More on Riverfront Park
When is a park not a park? City of Vancouver and residents face off Matt Robinson Vancouver SunMore from Matt Robinson Published on: May 13, 2016 | Last Updated: May…
May 2016
More on Riverfront Park
When is a park not a park? City of Vancouver and residents face off Matt Robinson More from Matt Robinson Published on: May 13, 2016 | Last Updated: May 15,…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Murray Dobbin argues that the Trudeau Libs' response (or lack thereof) to wealthy tax cheats will tell us what we most need to…
And Conservatives wonders why they lost the election
Wonder no more, etc.
Separate but equal: False equality and the political exclusion of children
Photo: Gordon Parks/ The Gordon Parks Foundation, from Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exhibit. Earl Collins and his daughter, Doris Jean, in St. Louis. Posted on the newyorktimes.com, Dec. 24,…
Son of a B#%ch, I Had it All Wrong
I honestly thought the Liberals won the last general election. I could have bet the farm that a Liberal government was sworn into power last November. At first it sure…
Electoral Reform – Choosing the Committee Members
This week the government has announced the structure of the all party parliamentary committee that will study what electoral system reforms will be put before parliament. Unfortunately they did not…
Electoral Reform – Choosing the Committee Members
This week the government has announced the structure of the all party parliamentary committee that will study what electoral system reforms will be put before parliament. Unfortunately they did not…
things i heard at the library: an occasional series: #21
Visibly anxious and upset customer: Can you please help me? Something is wrong with this computer!I go over to take a look. The public computer is still starting up, and…
This Looks About Right
H/t Graeme MacKayRecommend this Post
rest in power, daniel berrigan and michael ratner
The world lost two great fighters for peace and justice this past week.Daniel Berrigan was a lifelong peace activist, a man who was ready and willing to put his body…
Satuday Photo: After the Spring Rain
The roads aren't in great shape--the legacy of bad planning (probably) and a winter with a roller coaster of temperatures that turned the freeze and thaw cycle to new heights.But…
Satuday Photo: After the Spring Rain
The roads aren't in great shape--the legacy of bad planning (probably) and a winter with a roller coaster of temperatures that turned the freeze and thaw cycle to new heights.But…
Without it, how do you reform democracy?
Minister Maryam Monsef has been heard from. The maybe minister of democratic institutions has announced a committee of MPs will spend their summer studying changes to Canada’s election system. What…
Sophie Grégoire Trudeau and the Little Canadians
I couldn't properly explain why I was so disgusted by the way the monstrous Cons went after Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, for simply admitting she was feeling overwhelmed, and asking for…
Marketing Wow
Advertising and marketing, design and public relations, influence and persuasion – they all fascinate me. I love to listen to Terry O’Reilly’s show on CBC (both Age of Persuasion and…
hooray for tala
Tala is doing great! Of course she was exhausted and a bit wobbly when she came home, but now she's well rested and back to herself. And she looks a…
It Takes More Than Rhyme To Make Poetry
There are some ghostly similarities, Michael Winship writes, between the American election of 1968 and this year's election. 1968 was the year that Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were…
“Evil World Banking” Explained
In this animated video, John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, explains how terrorism and a “mutant, viral form of capitalism” are connected. “If we want to…
Proud punk Dad at Anti-Flag
So. Text Daughter this morn about Anti-Flag tonight. She texts back, says she was out to 5:30. At the hospital. Wait. What? She and Hannah, she said. A girl…