Comrades, this is our moment. Tonight we smash capitalism! (The code word is Dzhugashvili.) OK, cheap laugh. Sorry, but how could I not? Bemoaning the debasement of public discourse isn’t…
Sometimes playing the nativist card can get you trumped. Harper ministers honking on about “foreign influences” stalling the construction of environmentally destructive pipelines (while they ignore foreign oil lobbyists and…
Yeah, I think that pretty well sums it up. Oh, and … @metromorning Spin, Denzil! Spin! #TOpoli — Sol Chrom (@sol_chrom) January 18, 2012 Related posts: City Council Scorecard: The…
via fordfortoronto.mattelliott.ca Can’t really improve on @GraphicMatt’s work here. In his words: Council has now shown a willingness to ignore and overturn key mayoral directives. The question going forward isn’t…
Bahrain is us and we are Bahrain, we are the Arabs of the Arabian peninsula, and we should not and will not allow any foreigners interfere in our Arabian Peninsula.…
An authoritarian nation is defined not just by the use of authoritarian powers, but by the ability to use them. If a president can take away your freedom or your…
Wow. Just … wow. I’ve seen talking dolls with those pull-strings on their backs respond more creatively than this. Where did she get the idea that evading a straightforward question…
Earlier this week, my good friend @cityslikr shlepped out to Scarborough to take in a public meeting about the city budget. He wrote it up for Torontoist; you can read…
There’s been some kerfuffle in the cybersphere about “radical conservatives” over the past couple of days, specifically in the context of Toronto politics, the city budget discussions, and the overall…
Selley: Nothing will force the mayor into a retreat on the Sheppard subway. He will insist on its viability and impending ground breaking until the day he leaves office, and…
Partnerships with Myanmar and Sudan… links to Burmese heroin traffickers… With this cast of characters partnering in the development of the Northern Gateway, you’d think Ethical Oil would be at…
Colton Orr says he has two main goals in mind as he exchanges his Toronto Maple Leafs jersey for a Toronto Marlies one. The first is to get himself in…
As the post-recession politics of austerity tattoo a bull’s eye onto the backs of workers in Canada and elsewhere, Iceland stands out as a refreshing alternative. Iceland was the first…
Every now and then you want to pause and re-evaluate. Is this working? What am I trying to do here? Is this the best way to go about it? Is…
Yes, I said it, the whole concept is brilliant. This is a fantastic way to change the debate to an issue that doesn’t really matter. Has anyone seriously thought that…
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We may feel, in the face of the ruthless corporate destruction of our nation, our culture, and our ecosystem, powerless and weak. But we are not. We have a power…
Income inequality is a symptom, not the disease. People realize that now. They see the symptom erupting in all directions, but, at a visceral level, they can sense the deeper…
There are some truths so hard to face, so ugly and so at odds with how we imagine the world should be, that nobody can accept them. Here’s one: It…
