Saturday Photo: From Haiti, with Love
Something like 45 years ago I took my first trip outside the North American continent when my sister and her husband invited me to go with them to Haiti. He…
2016
Special Committee on Electoral Reform to travel across Canada
With a mandate to broadly consult Canadians from all walks of life, the Special Committee on Electoral Reform will criss-cross Canada this coming September and October. The Committee will use…
Special Committee on Electoral Reform to travel across Canada
With a mandate to broadly consult Canadians from all walks of life, the Special Committee on Electoral Reform will criss-cross Canada this coming September and October. The Committee will use…
Requirement to make transcript or detailed notes of statement
Criminal disclosure often but not way includes transcripts or at least detailed notes of recorded statements. Such transcripts or detailed notes can form a basis for cross-examination of a witness…
Just Another Chapter
The War on Terror began on this date fifteen years ago. Tony Burman writes that, fifteen years out, some lessons are crystal clear:First, it was preventable:The former president, George W.…
Donald Trump and the Madness of America (Continued)
There are now less than sixty days to go before the U.S. presidential election, and with every passing day the campaign just seems to grow crazier and crazier.For what else…
Where exactly is the ‘compromise’ Jason Kenney thinks the NDP should make on sexual minority rights?
PHOTOS: Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Jason Kenney back in the day … welcoming refugees? Well, not if they wanted health care. Unintended ironic juxtaposition, I suppose. (Photo from abbotsfordtoday.blogspot.ca.) Below:…
Stuff Still Happens, week 36: Edmonton’s shiny new toy is unwrapped.
November of 2014 marked the 40th anniversary of the opening of the old Northlands Coliseum, later renamed Skyreach Centre, later renamed Rexall Place, now back to Northlands Coliseum. As I…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Don Pittis writes that it will take far more than words and sentiments to reverse the trend of growing income inequality. Elaine Power points…
Sept. 10: Home again – and the final part of U.S. imperialism
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/02/what-the-us-bombing-of-cambodia-tells-us-about-obamas-drone-campaign/273142/http://legaciesofwar.org/about-laos/secret-war-laos/http://thevietnamwar.info/how-many-people-died-in-the-vietnam-war/T...
Indigenous nations lead opposition to pipeline development
Photo by John Heminger With the plans for an Enbridge pipeline linking the tar sands in Alberta to the West Coast temporarily blocked, activists are mobilizing against TransCanada’s proposed 4,600-kilometre…
On available alternatives
Shorter Murray Mandryk:A poll which shows the NDP picking up support from dissatisfied Saskatchewan Party voters proves my point that the NDP can't possibly pick up support from dissatisfied Saskatchewan…
Article in Foreign Affairs
Last year I was fortunate enough to get to attend a remarkable workshop at the University of Sidney lead by James Der Derian. It was part of a workshop series…
Review: How Queer!
Though the title emphasizes the personal narratives, this book actually combines its fourteen short personal narratives by non-monosexual people who are not professional writers or
Review: How Queer!
Though the title emphasizes the per...
Best Choice for Premier #nlpoli
Premier Dwight Ball has the lowest leader choice numbers of any Premier in Newfoundland and Labrador since November 2000.The chart shows the Corporate Research Associates numbers in every quarter for…
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner
Given the viscerally-stimulating ort that Kellie Leitch has lovingly lobbed to a certain core of the Conservative Party's constituency, it might perhaps be timely to remind the leadership hopeful of…
When Caregiving Feels Like War: Learn From the Military
The other day, I was listening to a banker talking about the volatility of financial markets. She used a term I hadn't heard before - VUCA. It's a military term…
Ship Of Fools
Republicans may chant "Crooked Hillary!" and "Lock Her Up!" But, E. J. Dionne writes, no one personifies the corruption at the heart of the American political system more than Donald…
Chanie Wenjack, Gord Downie, and the Secret Path
I never heard the story of Chanie Wenjack, an Ojibway boy who lived in Northern Ontario, until today.And although it made me feel terribly sad, I'm glad I did.Because it…