It is next-to-impossible to comprehend the magnitude of world poverty. See if you can visualize the faces of three billion people, many of them hungry children, flashing past your face…
The Globe and Mail – the Canadian media’s strongest supporter of neoliberalism and uncontrolled capitalism – has published a news story that questions whether the economists, business owners and governments…
The Globe and Mail—the Canadian media’s strongest supporter of neoliberalism and uncontrolled capitalism—published a news story today that questions whether the economists, business owners and governments that dictate the economic…
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a few hundred American freedom fighters who planned to occupy Wall Street. Police barricades prevented them from taking over the heart of…
Outdated first-past-the-post electoral laws in Canada mean that a minority, anti-government, anti-Canadian group of neoliberals such as the Harper Conservatives are able to rule the country unchallenged with a popular…
The CBC-hating Harper Conservatives are quick off the mark to get the debate going about whether the public broadcaster is of “good value” to Canadians.Today’s Globe and Mail reveals that…
In Kenya, I have seen herds of animals starving because the small rivers and lakes have dried up. In Sierra Leone, I witnessed people fighting for control over meagre water…
Here's an update in the NY Times on Saturday's protest, which I wrote about in yesterday's blog "Protestors to Occupy Wall Street - What actions can help us overcome the…
What are the tactics that can best be used to try to pressure powerful, self-serving, joined-at-the-hip governments and corporations in Canada and the United States to do the right thing…
What are the tactics that can best be used to try to pressure powerful, self-serving, joined-at-the-hip governments and corporations in Canada and the United States to do the right thing…
Ten years after close to 3,000 people died in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, we are witnessing hundreds of sympathetic events, reading millions of words,…
Ten years after close to 3,000 people died in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, we witnessed hundreds of sympathetic events, millions of words in newspapers,…
The spark that led a group of volunteers to set up Catch 22 Harper Conservatives just about a year ago was Stephen Harper’s rash and heavily criticized move to shut…
Mainstream media is failing to meet the needs of Canadians. News organizations lack the resources to cover many important stories and investigative journalism has all but been eliminated. Too often,…
This is the first of a seven-part series that will address the need to develop independent media -- print, broadcast and Internet-based -- in Canada.The long-anticipated collapse of the Asper…
This is the second of a seven-part series that will address the need to develop independent media -- print, broadcast and Internet based -- in CanadaWARNING: News from corporate-owned media…
This is the third of a seven-part series that will address the need to develop independent media -- print, broadcast and Internet based -- in Canada. Staff reporters at the…
This is the fourth of a seven-part series that will address the need to develop independent media -- print, broadcast and Internet based -- in Canada.Canadians might be surprised to…
This is the fifth of a seven-part series that will address the need to develop independent media -- print, broadcast and Internet based -- in Canada.While I have many criticisms…
This is the sixth of a seven-part series that will address the need to develop independent media -- print, broadcast and Internet based -- in Canada.Fully a dozen years after…
