Why we should welcome boatful of Tamil refugees into Canada
Why we should welcome boatful of Tamil refugees into Canadaby Harsha Walia, from Vancouver Sun, August 14, 2010.From the Komagata Maru carrying 376 Punjabi passengers and the SS St. Louis…
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Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation
Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupationby Nick Davies and David Leigh, from The Guardian, July 25, 2010.A huge cache of secret US military files…
Video: The Troops are Waking Up
Check out this great video of testimony by a U.S. veteran of the occupation of Iraq, talking about the evils of the occupation, and its connection to class oppression and…
The Haudenosaunee ‘right of return’
The Haudenosaunee ‘right of return’by Steven Newcomb, from Indian Country Today, July 12, 2010. (Link found via RDO.)For some 30 years, the Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse), often known as…
Toronto G20: Remembering Politics, Celebrating Activism
Toronto G20: Remembering Politics, Celebrating Activismby Mitu Sengupta, from MRZine, July 6, 2010.As news of the G20's Toronto Summit recedes from the headlines, which memories shall prevail? The answer to…
Adam’s fall
So this is what I can piece together. NOW magazine writes a glowing article on Giambrone and erroneously claims he's gay. Giambrone "laughs over" the story, light-heartedly corrects the record…
Adam’s fall
So this is what I can piece together. NOW magazine writes a glowing article on Giambrone and erroneously claims he’s gay. Giambrone “laughs over” the story, light-heartedly corrects the record…
Who will succeed Kyle Rae?
Longtime Toronto City Councillor Kyle Rae announced earlier this month that he will not be running for re-election in 2010. Rae was originally elected in 1991 after beating Adonica Huggins…
Who will succeed Kyle Rae?
Longtime Toronto City Councillor Kyle Rae announced earlier this month that he will not be running for re-election in 2010. Rae was originally elected in 1991 after beating Adonica Huggins…
Tell me why (I don’t like Mondays)
Or "National Post deathwatch part 23" National Post stops Monday editions in summer As CanWest sinks further and further into debt and tries desperately to stave off its creditors the…
Tell me why (I don’t like Mondays)
Or “National Post deathwatch part 23“ National Post stops Monday editions in summer As CanWest sinks further and further into debt and tries desperately to stave off its creditors the…
Order of Canada revoked from disgraced recipient
No, convicted felon Conrad Black still has his gong. The disgraced figure who has been stripped of his Order of Canada is T. Sher Singh, a prominent Guelph lawyer who…
Order of Canada revoked from disgraced recipient
No, convicted felon Conrad Black still has his gong. The disgraced figure who has been stripped of his Order of Canada is T. Sher Singh, a prominent Guelph lawyer who…
Meir Weinstein of JDL nailed by CBC Radio News World at Six
CBC Radio News has a report this evening on Meir Weinstein and the Jewish Defence League. Where other media outlets have failed to dig further into Weinstein’s past or that…
Galloway sues Farber, CTV, Kenney, Velshi
On Wednesday, I was the first to report that British MP George Galloway was suing Bernie Farber and CTV for libel. Today, Canadian Press reports on this and adds that…
George Galloway suing Bernie Farber and CTV
Word out of Montreal tonight that George Galloway made public during his webcast to Concordia tonight that he has launched a devamation lawsuit against Canadian Jewish Congress CEO Bernie Farber…
Kenney vs Velshi
Reading the New York Times' lexicological take on Canada's decision to bar British anti-war MP George Galloway from entering our fair land, I'm left wondering about the dynamics in the…
Kenney vs Velshi
Reading the New York Times’ lexicological take on Canada’s decision to bar British anti-war MP George Galloway from entering our fair land, I’m left wondering about the dynamics in the…