Joseph Stieglitz occupies Wall Street
The Nobel prize-winning economist addresses the multitudes gathered near Wall Street. The scene was surrealistic: megaphones are banned in this corner of the Land of the Free, so an “echo-chamber”…
Dr.Dawg
Sketchy
I’m indebted to Globe & Mail columnist Doug Saunders for this. I’d like to know what the follow-up is. Until then, I’m withholding judgement on the #fail part. Incidentally, this…
Ontario NDP: Oooh, scary!
The corporate media and their loyal spokesthings are worried about Andrea Horwath. It seems likely now that the NDP will hold the balance of power after the election this Thursday…
Solidarity to meet Godzilla
Standing aloof in giant ignorance, the Conservative government is about to backdoor an anti-union bill that addresses a non-existent problem. The Conservatives are set to take another hit at labour…
Xian love
Now that I have a Christian aboard, I see I shall have to step a little more lightly when I deal with the excesses of some of the adherents of…
Another slobber of hatred from Tim Hudak
Here we go again. Tim Hudak, desperately looking for ripe pockets of bigotry in the holes and corners of Ontario where Conservative votes may be harvested, issues a hate pamphlet…
The moral necessity of resistance
The corporate media are at last taking notice of the swelling #OccupyWallStreet protests: 700 arrests by New York’s Finest, engaged in their age-old violent defence of capital, cannot be ignored.…
Paul. Hat. Ring.
It’s official. Paul Dewar is running for the leadership of the NDP. In front of an enthusiastic crowd, so large that many couldn’t fit into the Pearson Room at the…
On ideological hit lists
Anwar al-Awlaki will be missed about as much as Clifford Olson, which is to say, not at all. The latter was a vile and unrepentant serial child-rapist and killer; the…
The Insite ruling
A slap in the face to Conservative bigotry and ignorance. This excerpt from the unanimous ruling, via Aaron Wherry of Maclean’s, really says all that needs to be said about…
No news is news
…in Harper’s Canada. With the active complicity of the corporate media. Susan Riley is on fire this morning. A column with content. ...
John Baird’s Canada
A country with no history and no name. A unilingual nation; and, oddly, one without a flag. (Presumably the latter will be flown elsewhere, by ordinary citizens to whom rules…
Hey, National Post–why the hate?
Why is the National Post publishing hateful messages from a Christianist nutcase attacking transgendered people? Decent folks are saying no to Stephen Harper advisor “Dr.” Charles McVety. They are refusing…
On a personal note…
I had my spinal surgery yesterday. There were odd complications, which puzzled the surgeon (and one doesn’t like to see a doctor puzzled), but they passed off and I was…
Arrest Dick Cheney!
If war criminal Richard Bruce “Dick” Cheney sets foot on Canadian soil next week, it is nothing less than a civic duty to place him under immediate arrest. If the…
No freedom of assembly in Amerika
NYPD thugs are continuing to launch unprovoked attacks on peaceful protesters. Several days of protests have focussed on Wall Street and the ruin its inhabitants have brought to the US…
NDP leader: "the one the Conservatives do not want"
Paul Dewar. As yet undeclared. I for one think we need a “Draft Paul” movement, pronto. Here’s John Ivison on Power & Politics (@1:07:30). The Conservatives are hoping for the…
Abousfian Abdelrazik and what Canada is becoming
After reading his article about the role of our out-of-control secret police in Abousfian Abdelrazik’s six-year exile, I guess I know how Globe & Mail journo Paul Koring spent his…
Canadian health care system up close and personal
A few nights of agony during an otherwise pleasing trip to Montreal with a close friend convinced me to avail myself of Ottawa medicare last night. My lower back would…
Troy Davis and the American death cult: blood will have blood
Another innocent man has been legally murdered in America. It wasn’t “the legal system”—let’s for once dispense with that personal responsibility-denying bit of reification. People did it. People without conscience…