We should talk about CETA. But we won’t.
What a capital idea! (Pun fully intended.) Critics of the free trade talks with Europe are urging provinces to ensure any negotiated deal gets a full public airing before it…
pogge
Friday night blues blogging
Like so many blues musicians, Larry Garner is from Louisiana — he was born in New Orleans and grew up in Baton Rouge. Here he is performing Buster. One of…
A bunker-style session
Colin Freeze has a piece in the Globe and Mail reporting on an unprecedented session of the Supreme Court of Canada scheduled to take place on Oct. 11th of this…
A group effort
A year ago last March, I took Vic Toews to task for granting CSIS the authority to trade in information derived from torture. In that post, I described a scenario…
What Alison Said
Alison at Creekside on the appointment of Pierre Poilievre as Minister of State for Democratic Reform: Poilievre’s appointment is about a coming battle over election reform and robocalls. It’s been…
Now he tells us
A tip of the hat to impolitical for alerting me to this from a couple of days ago: Bob Rae has joined the National Advisory Board of Fair Vote Canada.…
Friday night blues blogging
This is Keb’ Mo’ covering Robert Johnson’s Kind Hearted Woman Blues. It seems like a good place to start (h/t to Moose at Classic Blues Videos). Tab Benoit hails from…
Friday night blues blogging
Outside Woman Blues was originally recorded in 1929 by Blind Joe Reynolds. This is Doyle Bramhall II at one of the Crossroads festivals (where they really seem to have a…
Would Scott Brison care to comment?
Conservatives fail to take human rights seriously in Canada-Colombia deal For the second year in a row, the Conservative government has failed to live up to its moral obligation to…
Friday night blues blogging
According to Janiva Magness, this is a true story: The Devil is an Angel Too. This is the second piece I’ve posted from this session, whatever it is. There doesn’t…
Friday night blues blogging
I’m opening with the big band this evening. But I’m closing with Buddy Guy so it should work out. This is Roomful of Blues with Jambalaya. I Won’t Cry was…
The rewards of blogging
I get one of these four times a year without fail. This one is to mark the summer solstice. You can click on the image to see the full size…
Friday night blues blogging
Good evening. This is the Heritage Blues Orchestra with Get Right Church. This is what happens when you let Jeff Beck into the White House. It’s a slow instrumental called…
That didn’t take long
June 10, 2013: Defence Minister Peter MacKay says Canada’s own secretive online and phone metadata surveillance program is “prohibited” from looking at the information of Canadians and is directed at…
Holding CSEC to account isn’t enough to protect our rights
Open Media, with support from Leadnow, has begun a campaign to demand answers from the Harper government about exactly what kind of information our national signals intelligence agency is gathering…
Friday night blues blogging
If you enjoyed the Son Seals performance I posted a few weeks ago, you might like this one too. This is On My Knees, taken from a TV performance in…
Friday night blues blogging
It’s Friday. Have some tunes. This is Jim Byrnes, with Steve Dawson on guitar, performing a Hank Williams song called Honky Tonk Blues. This is billed as Kenny Neal and…
Who are we trying to impress?
Canada ends all trade with Iran citing ‘grave and sincere concern’ over nuclear program Canada ended all trade with Iran on Wednesday, citing “grave and sincere concern” over the Islamic…
Friday night blues blogging
This is Kelly Joe Phelps in a recording studio in Vancouver performing The Holy Spirit Flood. There’s some pretty intricate fingerpicking here. How did I not know about the Heritage…