Justin Trudeau to the Haundenosanee
Here’s three things that the Prime Minister said when he announced his party’s policies as they relate to indigenous people: To begin, I would like to recognize the Haundenosanee, on…
2017
Perspectives on Anarchist Theory in Canada
Perspectives on Anarchist Theory is the annual publication of the Institute for Anarchist Studies; it includes recent essays by IAS-supported writers, feature articles with anarchist views on contemporary issues, book…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday May 9, 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Ontario employees are prohibited from discrimination and harassment against any…
Sham 69! Off With Their Heads!
Picked up tickets this morning for Off With Their Heads (next week) and the original Sham 69 (next month). Stoked. Here’s two of the two bands’ best.
Bernier
The number of Conservative leadership candidates continues to shrink. Erin O’Toole dropped out the other day. And, if the polls are correct, Maxime Bernier continues to lead the pack. But,…
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…
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…