First Nation tells DFO it’s closing commercial herring fishery
Central Coast herring (Photo: Pacific Wild) Read this March 20 story from the Canadian Press on the Heiltsuk First Nation’s move to close DFO’s planned commercial herring fishery on the…
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How to Stay Under the Radar When Bill C-51 Becomes Law
Bill C-51 is an omnibus anti-terrorism bill that grants CSIS new information sharing powers and converts CSIS from a covert intelligence gathering organization to a covert enforcement agency. No wonder…
Podemos in Spain Ignite Alternatives
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On Teaching Topics Instead of Subjects
Finland’s got one of the best education systems in the world. But it doesn’t follow that every idea they have is necessarily and entirely a good idea. And this newest…
Stuff happens, week 11: A bridge too bent; freedom for cable subscribers
The bendy-bendy portion of Edmonton’s newest bridge. Here in Edmonton, the city is in the process of rebuilding a major bridge into the downtown. It’s the 102 Avenue bridge, which…
March 22: Just a short one today….
..and scattered in topics. I forgot to mention the Faith Page sermonette in Saturday’s paper. It was the usual holy wimp stuff, this time assuring us that St. Patrick was…
Fear In The Streets? It’s What He Wants
Those of us who have been following the machinations of our Machiavellian prime minster know that he seems intent on remaking Canada in his own malevolent image – a land…
Does the Hair want us to get a gun?
Canadians are getting mixed messages from their Prime Minister. His message last week to a gathering of rural municipal leaders in Saskatchewan was that there was a certain level of…
The Harper Regime and the Summer of Protest
As you know I was so happy to see thousands of Canadians taking to the streets to let Stephen Harper and his foul Cons exactly what we think of them.Because…
Harper History, Part 4 – Con Minority, Prorogued x2
Oct 2008 – Dec 2009, With conservatives reelected with an increased minority we begin to see their true colours with increased self promotion on taxpayers money using 10%ers, the start…
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
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Stephen Harper, Strangelove Flanagan, and the Politics of Fear
We know what he has become; the monstrous leader of the most evil political cult this country has ever known.A morally depraved demagogue who is using fear as a weapon…
Anti-Abortion, Anti-Gay Crusader Bill Whatcott Flees Canada
Bill Whatcott, a highly controversial anti-abortion and anti-gay crusader, flees Canada, seeks refuge in the Philippines. The post Anti-Abortion, Anti-Gay Crusader Bill Whatcott Flees Canada appeared first on The Canadian…
Pennywise!
I can breathe in this world.
Keeping Kenn Zeller’s name alive
I listened politely a couple of weeks ago as the woman told a roomful how she had been influenced so positively by a school librarian years before. “I was going…
Review: Queer Phenomenology
I have always approached understanding and writing the world in an eclectic sort of way. I’m not sure I could do otherwise, as someone whose formal training in these things…
Harry Smith the 92-year-old anti-austerity campaignerIs Coming After Harper
Harry Smith has lived through the good times and the bad times. He sees a return to the lean mean 20’s of his youth and he is going to go…
Photos from Mississauga-Lakeshore Day of Action
Haven't posted in a bit, but I certainly been busy with Liberal volunteerism! I've been helping to run canvassing for the great Liberal candidate in my home riding of Mississauga-Lakeshore,…
Photos from Mississauga-Lakeshore Day of Action
Haven’t posted in a bit, but I certainly been busy with Liberal volunteerism! I’ve been helping to run canvassing for the great Liberal candidate in my home riding of Mississauga-Lakeshore,…