The Neocon in the Oval Office
Photo by Brett Weinstein If Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes US President, she will be the first neoconservative to actually occupy that office. The neoconservatives have been an ascendant force in…
September 2016
150 Million Indian Workers Take Part In Largest Strike in Centuries
Photo by Ranjith On Friday, an estimated 150 million workers refused to show up for work in India and instead took to the streets to demonstrate against labor conditions. ***…
The US Election: an Exercise in Mendacity
Image by Rich Girard What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it, Brick? Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?… There ain’t…
Feds Appoint Chair of B.C. Industry Group to Panel Reviewing Environmental Assessment Process
The federal government has appointed the former founding chair of a vocal B.C.-based industry advocacy group to a four-member panel tasked with reviewing Canada’s environmental assessment process.* The panel is…
Not so valuable: Kellie Leitch
A snippet from next week’s column: Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch has been talking a lot about “values.” She sent out a questionnaire to Conservative partisans about it. Here’s what…
Justin, Wake Up. Are You Listening?
Beijing has signed on to the Paris climate agreement. So too has Washington. Canada? No. According to our gilded leader, we're not ready yet. The Dauphin, our Baron of Bitumen,…
Owner of Acid-leaking Tulsequah Chief Mine Goes into Receivership
Cleanup of the troubled Tulsequah Chief mine in northwest B.C., which has leaked acidic water into nearby streams and rivers for more than six decades, is again in limbo following…
All Governments Lie-An Investigation Of The Corporate Media
The State of the Corporate Media today-A Critique Anna Maria Tremonti interviews Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman and Fred Peabody an independent Canadian journalist and film-maker whose documentary-‘All Governments Lie’ will…
I’m Guessing This is Not a Good Thing
Strange things are happening in Russia's far north. There's been a small asteroid hit. Massive craters have erupted in the permafrost. An anthrax breakout from a long dead caribou carcass…
Putin Is Backing Trump. He Has His Reasons, Plenty of Them.
In the West, Vlad Putin is routinely portrayed as a malevolent force, a demon of sorts. Yet he is running a very large and somewhat powerful country and seems to…
Standing Rock protest grows with thousands opposing North Dakota pipeline
The CBC’s Tim Fontaine has been covering the protest at Standing Rock, North Dakota. This ever growing, and largely native driven protest, attended by hundreds of tribes, could lead to…
Canadian Values
Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch has proposed that immigrants be subject to a test for their adherence to what she calls Canadian values. “It’s not intolerant to believe in a…
Canadian Values
Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch has proposed that immigrants be subject to a test for their adherence to what she calls Canadian values. "It's not intolerant to believe in a…
Will We Let This Man Put An End To Canadian Health Care?
Dr. Brian Day is the face of privatization of Canada's health care system. Do you want him to win?
If you remember anything from last night’s presidential forum, remember this
Donald Trump is rape apologist. Wonder why.
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday September 8, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law.A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Sep 8,…
An Ad Campaign That Sells More Than a Product
It can be hard navigating the world as a person with a disability, be it mental or physical, and it can be even harder to make friends. Unfortunately there is…
New column day
Here, on the connection between unionization and secure employment income - and the importance of encouraging the former if people otherwise face no real hope of achieving the latter.For further…