Stephen Harper and the Insanity of the Con Regime
As Stephen Harper continues his desperate struggle to snatch another bloody majority there can be no doubt that the stress is getting to him.And one can't help get the feeling…
2015
Two Tory budgets for the price of one.
It was Ontario’s turn this past week. How often do we get two Tory budgets at a time? On Tuesday, we had a laugh at federal Finance Minister Joe Oliver’s…
Saturday Photo: Forsythia, a First Sighting
One of the most spectacular flowers of spring around here is forsythia, whose flowers burst forth on bare branches. Saw the first ones this week, growing along a sunny wall…
It Deserves A Horse Laugh
http://www.macleans.ca/ The tabling of the budget last week signalled the beginning of the election campaign. A careful reading of the document makes clear that Stephen Harper’s election strategy will be…
Harper History, Part 5A – Information witheld , Omnibus Budget
Mar 2010 – June 2010 If the period before the second prorogation of Parliament was deemed “dysfunctional” the period from when parliament returned in March and the following 12 months…
Rona Ambrose and the Great Con War on Marijuana
You might think that the Harper regime had annoyed the people of Vancouver enough recently, with their slow response to the oil spill in English Bay.And their outrageous claims that…
Shame
The one responsible for the biggest abridgement of civil liberties in Toronto’s history – the one who defended carding non-white citizens. Running for the Liberal Party of Canada. What a…
#LifeWithNDP
If you’ve yet to come across it on the Twitterverse, there is a semi-popular hashtag circulating among the various conservative politicos that talk about how bad life and the economy…
In Medicine Hat, Homelessness Is (Almost) Over
Medicine Hat Mayor Ted Clugston: ‘What we’re saying to other municipalities is that you can do it, too.’ Photo: David Dodge, Green Energy Futures. According to its mayor, Medicine Hat…
Review: Are the Lips a Grave?
When I write book reviews of scholarly books, I’m very conscious that I’m doing so mostly for my own benefit, as a way to deepen my own engagement with the…
2020 Solar Power for 100% of Saskatchewan Homes Possible
This letter appeared in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix on Saturday. In response to Kurt Soucy’s letter about the cost of powering the entire provincial grid with Photovoltaic (PV) solar power,…
The Armenian Genocide: An Open Wound
An Armenian woman kneeling beside a dead child • Photo by American Committee for Relief in the Near East To the memory of Stepan Shaumyan, Armenian Bolshevik leader of the…
April 25: Good for Brent Mazerolle
“All Moncton schools to go under review”. That’s the headline on A1. And, like every such report I’ve seen in this province, it’s all about costs and efficiency as if…
A Hard Luck Campaign For Minister Penis…I Mean Denis
Just some notes recycled from twitter: @davecournoyer @a_picazo Prentice to self: “I’ll just call an early election. What can possibly go wrong?”— Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) April 25, 2015 And: @a_picazo @davecournoyer…
Low-Wage Workers’ Struggles Are About Much More than Wages
Photo by Fibonacci Blue When fast-food workers first took the streets in New York City in November 2012 to protest for higher wages and a union, no one could have…
Far-left policies haven’t been proposed by any party, contrary to Prentice’s claims
Jim Prentice • Photo by Manning Centre Jim Prentice probably took some political science courses during his university studies, but it would appear he needs a refresher. In particular, it…
Naomi Klein, Jodi Dean and ‘Green Keynesianism’
Naomi Klein • Photo by Ben Powless Leftist critics of Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything need to answer a question she posed: ‘History is knocking at your door: will you…
Budget 2015: A tale of austerity past, present and future
Cross-posted from my blog. I’ve been banging the drum of “slow-motion austerity” for a while and little in the 2015 federal budget suggests any change from the pattern of death…
Woodfibre LNG: Shady PR, lobby violations, fraudulent, eco-criminal owner…Is this the kind of business BC wants to welcome?
Rafe Mair has been gearing up for this most important LNG fight over locating an LNG facility in Woodfibre. Truth is folks the LNG game brings us nothing but heartburn.…
Fred Checkers is watching you (if you’re an NDPer)
Michael Laxer reports on his Left Chapter blog on Fred Checkers and the state of internal democracy in the NDP.