Just a Flesh Wound
This is a figuring kind of post wherein I try to make sense of it all. I have all sorts of thoughts about breasts now. I had to get the…
October 2016
This week’s column: boo! Heckle!
(This is an open letter to my fellow members of the commentariat. The rest of you can read it, too. Ahem.) Dear Ink-Stained Wretches and Wretchesses: Look, I share you…
Unifor and Big Three Bargaining
Photo by CCPA Monitor • Unifor President Jerry Dias at Social Forum rally outside Canadian War Museum. In his essay of October 17, 2016, “Big Three Bargaining: Different Ways of…
I missed my calling in quackery
I missed my calling. I realize that, now I am semi-retired and counting my pennies. But I could have been like Deepak Chopra: rolling in dough, had I been astute enough…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Branko Milanovic highlights the futility of pretending that market mechanisms will produce anything other than profit-oriented outcomes – and the observation represents an…
The Qatar – Turkey Pipeline Story
Originally posted as a Twitter moment by Hector Morenco. I have converted the Twitter posts into a structured post for better reading, and for later reference. Soon the world will…
The Qatar – Turkey Pipeline Story
Originally posted as a Twitter moment by Hector Morenco. I have converted the Twitter posts into a structured post for better reading, and for later reference. Soon the world will…
Expozine 2016: Montreal Small Press Fair
Nov 12 at 11 AM to Nov 13 at 6 PM Église Saint-Denis, 454 Laurier E. ( entrée principale / main entry 5075 Rivard, accessible entry/ en fauteuil roulant 5050…
Banking on Privatization?
Finance Minister Bill Morneau tables his Fall Economic Statement on 1 November. We’ll likely find out then whether he has some has real treats, or if they’re planning more privatization…
Translating and Publishing Torkil Lauesen’s The Global Perspective
Kersplebedeb Publishing is seeking to raise funds to translate and publish the book Det Globale Perspektiv (The Global Perspective), by former Danish political prisoner Torkil Lauesen. In the 1970s and…
"President Trump"… History could bite us in the Ass. . . .
In the early 1930s many people in Germany and throughout the world were simply incredulous at the idea that Hitler would come to power. Mussolini had already come to power…
"President Trump"… History could bite us in the Ass. . . .
In the early 1930s many people in Germany and throughout the world were simply incredulous at the idea that Hitler would come to power. Mussolini had already come to power…
Oct. 31: What is a newspaper that uses lots of photos? Cheap!
The most important news of the day in the iriving press is that cranberry prices are down. To send that message home, the paper also offers three-quarters of a page…
This movie was made for just me
…and perhaps Coyne, but that’s it, no one else is allowed to see it, sod off.
My Canada Opposes the Nuclear Arms Race – No Brainer?
Perhaps it’s me, but it’s 2016, and despite how much JustinHarperTrudeau is maintaining CPC policy, I thought at LEAST nuclear disarmament would have been something Trudeau felt worth supporting. Despite…
Residential Schools – The Shame Canadians Really Aren’t Sorry For
Robert-Falcon Ouellette is in the process of introducing the Indian Residential School Genocide and Reconciliation Memorial Day Act in the House of Commons. Not everyone likes this idea of having…
Who Will the "Most Self-Deluded People on Earth" Choose Next Week?
Chris Hedges writes that, when Americans flock to the polls next week, a lot of them will be voting irrationally. There is no shortage of signs of impending environmental catastrophe,…
Myth busting: the FBI director and the RCMP commissioner
Since Friday, a few readers – and others – have suggested that the FBI’s move in 2016 was just like the RCMP’s move in 2006. With the conservative option benefitting.…