Using data aggressively #nlpoli
These days campaigns are about collecting information on voters and using the data.The Ted Cruz campaign has been especially aggressive in Iowa with a mailer that highlights the poor record…
2016
Masked marchers beat migrants in Stockholm (repost)
Published: 30 Jan 2016 11:05 GMT+01:00 A gang of up to a hundred black-clad masked men marched in central Stockholm on Friday evening, singling out and beating up immigrants, and…
Interview with Out of the Flames of Ferguson (repost)
See an intro to this piece and an update on We’re Hir We’re Queer here. Who is Out of the Flames of Ferguson (OOTFF)? How did you all get together?…
Notley’s Royalty Review
Rachel Notley is driving Brian Jean and Ric McIver crazy. Every time they think they’ve backed her into a corner on the energy file she comes out with a creative…
Following the Leaders Behind Us-VIDEO
This post submitted by Linda Hill honours Harold Nahanee (1953-2010) for his leadership based on “following the leaders behind him.” Linda Hill & Harold Nahanee This post submitted by…
Security for costs of appeal available where appeal not frivolous, albeit weak and assets to pay available but hard to realize
Henderson v. Wright, 2016 ONCA 89: Appellate courts in Ontario have ordered security for costs when an appeal has a low prospect of success coupled with an appellant who has…
TREATING OURSELVES AS WE WOULD TREAT OTHERS
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Elizz for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Recently, I was chatting with friends about why caregivers have so…
Feb. 1: The things I cannot have.
I learned very early in childhoood that my family could not have a car. We could not have heat in our home after supper. We could not go for a…
Notley quite correctly accepted the Royalty Review Panel’s conclusions
The Alberta Royalty Review Advisory Panel has concluded its study and issued its report. One of its conclusions, and certainly its most controversial, was, "Alberta’s total fiscal take (including royalties)…
Yanis Varoufakis on the need for the democratization of Europe
Filed under: Europe, Eurozone crisis, Uncategorized Tagged: Eurozone Crisis
So long Ed Murrow and hard-hitting mainstream journalism
Rafe Mair on the death of hard-hitting mainstream journalism: "The world will get by without Woodward and Bernstein and Edward R. Murrow - but it won't be as good a…
Behind Turkey’s war on the Kurds
Photo by quapan Turkey is rapidly descending into civil war as the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan deepens its offensive against the Kurdish population, left-wing opposition parties, journalists an...
Palestinian Popular Resistance
Photo by Heri Rakotomalala A new generation of Palestinians is marching on the footsteps of previous generations, rising up against Israel’s brutal, decades-old system of occupation, settler colonialism ...
An arbitrary guide to TCM’s 31 Days of Oscar, week 1
I admit it. I’m a Turner Classic Movies junkie.If that makes me an old man, so be it. I am old (almost 60, which at least makes me the young…
Damn Those Dams
Dams were a popular way (and still are in some places) to manipulate water reserves for people and as a way to generate energy. The problem with this naturally flowing…
What’s That Sound? It’s Jackboots Marching For Trump.
Well at least they're not turning out in brown shirts, not yet at least. Still there's no denying that America's authoritarian right primary voters know their man - Donald J.…
It’s Time America and Her Posse Had a New Mideast Policy. Enough of This "Fool’s Errand."
The Sheriff (USA) and his posse (Canada and our fellow minions) are not doing all that well in the Middle East these days. Fact is we haven't been doing much…
A Well Of Humanity
Sometimes the world seems to be a cold and uncaring pace. But at other times, it proves itself to be anything but:Recommend this Post
Now, Sit Still While I Shoot You Down
Lockheed has spent years, many years, telling the world that its F-35, supposedly stealthy, light attack bomber is unlike any warplane in the sky today. Turns out they're right.Recent reports…
“Care as a relationship” is key to good long-term care: research
What are long-term care residences around the world doing right? That’s the question an international research team travelled across North America and Europe to find out. Led by Pat Armstrong…