Doug Finley
RIP, Doug. Last communicated with him in an email exchange – about rock’n’roll, not politics. That tells me he had his priorities straight. My condolences to his family and many…
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Independent MLAs, Candidates Shake Up BC Politics
Throughout the past term, BC’s three sitting Independent MLAs – Bob Simpson from Cariboo North, Vicki Huntington from Delta South, and Abbotsford South’s John van Dongen – have proven the…
organized labour is the only potential political force with enough critical mass & enough organizational capability to get things moving.
Here’s my take on the May Day CUPE Sponsored Workshops in Ottawa on Saturday, the 27th of April: It was an interesting affair for its lamentations and the myriad problems…
Who Cut Duffy Slack and Why?
A more than curious omission in just one of the Senate standing committee reports on Senators Mac Harb, Patrick Brazeau and Mike Duffy and their housing expense claims. What distinguishes…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Armine Yalnizyan makes the case as to why wealth equates to far too much power in Canada: The problem is not that the…
The playbook was left open
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Seeing as though this was on the front page of the National Post this week, one could say that the secret…
The playbook was left open
By Rick Hiebert. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission Seeing as though this was on the front page of the National Post this week, one could say that the secret…
Guy Merchie: Mysteries of Life
Something to ponder over the weekend: DIVINITY Who or What runs the Universe?Is there a plan behind the daisy, the hummingbird,The whale, the world?Who conceived the eye back in the…
The World We Are Destroying
My friend LeDaro often posts videos that depict the world around us, poignant reminders of what we are so blithely destroying through our heedless consumerism and governments that know the…
May 11:
The toll of dead women in the collapse of a clothing factory in Bangladesh has now reached a thousand. The corporations who bought their clothing are, of course, shocked. Gee.…
Introducing my Summer Project – Canadian Psephos
As we head into Summer 2013, I’ve been looking for something to do. This is mostly because, barring a provincial election here in Ontario, I suspect we’ll see a slow…
Bill Maher Gets Taken to the Mat on Islamophobia
On Bill Maher’s RealTime show last night, journalist Glenn Greenwald stood up to Maher on Muslims, Islam, and American foreign policy. It’s a long clip. Greenwald’s retort comes in around…
Monbiot – You Can’t Win on Climate Change Without First Vanquishing Plutocracy
Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, took the arrival of a recrod, 400 ppm concentration of atmospheric CO2 to deliver a few thoughts on our losing battle against climate change and what…
Adrian Dix is going to win
I don’t have any skin the BC ’2013 game. I’ve got friends in both war rooms, and I think they’ve all run impressive campaigns. Adrian Dix was assisted by the…
Conor Is Home From the Hospital!
Above Conor, and Mom, in the bottom pic, on the way home. Conor’s Mom stayed at the hospital with him 24/7, for 2 weeks Dad spelled her off at times…
Nerdling question
I got the new BlackBerry Z10. It’s alright, I guess. Problem: unlike on the reliable old 9900, I can’t figure out how to share Web links on the Z10 directly…
BC Liberals Advertising for the Greens in Victoria!
Vote Green! Brought to you by the BC Liberals I was tooling around on Facebook this morning, and some of my Green Party of BC FaceBook friends were talking about…
What’s another 20 mil of your tax dollars, anyway?
After years of using your tax dollars for partisan self promotion, the Conservatives want $20 million more of your tax dollars to keep the ball rolling. Every time you see…
What’s another 20 mil of your tax dollars, anyway?
After years of using your tax dollars for partisan self promotion, the Conservatives want $20 million more of your tax dollars to keep the ball rolling. Every time you see…
On Our Democratic Deficit
These Star readers, whether you agree with them or not, have some interesting perspectives to offer: Re: Growing disconnect between Canadians and Parliament, May 2 Democracy is just a mirage,…