Go hard left, then go hard right
Either way, it’s veering all over the road. The anti-terror legislation isn’t tabled, yet, so no one outside a small circle within the government actually knows what is in it.…
2015
Balancing Act Important For Democracy
A guest artile by Jared Milne I’m currently reading Brent Rathgeber’s excellent book “Irresponsible Government: the Decline of Parliamentary Democracy in Canada”, which describes the methods that Canadian prime ministers…
Public service: a rewarding career
This is a small piece of information learned in my recent examination of business in Norway. In the article Two Oil Economies, I mentioned Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, the…
Acting Like a Leader #nlpoli
In his first major public appearance since cutting public representation in the House of Assembly last week, Premier Paul Davis flatly rejected the objections of the province’s municipalities and a…
Dean Del Mastro and the Barbarity of the Cons
Well I'm sure it's just a coincidence that on the day Dean Del Mastro appeared in court for his sentencing hearing. And demanded a mistrial. Former MP Dean Del Mastro…
You Deserve Better Wages and Benefits
Right wingers want to pay no tax. It’s hard to bleat about that in public without sounding like the greedy, selfish people they are. Instead, they say that public sector…
Craig Chaplin Memorial Award to be presented again this year; exciting details to follow
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Who will stop the Jim Prentice juggernaut?
The past few months have been a sobering reminder that it foolish to underestimate the staying power of Alberta’s 43-year long governing Progressive Conservatives. A year ago the scandal ridden…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cradled cats.
Del Polliaollo portrait
The drawing is better, the resemblance is better, but just not there yet. I should likely stop and just measure. The tendency to prettify and make cute is so unconscious.…
Stephen Harper and the Scandalous War on Marijuana
Well I'm sure you remember how last fall Stephen Harper and his Cons launched a massive advertising blitz aimed at the parents of teenagers who use marijuana.Whose exaggerated claims resembled…
Weak Economy? ‘They’ Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way.
Take it from Joe. Nobel laureate economist Joe Stiglitz to be precise. The near-global stagnation witnessed in 2014 is man-made. It is the result of politics and policies in several…
The Prevention of Our Breathing and Catching Our Second Wind, by Sanyika Shakur
We Can’t Breathe without control of our destiny! We Can’t Breathe under neo-colonialism! We Can’t Breathe with capitalism’s hands around our throats! We Can’t Breathe under bourgeois democracy! We Can’t…
Failure to consider immigration consequences of sentence an error in principle
R. v. N. F., 2015 ONCA 51: The failure to consider the specific immigration consequences of a carceral sentence of six months or more was an error in principle disentitling…
Daily Dot: The Internet is crashing the TPP’s party
Internet activists got all up in TPP negotiators’ faces yesterday. Article by Dell Cameron for The Daily Dot Fed up with secret meetings that will decide the future of trade…
The enlightened world of gaming
I have never played a video game. Never. I just never got the hang of it, or was too busy, or whatever. It looked stupid, frankly. I bought my sons…
Harper Government spent $7 million of your tax dollars to attack Justin Trudeau’s position on marijuana
In yet another disgusting abuse of power and waste of taxpayers’ hard-earned dollars by Stephen Harper and his government, it’s now been confirmed that a laughable “Health Canada” ad campaign…
LNG, Fracking and BC’s Energy Future: Nanaimo Event-Wednesday 7PM
Damien Gillis filmmaker and Rafe Mair’s partner in the CommonSense Canadian will be speaking at an event at Beban Park Social Centre, 2300 Bowen Road, Nanaimo, BC LNG, Fracking and…
"American Sniper" – to Chris Hedges, It’s America’s "Triumph of the Will"
What does the Eastwood hit movie, American Sniper, say about America in the 21st century? To Chris Hedges it says a lot, none of it good. “American Sniper” lionizes the…