Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Derrick O’Keefe highlights why British Columbia’s voters should be careful before lending any credence to the corporate media’s call for yet another…
May 2017
Respecting Human Rights When Negotiating Trade Deals
money Donald Trump ran a campaign that championed the need to renegotiate the North American Free trade Agreement (NAFTA) to better help Americans. Trump’s erratic behaviour means we won’t know…
My HuffPo BC election column: twenty-one years ago tonight
Twenty-one years ago, we B.C. Liberals were gathered at the Hotel Vancouver, peering up at some big TV screens, shocked by what we were seeing. It was Election Day in…
Free metaphor about BC NDP’s John “I’ll just watch you” Horgan
Stuck on the road: NDP Leader @jjhorgan's campaign bus bottomed out and is now stuck in Surrey. @ScottRobertsCTV's is there. #CTVelxn pic.twitter.com/DI1O1RNE4L — CTV Vancouver (@CTVVancouver) May 8, 2017
Life In Scarborough: The Buses Of Scarborough
On the bus in Scarborough this morning two youths were listening to angry gangster rap music on headphones. They were both rapping along fiercely to completely different tunes. They became…
Conrad Black on Donald Trump.
“He knows what he wants,” was the message by Conrad Black to a parliamentary committee examining the current situation on trade relations with the United States. The former Canadian and…
All That Is Solid …: Commodities and Reification
All That Is Solid …: Commodities and Reification: At the heart of Lukacs’ History and Class Consciousness is the three part essay , ‘Reification and the Consciousness of the Proleta…
Climate Change Morphing Into an Existential Problem
I came across this lecture delivered just over a month ago. I thought it important enough – to you – to post it here. I’ll let Dr. Ramanathan speak for…
B.C. Government Delays Release of Site C Budget Docs Until After Election
After many months of delay and an attempt to charge almost $1,000 to release an updated budget and timeline for the Site C dam, the B.C. government has finally agreed…
You Get a P3! And You Get a P3! Everybody Gets a P3!
SOURCE: CBC News: Sask. Spending Millions on Companies that Bid on Work and LoseSOURCE: Leader Post: Sask. Government Gave $5.6 Million to Companies for Failed P3 Bids When it was…
White Supremacist Threat in Ottawa-Gatineau: The Local Soldiers of Odin
The following is an article that was submitted by a reader and activist who lives in the Ottawa area and who has been researching the Soldiers of Odin and associated…
Political Prisoner Jaan Laaman, Locked in Solitary Confinement and Facing Repression for Speaking Out for Human Rights
TAKE ACTION for Anti-Imperialist Political Prisoner Jaan Laaman, Locked in Solitary Confinement and Facing Repression for Speaking Out for Human Rights Jaan K. Laaman, long-time anti-imperialist political prisoner, is currently…
Corporatism versus Unionism. That’s Why I Vote Green, for Environmentalism
I expect Christy Clark will remain Canada’s most corrupt premier when the ballots are counted tomorrow. She and her Liberal government have a 16-year record to prove they’re rotten to…
Certain Dais Call for Art and Article Submissions: Awakening Resistance
Call for Submissions CALL FOR ART AND ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS: AWAKENING RESISTANCE What: A call for art and article submissions on Awakening Resistance for the 2018 Certain Days: Freedom for Political…
A Pivotal Election in British Columbia
To all my friends in British Columbia. Tomorrow is election day: 1. If you haven’t already, please vote. This is a democratic right denied to many. Not to participate is…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dean Baker notes that a reduction in required work time could go a long way toward ensuring that workers share in productivity gains.…
Unions are critical in youth fight against precarity
Photo from RankandFile.ca “It is the instability, not knowing how many hours I would get in a week,” says Samuelm, who’s quoted in a 2015 report by the Workers’ Action…
Canada and the pirates of the Caribbean
1830 watercolour from Barbados Perhaps a new rule is in order: Everyone must take a history lesson before seeking some fun in the sun. Recently, NDP Member of Parliament Erin…
Unravelling the secrets of the National Inquiry
Photo by Obert Madondo During Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s election campaign, he promised that, if elected, the Liberal’s first order of business would be to conduct a national inquiry into…