Voter, Inform Thyself
Nation, one of the great truisms of politics is that "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". Voters who know something to be true - or even worse, FEEL it…
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Voter, Inform Thyself
Nation, one of the great truisms of politics is that “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”. Voters who know something to be true – or even worse, FEEL it…
Voter, Inform Thyself
Nation, one of the great truisms of politics is that "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing".Voters who know something to be true - or even worse, FEEL it to…
Israel’s Bogus Civil War
Photo by Kristoffer Trolle Nazareth. Is Israel on the verge of civil war, as a growing number of Israeli commentators suggest, with its Jewish population deeply riven over the future…
The dead end of wage labour
Occupy Detroit rally, Grand Circus Park, October 14, 2011. By Stiofan 1919 (Flickr). It is a central irony of the history of the Left that it so frequently comes to…
B.C. Coastal First Nations Conservation Economy Booming: New Report
The tiny community of Klemtu has been transformed over the last decade as funding from Great Bear Rainforest agreements allowed members of the Kitasoo/Xai’xais First Nation to revamp their tourism…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Henning Meyer interviews Tony Atkinson about the readily-available options to combat inequality - with the first step being to make sure people actually have…
Can you fight fire with fire?
Got an interesting complaint from a frequent reader: he disagrees with our Morning Line assessment of the Republican candidate in the coming Presidential election in the United States. He thinks…
Catalan Independence Struggle Impedes Formation of Spanish Government
Filed under: Europe, Eurozone crisis, Uncategorized Tagged: Catalonia, Spain
Eating up the Hill: Tim Hortons and the saga of the devolving Apple Fritter
Like many Canadians, Tim Hortons is often a part of my morning routine. Not for coffee — I’m not a coffee drinker — but a few days a week I’ll…
Eating up the Hill: Tim Hortons and the saga of the devolving Apple Fritter
Like many Canadians, Tim Hortons is often a part of my morning routine. Not for coffee -- I'm not a coffee drinker -- but a few days a week I'll…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Friday September 16, 2016. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates.A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Sep…
No Noble Savages
Chris Hedges had hoped that Bernie Sanders would spark a revolution. Unfortunately, he writes, the revolution was still-born:The naive hopes of Bernie Sanders’ supporters—to build a grass-roots political movement, change…
Changes in the fishery #nlpoli
Your humble e-scribbler was on The Broadcast with Jane Adey, discussing the campaign to split the inshore fishermen from the FFAW. Give it a listen if you missed it: CBC…
Bottom Of the Barrel Brad
What’s with Saskatchewan generating unkind Conservative politicians named Brad? Brad “Bumpkin” “Two Finger” Trost threw together some stock images into a meme against people in love being married. Something inadvertantly…
Decolonizing Cottage Country: Anishinaabe Art Intervenes in Canada’s Wild Rice War
Photo by Sean Carleton A battle is raging between cottagers and Mississauga Anishinaabe over the harvesting of wild rice (minomiin, manomin, or manoomin) on Pigeon Lake. The conflict, which started…
Another Liberal Loser – EnviroMin Catherine McKenna
She's failing as an environment minister and she's failing Canada. After a grand (perhaps "grandiose") start full of promise, Catherine McKenna has squandered her opportunity and morphed into an enviromin…
Wherein Rafe Mair Outs BC Green Leader, Andrew Weaver, As a Closet Christy Clark Liberal
It took the Boycott/Sanction/Divest controversy to smoke him out but Andrew Weaver, erstwhile leader of the British Columbia Green Party is anything but Green. Rafe Mair has Weaver's number.It's small…
Why Is Premier Kathleen Wynne Misinforming Parents on The New Autism Program?
This question was asked by Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown in question period twice today, only to be asked by the speaker of the legislature to withdrawal the questions.…