happy strike-iversary!
The City of Mississauga has a community recognition program, through which community groups can have their banner fly at City Hall for a day. When the program was announced, I…
2017
Oh Canada, Our Canada!
Canada has just turned 150 years old and while this is a milestone worthy of great celebration, it is important to remember that our country is actually much older. As…
Oh Canada, Our Canada!
Canada has just turned 150 years old and while this is a milestone worthy of great celebration, it is important to remember that our country is actually much older. As…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Naomi Klein highlights how capital and power combine to turn disasters into profit-making opportunities – while noting that the Trump presidency is just…
Summertime at the CBC: bite me
I get it. The full-time folks are gone on holiday, people are a bit sleepy, Peter Mansbridge has finally (finally) departed. CBC isn’t firing on all cylinders. I get it.…
A Timely Reminder
George Carlin died in 2008, but the following could have been performed last night. Although some of the language is coarse, it somehow seems entirely appropriate: Recommend this Post
A Pivotal Moment
Michael Harris has written a must read column on the importance of journalism — real journalism. That kind of journalism is a group project: It takes an invisible team coming…
The NRA’s ‘Call to Arms.’
Anywhere but America, this would be considered an act of treason. Why anyone involved in directing the National Rifle Association of America is not locked away at this time is…
Roman Concrete
I remember some about this story a few years ago. I don’t think the formula for the Roman mix was well understood at that time. Portland Cement doesn’t cut it.…
Report calling for big changes to Workers Compensation in Alberta is a step toward ending WCB’s ‘culture of denial’
PHOTOS: Alberta Labour Minister Christina Gray. Below: Alberta Workers Compensation Board CEO Guy Kerr and the members of the WCB Panel, labour relations consultant Mia Norrie, labour lawyer John Carpenter,…
Two weeks until decision day for Conservatives in Alberta
On July 6, 2016, Jason Kenney officially launched his campaign to capture the leadership of Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives and lead them into a merger with the right-wing Wildrose Party. After…
Hackers Going After America’s Nuclear Plants
This is bound to bolster the windmill/solar panel crowd. The US Department of Home Security and the FBI have confirmed a series of attacks by hackers targeting companies operating America’s…
The Incredible Christy Clark
{An earlier version of the following column was written for the July, 2017 issue of the Anahim-Nimpo Lake Messenger--MC} “Incredible” is one of the most over-used and mis-used adjectives in…
The Incredible Christy Clark
{An earlier version of the following column was written for the July, 2017 issue of the Anahim-Nimpo Lake Messenger--MC} “Incredible” is one of the most over-used and mis-used adjectives in…
The Incredible Christy Clark
{An earlier version of the following column was written for the July, 2017 issue of the Anahim-Nimpo Lake Messenger–MC} “Incredible” is one of the most over-used and mis-used adjectives in…
On graceful exits
Last time fund-raising numbers were released from the federal NDP’s leadership campaign, I noted the possible significance of Peter Julian’s relative lack of donations. And the problem looked to be…
Three Indigenous Perspectives on Canada 150 in the Era of Pipelines, Dams and Mines
The massive “Canada 150” celebrations of July 1 are finally over, leaving little in their wake but hangovers, a multi-million dollar price tag and mountains of trash. But for some…
The Qatar Crisis
The June 5 decision by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Egypt to suspend diplomatic ties with Qatar has sent shockwaves through the Middle East. The ensuing…
Arthur Manuel’s battle against the 0.2 per cent Indigenous economy
Photo by Tupac Enrique Acosta As the pageantry around Canada 150 begins, Ricochet and our Indigenous Reporting Fund present “Resistance 150: Unsettling Canada’s Hidden Economic Apartheid,” a series honouring and…
Water Usage in B.C.’s Northeast Requires Indigenous Consent
By Grand Chief Stewart Phillip and Ben Parfitt One of the most important things that all Green and New Democratic Party MLAs agreed to in reaching their historic agreement to…