Daisy is tops!
So sayeth NBC: Perhaps the most famous political ad of all time, this early television spot ran on air just once but generated enough media coverage to become a real…
July 2016
Sending cannon fodder to Latvia.
In 1941 Canada came to the aid of the British Empire and sent troops to Hong Kong. The Royal Rifles of Canada and the Winnipeg Grenadiers were supposed to be…
Dallas In Context
Chris Hedges puts the recent violence in the United States into a larger context. It's what happens, he writes, when the corporate state has become firmly entrenched:Globalization has created a…
Parents Need to be Nagged by Their Kids
Kids are always being told what they can and cannot not do, and new research says that when it comes to the environment it’s parents that should be told what…
Tony Clement and the Con Clown Meeting in Muskoka
As announced, today is the day Tony Clement, the King of Muskoka aka Gaz Boy or Gas Bag, will make what he calls an "important announcement." When he will solemnly…
Delivery #nlpoli
Michael Barber headed a group of officials for then-Prime Minister Tony Blair that was responsible for getting Blair's major commitments through the government bureaucracy and into practice.They called it the…
Slow TV
Norwegian TV discovered that 2 million Norwegians were willing to watch the train ride from Bergen to Oslo in real time. I did it both ways in person and didn't…
Slow TV
Norwegian TV discovered that 2 million Norwegians were willing to watch the train ride from Bergen to Oslo in real time. I did it both ways in person and didn't…
Slow TV
Norwegian TV discovered that 2 million Norwegians were willing to watch the train ride from Bergen to Oslo in real time. I did it both ways in person and didn't…
Slow TV
Norwegian TV discovered that 2 million Norwegians were willing to watch the train ride from Bergen to Oslo in real time. I did it both ways in person and didn't…
The Calgary Stampede’s vital cultural and political role explained, sort of …
PHOTOS: The Stampede chuckwagon races … exciting, but traditionally bad news for horses. Below: Stampede duds last year on Justin Trudeau, Stephen Harper and Thomas Mulcair. Did last year’s effort…
In this week’s Hill Times: punk rock, Brexit and Laura Jane Grace
Punk: anarchy, class warfare, contempt for political institutions, right? Not quite, maaaan. Punk rock, like all youth subcultures, possessed myriad internal contradictions. It decried racism (as did Joe…
Coming Soon: A federal by-election in Calgary-Midnapore
Jason Kenney said last week that he will resign as the Member of Parliament for Calgary-Midnapore when the Progressive Conservative Party leadership campaign officially starts on October 1, 2016. He…
from the front lines, day eight
Another amazing day!
from the front lines, day eight
Another amazing day!
Somedays I Feel Very, Very Old
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Amerika’s Untermensch
Today they're loosely known as the Tea Party. A decade or two before that they were called White Trash. To America's founding fathers they were were called "manure" or "offscourings"…
June 11:
Two political science professors, one at Wheelock College in Boston, the other at University of New Brunswick, have a a book on the market. But you won't find in the…
Fastball – The Way
This story is so, so cool. Wow.
Northern Gateway’s federal approval has been overturned – now what?
Friday, July 8, 2016 Last week we witnessed a major legal victory for First Nations opposing the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines and tankers proposal, a...