourhood when a white, unmarked van pulled up, armed men got out, forced him…
Will BC Be Harper’s Oily Watery Grave?
It’s been said before. Might as well say it again. A lot of British Columbians are deeply opposed to oil tanker traffic endangering our coast. Harper hasn’t got the message…
IMF Breaks From Troika, Says Greece Needs Massive Debt Relief and Now!
The Reich Chancellor is not going to be pleased. The International Monetary Fund apparently can’t bite its tongue any longer and has come out foresquare against Angela Merkel’s brutal austerity…
Countdown To Her Grovelling Apology
Its’ your time, CPC MP Wai Young. 5…4…3…2…
Restitution in Criminal Law
Restitution in the criminal law comes in two forms. Restitution is intended to rehabilitate the offender by making him immediately responsible for the loss of the victim. It also gives…
Response to Johann Hari’s TED Talk on Addiction
This is a guest blog post from Doug Chaudron: – British journalist Johann Hari recently gave a TED talk, provocatively titled “Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong.”…
Con MP Compares Stephen Harper to Jesus Christ
Well I must admit that even though I am an atheist I never would have compared Stephen Harper to Jesus.Not with that face, not with those horns.And not for bringing…
July 14: Wonderful!
The US and Iran have signed a deal that Iran will not build nuclear weapons – something Iran wasn’t doing, anyway. And will t his bring peace to the middle…
Press Progress: Conservative MP claims support for C-51 from Jesus
What do you think? Article by Press Progress Jesus saves, but did you know Bill C-51 saves too? That’s apparently Conservative MP Wai Young’s big takeaway from “all the stories…
Pan Am’s over-spending $-billions, but it’s okay ’cause it’s public money
If a group constructing a massive project for you set a budget of $1.4-billion, but later came back and said they were spending $2.5-billion, what would you do? Normally you…
Pan Am’s over-spending $-billions, but it’s okay ’cause it’s public money
If a group constructing a massive project for you set a budget of $1.4-billion, but later came back and said they were spending $2.5-billion, what would you do? Normally you…
Greece and the death of democracy, economics and civility
Greece and the death of economics, and democracy, and civility, and so much more Louis-Philippe Rochon Associate Professor of Economics, Laurentian University Co-editor, Review of Keynesian Economics Irrespective of whether…
Merkel’s Toxic Tonic
Has German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s subjugation of Greece inadvertently poisoned European unity? That’s how a pro-EU lobby group sees it. “The last few weeks have laid totally bare the European…
The Royal Canadian "Rent a Boat" Navy
There’s a new ship in Esquimalt harbour. It’s the Chilean navy’s Almirante Montt, a provisioning/replenishment/supply ship that we had to rent because we don’t have any of our own left.…
VICE: How Bill C-13 opened the door for the government to use Hacking Team malware
The Hacking Team software would allow Canadian police to hack into computers, mobile devices, or cars in order to track location or record metadata of citizens. Article by Justin Ling…
Thailand’s U-Boats.
It caused a bit of a stir when, a couple of weeks ago, Thailand announced that it had inked a deal to buy three, diesel-electric submarines from China. Over the…
In the Realm of Terrifying
CBC has a brief (7 min.) podcast up about the rise in anxiety in the population being reported by psychologists over the past couple of years due to climate change.…
BC LNG Bill locks in public rip-off for a generation
Ex-Petronas CEO Shamsul Abbas shaking hands with BC Premier Christy Clark in 2014 (BC gov photo) Republished with permission from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Policy Note. By Marc…