The Apocalypse Continues
This time, the California wildfires are threatening not only home and people, but the same giant sequoias reported on last week. Recommend this Post
This time, the California wildfires are threatening not only home and people, but the same giant sequoias reported on last week. Recommend this Post
John Langs carved “Anybody But Harper!!” into his 46-acre field of rye near Brantford, Ont. Each letter is 100 metres tell. Star readers once more offer their trenchant assessments of…
Here is the newest NDP ad, a clever sendup of the Conservative record using the job interview format so favoured by the Tories in their attacks on Trudeau. Recommend this…
By now, the majority of media pundits agree that the Tory campaign is in trouble; the degree of that trouble is one of the finer points the talking heads like…
Ad Busters has created a powerful anti-Haprer commercial that deserves to be shared far and wide. For generations, we Canadians were seen as peacekeepers, as mediators and as the inspired…
Samia Mazdar, whose parents came to Canada from Syria, quietly and eloquently discusses why she will vote in the upcoming election. She also serves to remind us of the values…
Recently, Robin Sears wrote a piece severely critical of the Conservative response to the Syrian crisis, a commentary prompted by Immigration Minister Chris Alexander’s disastrous appearance on Power and Politics.…
I just can’t let it go: Recommend this Post
I admit it; I am taking great delight in the mockery of the Harper regime: View “undefined” on Storify Recommend this Post
It is well-known among those who follow politics that governments frequently show contempt for the people that they ‘serve.’ However, rarely is that contempt telegraphed in advance of an election.…
Some of them are mute witnesses to over three thousand years of history. Towering and majestic, some as tall as the Statue of Liberty, the giant sequoia, native to a…
This timely message is brought to you by the folks at Operation Maple: Recommend this Post
Living in a democratic society, of course, entails the promotion, encouragement and defense of a diversity of views. With that I obviously have no quarrel. But, as the saying goes,…
By now we have all seen the terrible image of the drowned three-year-old Syrian refugee on the shores near a Turkish resort. The juxtaposition couldn’t be any more telling of…
H/t Memorial March for the Victims of Harperism H/t David Suzuki Foundation If anyone you know is not certain whether he or she is registered to vote, checking out one’s…
Unless they want to add complete hypocrisy to their many other shortcomings, members of the Harper base have much to consider these days, not least of which is their leader’s…
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain,” bellowed the ‘mighty’ Oz as Dorothy and her companions were discovering the secret of his power. Similarly, Stephen Harper would divert…
Although it was made in 2013, the following 22 Minutes’ video has lost none of its relevance: Recommend this Post
Given yesterday’s post on the growing worldwide governmental repression of civil society groups and NGOs, as well as the disturbing information included in my update, a video by Olivia Chow…
I was just checking my Twitter feed when I found this. Enjoy: Recommend this Post