The Scorpion and the Tortoise.
Based on the story from Aesop’s fables. Told by David Rakoff on “This American Life.” The scorpion was hamstrung, his tail all aquiver, just how would he manage to get…
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New affiliate: changes to how one gets accepted here
First off, please welcome the newest affiliate to Progressive Bloggers: Centre and Left Secondly, I’m going to detail how I’ve decided to modify how one gets accepted as an affiliate…
Review: Orienting Canada
I have noted before on this site that when I go for a stretch of time without reading much history — by which I mean academic or lay writing that…
Liberals Can Expect Substantive Leadership Race
With the Liberal leadership race taking shape (Marc Garneau set to announce today), it is becoming apparent, this exercise will be anything but a beauty contest. One of the criticisms…
Mayor Rob Ford Countdown Clock
Instead of checking the news to see when the exact time and date of Rob Ford’s removal from office is, just bookmark the Mayor Rob Ford Countdown Clock page! Stock…
Rob Ford Is Not Out…Only You Can Guarantee That!
I CHOOSE YOU! People of the blogosphere and the vast and complicated landscape known as politics! Why? Simply because Mayor Rob Ford is not guaranteed out of the top spot…
Calling Out the Tellers of the Hell-monger’s Tale
Enthralled by Mammon, the tellers of the Hell-monger’s Tale seek to turn the planet from an earthly paradise into a living hell. In fact, burning up the world’s stock of…
Review: Terrorist Assemblages
I have complicated feelings about this book. In some ways, that I am choosing to work out some of these feelings in this specific review is arbitrary and unfair, as…
Canadian democracy—always good for a laugh
Headline: Conservative Joan Crockatt wins Calgary Centre by-election with 37 per cent of the vote. So … I will now have an MP most of my fellow constituents don’t want…
Mandatory Minimum Accidentally Applied to Powerful White Man
Many political observers in the Canadian province of Ontario are calling for a change to the law after a mandatory minimum penalty was accidentally applied to a powerful white man.…
Taking stock of yesterday’s by-elections
The media love a good narrative, and once they decide on a narrative they’ll do anything to force events into their box, whether the events fit inside that box. Right…
Oh Dear Lord – Prayer in the PEI Legislature
A couple weeks ago I was asked to go sit in the gallery of the PEI Legislature, during Question Period, as a reminder to MLAs that folks from the ‘Stop…
Buh-bye Mark Carney, So Long Ethnic-Friendly Promises -OR- Proof Carney Behaves Like a Liberal
Yesterday, it was announced that Bank of Canada boss Mark Carney was leaving his position at the head of Canada’s central bank for a position across the pond. This came…
Ron Hawkins—Reflecting on Rock’n’Roll Politics
Adam Davidson-Harden talked with the talented Toronto-based musician and artist Ron Hawkins in Toronto. You can read Ron’s bio and find out about his solo music and that of his…
The Progressive Right (and Rabble) Anger Sun News! #topoli
Alex Pierson, Sun News morning anchor, links to a story on Rabble calling for today’s Grey Cup to be used as a “farewell” parade to Rob Ford. Naturally, she’s angry.…
Racialized Policing
Readers will be familiar with the examples of police relations with Aboriginal people and Black Canadians offered by Elizabeth Comack, a sociologist and author at the University of Manitoba who…
By-Election Breakdown
– It is up for fair debate whether or not the Trudeau/McGuinty comments cost the Liberal Party the Calgary Center seat. There is no question Liberals had wind at their…
Only 3 in 10 Calgary Centre Voters Voted
Seems shameful, no?
Hackland Ruling Not About The $3,150
The ruling by Justice Charles T. Hackland was not about the $3150 that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford improperly solicited for his football team but about his arrogant and stubborn insistence…
Why The Rob Ford Verdict Is Good For Canada
That Justice Charles Hackland found Mayor Rob Ford in violation of the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act and ordered him removed from office bodes well for a more progressive Canada.…