Front National leader Marine Le Pen has taken a sizeable lead over Nicolas Sarkozy in a new French presidential election poll. Read the rest of this post on the original…
Le Parti de Gauche dénonce “l’attaque de la librairie Plume Noire à coups de barres de fer et de battes de baseball” par une vingtaine de militants d’extrême droite ce…
As organized fascists have been attempting to make a presence and gain traction here in Austin, communists and otherwise revolutionary-minded folks have been ramping up our antifascist work. Read the…
‘DEBT HAPPENS’: Goldman Sachs just ran its first-ever ads trying to sell you something Consumer debt in Canada is, frankly, a problem. According to a recent report from credit monitoring…
‘DEBT HAPPENS’: Goldman Sachs just ran its first-ever ads trying to sell you something Consumer debt in Canada is, frankly, a problem. According to a recent report from credit monitoring…
Consumer debt in Canada is, frankly, a problem. According to a recent report from credit monitoring agency TransUnion, the typical Canadian now owes $21,686 excluding their mortgage — a number…
Can we stop campaigning on half a platform? Brian Jean and Jason Kenney are united in one thing—the conviction that they must free Alberta from the “socialists” and return it…
BCNDP Leader John Horgan (Flickr/BC NDP) and Premier Christy Clark (Flickr/Province of BC) You have to feel sorry for John Horgan, the BC NDP leader. He has had a hell…
So…. Anything interesting happen during the past few weeks? Yep, the events of November 8 and onward have sort of sucked and we would be lying if we didn’t say…
Trump Virus spreads: now at the University of Manitoba this week. Spotted by Prof. Helmust-Harry Loewen.
Kinder Morgan protest draws huge crowd in Vancouver Vancouver mayor warns of protests ‘like you have never seen before’ Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson The hour is growing late for…
Like all other sentient beings, I have been aghast at the inconceivable political tragedy playing out to the south. It has also been heart wrenching observing the stress the election…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Stephen Dubner discusses the importance of social trust in supporting a functional economy and society: (S)ocial trust is … HALPERN: Social trust…
Like all other sentient beings, I have been aghast at the inconceivable political tragedy playing out to the south. It has also been heart wrenching observing the stress the election…
The fallout from the Nov. 8 U.S. election continued this week. And just like nuclear fallout, the devastation will be long term. President-elect Donald Trump (my fingers had a hard…
The “Fourth Estate” is an antiquated term for unofficial social and political forces, primarily the media. Use of the term recognized, over two centuries ago, that the media affect social…
Kellie Leitch gets slammed in this CBC interview by Laura Lynch. Kellie Leitch wants to take Donald Trumps playbook and uses it to espouse a defense of WASP values and…
In one of my last posts I suggested that Donald Trump's decision to appoint the retired general Michael Flynn to be his national security adviser was a really bad idea.For…
The other day I came across the following stinging but very accurate indictment of those who voted for Donald Trump: Not all Trump supporters are racist, misogynist, xenophobes. All Trump…
Regular readers will be aware of a lack of posts of late and no commentary on the situation south of us and perhaps are asking how a blog about democracy…
