Good Riddance!
From my perspective as a serious consumer of news, Leslie Roberts will not be missed. Recommend this Post
2015
Separated at birth: Boyle edition #nlpoli
Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle (Read more…)
In Friday’s Sun: it’s (still) the economy, stupid
It’s the economy, stupid. That’s what Bill Clinton’s top strategist, James Carville, famously wrote on a piece of paper, a generation ago. He then put it up on the wall…
National Post: How the Canadian government can crack down on copyright bullies
U.S. copyright trolls have been exploiting loopholes to bully Canadian downloaders. Go to https://OpenMedia.ca/Shakedown to fight back and check out the link below to learn more. Article from the National…
Greek election, and the end of the world
As mentioned in a prior post, Greece goes to the polls in 10 days. This is perhaps the most important election in the history of that country. Why? It has…
je suis FFIBS
Filed under: Cartoons (Strips)
What’s Next? Thoughtcrime?
Yesterday I wrote a brief post on how the French government, despite massive outpourings in defense of free speech in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, is moving to…
Demand justice for Lemon Creek
Thursday, January 15, 2015 We need your help to get justice for Lemon Creek and the residents of the Slocan Valley. Please take a moment to ask the Canadian Department…
Russell Brand Skewers FOX News
The idiots at FOX really have only themselves to blame for this.
The case against a revenue-neutral carbon tax
I’m a fan of carbon taxes, but increasingly I see the term “revenue-neutral” attached to it. Where I live, in BC, we have perhaps the most prominent example of a…
The Nine Really Deadly Sins. Another One Falls.
Five years ago a team of 30-scientists formulated a list of nine ecological tipping points mankind must not cross. Consider them the planetary nine deadly sins. A report in Scientific…
A Message From the Dispossessed
28 Millimeters Portraits of a Generation, Braquage, Ladj Ly by JR, Les Bosquets, Montfermeil, 2004 The terrorist attack in France that took place at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo was…
Nous Sommes Tous Charlie… de Gaulle!
Photo by Valentina Calà In politics there is a golden rule: beware agreements that cut across all political currents! The tragedy of Charlie Hebdo has been turned into a farce…
Fear Campaign
Fear is a primal response, instilled in us by evolution as a survival mechanism. Recognizing when to be afraid has kept our species alive on a planet where we are…
Feeding Europe’s Islamophobia (And Our Own?)
Europe’s Islamophobes know a good thing when they see it and, according to Der Spiegel, they’re making the most of the Charlie Hebdo massacre. This week’s events in France could…
Do Non-Profits Hold the Key to Political Participation in Canada?
Canadians give more of their time to the non-profit sector than to organized politics. While only 10 per cent have volunteered on a political campaign in the last five years,…
"Man Has Gone Too Far." Pope Francis Comes Out Swinging.
What better place to speak out against climate change than the severe storm ravaged Philippines? Wading into the climate change debate on board the papal plane, the Pope told journalists…
Globe and Mail: New anti-spam measures target malware
We’re happy to see new measures to prevent software from being installed on Canadians’ computers without consent. Check out this article for a deep dive on what these new rules…
The Enemy Within. At Some Point You Have to Take Sides.
Don’t waste your breath. It’s futile to try to work with energy giants on environmental issues at least according to one of Britain’s leading environmentalists, Jonathon Porritt, who has thrown…
‘Je suis Charlie’? Not I. Here’s why…
Photo by Claude Truong-Ngoc Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people are taking to the streets in France and elsewhere in Europe and North America to protest the brutal murderous…