August 8: Eden Must Have Been a Lot Nicer Than This.
Let's begin today with some items sent by readers. The first two are the horror that international bankers have made of Greece through their usual assassination team called the International…
August 2016
China’s Economic Espionage Against Canada Refuses To Be Dealt With By Government
(China’s Artificially Created Housing Bubble In Canada Set To Burst Warnings Suggest) It’s been no surprise that Canada has long been in a housing bubble. Foreign investors from China have…
Kinder Morgan Review Panel Slammed for Perceived Conflict of Interest
Restoring oversight. Meaningful participation. Rebuilding trust. Such phrases sounded just so good when the federal Liberal Party first detailed its plan to address the environmental assessment and consultation process for…
Kinder Morgan Review Panel Slammed for Perceived Conflict of Interest
Restoring oversight. Meaningful participation. Rebuilding trust. Such phrases sounded just so good when the federal Liberal Party first detailed its plan to address the environmental assessment and consultation process for…
Will World Social Forum become leader the Left needs?
The annual gathering of the World Social Forum (WSF) – the left’s response to the elitist annual Davos World Economic Forum – is in session in Montreal until Sunday, August…
Will World Social Forum become leader the Left needs?
The annual gathering of the World Social Forum (WSF) – the left’s response to the elitist annual Davos World Economic Forum – is in session in Montreal until Sunday, August…
Will World Social Forum become leader the Left needs?
The annual gathering of the World Social Forum (WSF) – the left’s response to the elitist annual Davos World Economic Forum – is in session in Montreal until Sunday, August…
Will World Social Forum become leader the Left needs?
The annual gathering of the World Social Forum (WSF) – the left’s response to the elitist annual Davos World Economic Forum – is in session in Montreal until Sunday, August…
BDS is no BS – They Call the State “Pariah”
Jewish groups condemn Green Party for supporting Israeli boycott policy Leader Elizabeth May ‘disappointed’ by party’s vote at its national convention The Canadian Press Posted: Aug 08, 2016 10:09 AM…
Paying for It: On the Slow Death of Journalism
I watch Last Week Tonight pretty faithfully, but I do Monday mornings on YouTube rather than subscribe to HBO. Last night's show was all about the problem with people like…
Paying for It: On the Slow Death of Journalism
I watch Last Week Tonight pretty faithfully, but I do Monday mornings on YouTube rather than subscribe to HBO. Last night's show was all about the problem with people like…
Another Year, Another Record.
We have certainly outdone ourselves this time. We've gobbled up Earth's resources even faster than last year and that year was a record. Then again, we've been setting annual records…
what the strike meant to us, in our own words
Image: "We Hit Them Like A Wave" -- Diane DaviesAfter CUPE 1989 ratified our new contract, I said I would write about the intangible gains we made through our strike,…
what the strike meant to us, in our own words
Image: "We Hit Them Like A Wave" -- Diane DaviesAfter CUPE 1989 ratified our new contract, I said I would write about the intangible gains we made through our strike,…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of August 8, 2016
Here are the leading headlines from Wise Law on TwitterFighting the tax man: What to do if the CRA has ordered you to pay $50,000 in back taxesLawyers for alleged…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of August 8, 2016
Here are the leading headlines from Wise Law on TwitterFighting the tax man: What to do if the CRA has ordered you to pay $50,000 in back taxesLawyers for alleged…
After Conflict, Reach Out and Touch Them
An interesting new study has shown that male athletes touch each other more than female athletes after a sporting conflict. It also turns out that the male athletes demonstrate better…
If it’s democracy, it must be a ghost.
It always seems strange to hear people talking about our democracy in Canada. You get the impression that our democracy is some sort of spectre. We talk about it but…
A Symptom, Not A Cause
Donald Trump is desperately trying to hit the reset button, But John Cassidy, writing in the New Yorker, believes it may be too late:There was particularly bad news for Trump…