it’s pro-choice or no choice: protecting our rights
If you’re in the Mississauga area and you’re interested in hearing this blog live and in person, I’m giving a talk on Tuesday, April 2, sponsored by the Mississauga chapter…
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EG Radio March 28: Federal Budget 2013, urbanization in Kenya and the tar sands “staples” trap
Download: earthgauge-podcast-march28-2013.mp3 We love covering local stories on Earthgauge and this week, we get just about as local as we can, focusing on some compelling environmental research taking place at…
Ooops! Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall Signs Deals With Chinese Telecom That Canada Now Restricts
Reuters Huawei Technologies, the mainland’s largest phone equipment maker, may face additional restrictions selling its products in Canada as the federal government considers new regulations on foreign wireless suppliers it…
Harper uses Chinese pandas to avoid Canadian people
Bob Rae on the TV last week, with a throwaway line to the press who asked him about the group of dissident Con MPs: If they wore panda suits, maybe…
The class system is alive and well and living at the GRT
(Conestoga College, WLU and UW fares are based on a 4-month term, and I converted that to monthly to compare them to monthly pass prices.)(Update: Perhaps the figure for high…
Men With Loaded Rifles Intimidate Moms Gathered At Indiana Gun Safety Rally
By Igor Volsky on Mar 28, 2013 at 5:36 pm Several men with assault rifles and hand guns crashed a Mayor’s Against Illegal Guns National Day to Demand Action event…
religion and politics
I want to write some more thoughts about Christianity, but not assume that everyone is Christian. This isn’t an effort to convert anyone, just an attempt to explore some more…
The issue is not #capitalism under new management, but the transformation of #capitalism itself. #neoliberalism #cdnecon
More and more I tend to agree with George Monbiot that it is not neoliberalism in and of itself as an ideology or economic theory that is the root cause…
Aliens: Do they exist?
According to a 1950 FBI report, they do. Please watch the following video. In this case the saucer was recovered and aliens died. However, in the 1980s, in another alien…
Gay marriage getting closer in States — hopefully
After two days of hearings at the US Supreme Court it’s not for certain whether gays and lesbians will finally win their hard fought for right to marriage equality across…
ON NDP Stance on Funding for Public Transit
The other day, Martin Regg Cohn wrote a horribly twisted piece of anti-NDP propaganda in the Toronto Star. Andrea Horwath and the ON NDP are not changing their stance on…
Pacific Carbon Trust officials must resign
Finance Minister Mike de Jong must demand resignations of the senior executives and directors of Pacific Carbon Trust. They are officials of a publicly owned enterprise but instead dedicated their…
UPDATE-2: The road to good intentions is paved with racist tendencies (at least in Canada)
Oh those poor uneducated First Nations! To think that before our superior scurvy filled boats arrived here to share our good fortunes with the simple natives that they were basically…
Loliondo and the Shiek
The A marks Loliondo, a Maasai village in northern Tanzania. I have written about the Maasai before, on this blog in The Wheat Field, and in African publications in the…
She’s walkin’
By Rick Hiebert All Rights Reserved Used by Permission Faytene Grasseschi is still newsworthy to Charisma magazine, following their recent cover story on her. Their online news service, Charisma News,…
Inform your "fiscally conservative" friends please of this astounding failure
#neoliberalism Under Flaherty the #cdnecon since 2006 has been a debt-fuelled financialized one only with little real production, productivity, or significantly increased employment to drive demand. Credit card debt has…
A non-endorsement in the LPC Leadership race.
I’m still a neutral in this Liberal Leadership race, and haven’t decided yet who I’ll vote for and in what order, but I can certainly tell you who isn’t going…
"Planning is not an option or a luxury"
A release from the Representative for Children and Youth, March 26, 2013 The audit found scattered and ineffective documentation of planning for these vulnerable children and youth, as well as…
A Calculated Incoherence: the 2013 Federal Budget
I have seen several federal budgets cause more commotion than the one that came down in Ottawa last week. Yet there are several things about it that I find deeply…
Arundhati Roy: Iraq and the ‘psychosis’ of U.S. foreign policy
This month marks the tenth anniversary of the Iraq invasion. The occasion is upon us with barely a whisper from Washington. Hardly surprising… the legacy of the U.S. invasion has…