President Obama is frustrated with Senator Inhofe and his ridiculous snowball, and the other Republicans blocking progress on climate change. * “Look at what’s happening right now. Every serious scientist…
Your news links for today: Experts Urge Canada to Stop Threatening Piracy Notices – TorrentFreak Competition Killer: Why the Copyright Term Extension For Sound Recordings Will Limit Consumer Choice and…
A panel of British academics and experts furnish a very timely and necessary discussion of privacy, surveillance, ethics and the slow death of trust. If you are genuinely concerned about…
https://pilzylee.wordpress.com/ When it comes to shifting blame, Stephen Harper is a past master. Last week, in the House of Commons, he suggested that Mike Duffy made an inaccurate claim about…
Neoliberalism is the current way of thinking about the economic state of the world. It’s the thinking that has led to the financialization of nearly everything in the world –…
It seems we are supposed to do some sort of mea culpa in regards to Barrie’s MP Patrick Brown. Yes Babel-on-the-Bay originates in Barrie but we thought we had that…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Barrie McKenna takes a look at how the Cons are pushing serious liabilities onto future generations in order to hand out short-term tax…
The Ontario Economy: The 2015 Ontario Budget has revised the government’s real growth estimate up significantly from its 2014 Fall Economic Fiscal Outlook. Real growth for 2014 is now put…
The potential of the youth vote, about which I have written several times on this blog, is, without question, great. The fact that only a low number of young people…
If you've been following the trial of Mike Duffy, you know that the prosecution is having trouble making its case that he broke the rules, because it seems the Senate…
It seems Canada is about to end a long tradition of coordinating greenhouse gas reduction targets with the United States. With much of the densely populated east coast at risk…
Years ago I predicted that Canadians who didn't care about the way Stephen Harper was raping the human rights of the child soldier Omar Khadr would live to regret it.For…
The response to the proposed boundaries for districts in the House of Assembly has been…what’s the word for it? … oh yes, totally off-the-wall, batshit crazy. On the Burin peninsula…
I’d just picked up my prescription when Gerry took off down the road. Our town isn’t that small geographically, but it is–was–a one industry town, and when the factory closed,…
Our town wasn’t that small geographically, but it was a one industry town, and when the factory closed, people moved out. It’s not a new story, and it’s one that’s…
Robert Biel’s Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement traces the history of Eurocentric — and anti-Eurocentric — currents in the Marxist-Leninist tradition, arguing that this distortion was key to the development…
Fabulous ride today, up around Denholm, down towards Wakefield and then back past Edelweiss and up through a series of back roads that ended up with a four kilometre stretch…
“I know the math is difficult…” Jim Prentice to Rachel Notley during the Leaders Debate Apr 23, 2015 Ms Soapbox doesn’t like math. As a child she thought numbers had…
