South Korean Protests Growing
Photo by Workers Solidarity For the sixth straight weekend, hundreds of thousands of Koreans came out in Seoul (and with other Korean cities estimates approaching 2 million people on the…
2016
She’s an Expert On Corruption in Foreign Lands. Now She Sees It Taking Hold In Her American Homeland
Sarah Chayes knows a thing or two about government corruption. The former award-winning NPR journalist, special advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, development worker in Afghanistan…
BC Hydro Plans to Expropriate Farmers’ Home for Site C Before Christmas
BC Hydro plans to expropriate the home of Peace Valley farmers Ken and Arlene Boon before Christmas, following the couple’s refusal to sign over their top class farmland for the…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cats with reindeer.
Field notes: A week of pipeline action and cross-Canada solidarity
Tuesday, December 6, 2016 Staff Counsel Eugene Kung recounts an action-packed week preparing for – and responding to – the federal government's approval of the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline…
Brad Trost is dumb as a post
What an asshole this guy is. I know he’ll claim he’s happy a Liberal is saying that – but one thing I also know: if Harper was still boss, this…
It’s Monbiot Again. This Time He’s On About Salvaging Democracy or Something Like That.
No matter how much Justin thinks it’s great, neoliberal globalism is a failed experiment. It causes a lot more harm than good. Even the WTO and the IMF now acknowledge…
Here Is The Most Important 2 Minutes of Your Day
Roll up your sleeves. Remind yourself of your key principles. Monitor your humility. List again the areas where you want and need to do the work. Share with fellow worker-activists,…
Corruption, Collingwood & the Collus Board
The Most Secretive Council Ever has comfortably assumed the mantle of The Most Secretive and Corrupt Council Ever. As I warned in a previous post, The Block was going to appoint…
December 6th – day of mourning for victims of men’s violence against women.
Today is December 6th. In Canada we remember the women killed this year in a massacre at École Polytechnique. Women were killed because they were women seeking training and jobs…
Democracy Against Neoliberalism | Jacobin
Matteo Renzi’s constitutional reform was politically illegitimate in method and antidemocratic in content. We should celebrate its rejection. Source: Democracy Against Neoliberalism | Jacobin Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Italy
Why Parties Matter More Than I Wish They Did (pt. 1)
Nation, it's important to me that you understand how much I hate writing this. I have long believed and argued that political parties will be the death of democracy. I…
Why Parties Matter More Than I Wish They Did (pt. 1)
Nation, it’s important to me that you understand how much I hate writing this. I have long believed and argued that political parties will be the death of democracy. I…
Social Media in Family Law Matters
BY SIMRAN BAKSHI and RACHEL SPENCE How much is it worth to bash your spouse on social media? These days, the cost could be more than you might think.Canadian Courts…
New Fiction About Life Under Trumpism?
Surely I’m not the first to write fiction about what life under Trumpism will be like? Look into it: Subi, the Archduke Ferdinand! As we pivot into what is somewhat…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Gary Bloch writes about the costs of poverty (and the small-minded attitude toward public supports which allows it to remain): We also…
December 6th: Constant progress, constant retreat
We take consolation in disasters from the idea that society might learn something and that the horror might never recur. The war to end all wars, the massacre to end…
Why Parties Matter More Than I Wish They Did (pt. 1)
Nation, it’s important to me that you understand how much I hate writing this. I have long believed and argued that political parties will be the death of democracy. I…
Stop Trying to be Happy
Want to be happy? Stop trying! The key to happiness is accept reality and not to imagine some greater version of happiness. Projecting oneself into a better future and striving…
Trump’s America
Somehow, the greatness is conspicuously absent: Recommend this Post