Supporting Our Democracy
SOURCE: CBC News: Harper Vows to End Party SubsidiesNow, this news should come as no surprise to anyone. After all, Harper attempted to pass legislation to this effect but had…
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Sudbury: Writing for Social Change Workshops
Just sent out the following callout for a series of three writing workshops for people interested in doing writing related to social change in Sudbury. I'll be facilitating the middle…
New Debates, Old Debates…
I'd like to take the time today to talk a bit about the yet-to-be-announced leaders' debates in this election cycle.As no real surprise to no one, the consortium of broadcasters…
Takin’ Care of Business
Source: CBC News: Ignatieff, Harper Trade Barbs on Taxes, SpendingWell, it's day three of the election campaign, and so far very few actual policy ideas have been brought forward by…
Review: <I>Gay New York</I>
A friend suggested this book as one of several to make my sourcing for a particular chapter of my own books a bit more r...
Structuring the Election
Source: CTV News: Poll says Trust in Conservative Government FallingSource: CBC News/Opinions: Scott Reid: Whose Fault is it if no one Cares?Source: Global and Mail: NDP Leads Federal Parties Vying…
Let’s Get Ready to Rumble…Well, Electorally Speaking.
So much news, so little time.Obviously, we've had two budgets: The Federal one, which has a snowball's chance in (well, you know where) of passing...Or even making it to a…
The Death Knell of Democracy?
Another abstract post today, as it's a topic that's been weighing on me. Though, we do have one semi-related source.SOURCE: CTV News: Don't Force Election in Wake of Japanese Quake:…
What’s Good for the Goose
It's an abstract post today, so brace yourselves.In watching Power & Politics on the CBC this afternoon, I was given what they call 'The Firing Line', only because of technical…
Video: David Harvey on the Enigma of Capital and the Present Moment
Check out this video of a recent talk by marxist geographer (and author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism) David Harvey. He is talking about some of the ideas from…
No, You’re Out of Order!
Source: CBC News: Speaker Rules Against Government, OdaIn a ruling that should shock no one, Speaker of the House Peter Milliken, has ruled against the Government and cabinet minister Bev…
Harper’s House of Cards
Source: CBC News: In-and-Out Worth $100,000 in PayoutsSource: CTV News: PMO Apologizes for Booting Media from Ignatieff SpeechSource: CTV News: Tories Defend use of 'Harper Government'Source: CTV News: Kenny Stands…
Challenging Conspiracy Theory Thinking
For more than a year, now, I've been toying with the idea of writing something that compares ways of knowing the world that ground materialist, radical left politics with those…
Review: <i>Seeing Reds</i>
We need more books like this -- histories of social change in Canadian contexts written for lay audiences and with an eye to co...
Sudbury Event in Campaign to Raise Welfare Rates
A section of the Canadian Union of Public Employees -- Ontario is holding a conference in Sudbury at the end of February. CUPE-O has decided to support the "Raise the…
Review: <I>Persistent Poverty</I>
This book is a simple one -- well done within its particular bounds, the product of a lot of hard work by many people, and as a ...
Review: <I>The First World War</I>
I have written before about my fairly intense political and aesthetic distaste for military history. Nonetheless, a possible project I have in mind intersects some with military histor...
Review: <I>Queer Attachments</I>
In the reading and thinking about shame I've begun in the last little while, this book is the first I've encountered that primarily app...
At the Radical History Conference in Windsor
From February 4th to 6th there is going to be a grassroots-organized, community-based Radical History Conference at the Workers Action Centre in Windsor, Ontario. I was a little late off…
Please Endorse Statement Against Security Certificates
In December, the Federal Court of Canada issued three interconnected decisions upholding a process whereby secret trials have been used in recent years to target and indefinitely detain a number…