What is ‘news’?
There’s a question I’ve daily had reason to ask as I suffer through the pages of the Irving press. It struck me again, forcibly, as I read section A of…
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Misapprehension of evidence involves a "stringent standard"
R. v. Bonnington, 2015 ONCA 122:Misapprehension of evidence involves a “stringent standard”: R. v. Lohrer, 2004 SCC 80, 3 S.C.R. 732, at paras. 1-2. This standard is met only “here…
Is a socialist EU possible via left-wing populist parties such as Syriza, Podemos and the HDP? | openDemocracy
Is a socialist EU possible via left-wing populist parties such as Syriza, Podemos and the HDP? | openDemocracy. Filed under: Europe, Socialism Tagged: EU, Europe, Podemos, Socialism, Syriza
Rafe Mair–Exploiting Fear is ‘Wrong and Racist’
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Canada is facing a deliberate overheated racist attack against Muslims launched and fuelled by our Prime Minister Steve Harper. Steve’s latest is his attack against Muslim women…
Iceland’s Supreme Court Upholds Jail Sentences of Four Banking Executives
Filed under: Capitalism, Crisis, Europe Tagged: Financial crisis, Iceland
The Tyranny of the Talking Point
Dear government spin doctor, I am working on a story about how the job you’re doing is helping to kill Canada’s democracy. I know that your role, as a so-called…
Why we can’t be friends when you’re in Hawaii
My cousin is in Hawaii right now, and I have vowed that she and I can NOT be friends until she is home. Now. She’s a professional photographer, so all…
The Tyranny of the Talking Point
Dear government spin doctor, I am working on a story about how the job you’re doing is helping to kill Canada’s democracy. I know that your role, as a so-called…
How Often Were Willie Soon’s Industry-Funded “Deliverables” Referenced by the IPCC?
Thanks to a bombshell investigation reported over the weekend by The New York Times, The Guardian, Inside Climate News and more, we now know that the prominent climate denialist Willie…
Reading The Greek Deal Correctly
Reading The Greek Deal Correctly. James K. Galbraith On Friday as news of the Brussels deal came through, Germany claimed victory and it is no surprise that most of the…
How Often Were Willie Soon’s Industry-Funded “Deliverables” Referenced by the IPCC?
Thanks to a bombshell investigation reported over the weekend by The New York Times, The Guardian, Inside Climate News and more, we now know that the prominent climate denialist Willie…
To So-Called Liberals Who Slam Trudeau Over His ISIS Policy
Sometimes even I have to stand up for Justin Trudeau. He has been attacked recently for his less than bloodthirsty views on ISIS. Some of these attacks come from self-identified…
Rafe: Federal leaders out of touch on LNG, fracking
Thomas Mulcair, Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau Prime Minister Stephen Harper has thrown down the gauntlet with his promise of federal tax giveaways for LNG enterprises. I expected this sort…
Canadian Political Reporting Suffers Another Blow
But this time, the blow comes from within. Thanks to Ed Tanas for bringing the following to my attention: Ottawa reporters, photographers and cameramen face expulsion from Parliament Hill on…
Screw Oversight! In HarperLand, We Watch YOU, You Don’t Watch Us.
What’s the point in having domestic spying if it means you’re going to be, oh I don’t know, “accountable?” Canada’s Closet Clausewitz, def min Jason Kenney, says there’ll be no…
Yikes: check out the Ontario numbers
42 for the Cons, 34 for the Grits. Hmm. Looks like the CPC Quebec surge isn’t a myth, after all. Has happened. Wow. All weird, IMHO, when you look at…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, February 23, 2015
Your news links for today: ‘Citizenfour,’ the Edward Snowden documentary, wins an Oscar – Daily Dot How the NSA’s Firmware Hacking Works and Why It’s So Unsettling – WIRED Obama…
John Oliver Rips the Lid Off America’s Corrupt Judiciary
America is the ultimate “transactional democracy.” A look at its “bought and paid for” Congress, the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson or ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, shows that democracy…
On WWE Fastlane from Sunday, February 22nd, 2015
On the very same night as the Oscars were disseminating from Hollywood, the WWE produced a live pay-per-view that looked intriguing on paper, especially from the standpoint of not knowing…