Quiet streets, emboldened hearts
I’m standing with Francis Grenier in downtown Montreal, just blocks away from the spot where his life took a drastic turn. On March 7, 2012, Grenier, a 23-year-old visual arts…
Always be Batman
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Let’s Start the Revolution – in Richmond, California.
It’s called the doctrine of Eminent Domain. It basically amounts to the right of government to expropriate private property and it usually requires the government pay market value compensation. Now…
The right response to prejudice
Everyone is talking about Lakeridge Hospital’s brilliant response to the hateful Parti Quebecois “Charter.” The news stories – one of them is here – don’t tell you who came up…
Marshall Berman, 1940-2013
Reblogged from Corey Robin: Political theorist Marshall Berman, who was my colleague at the CUNY Graduate Center, died yesterday morning. When I heard the news last night, my first thought…
Family Photos: The Wonders of the Internet
This summer one of my cousins and I sat down for the first time in years and talked family. She’s started doing geneology and told me she’d come up with…
Take That Pauline
This whole Quebec Charter of Values is a bummer. It’s so bad it got me to resurrect a term from the 60s. Must lift spirits. I know, let’s see what…
Quebec Values? No, just politics of separatism
The Quebec government plans to forbid the wearing of religious garb in government facilities. There will be time limited exceptions for religious hospitals or schools that elect to opt out.…
The U.S. and Assad. America Has Been Down This Road Before.
Is the United States poised to repeat the same mistakes in Syria that it made in Iraq after 1991? Chatham House, Associate Fellow, Nadim Shehadi, warns that is exactly what…
Greetings from Pope Frankie
If cleanliness be next to godliness, is conscientiousness a workable alternative to Catholicism? Pope Francis (or Francesco as he refers to himself in the Italian papers) was asked whether God…
Vancouver’s street paper Megaphone launches new web app to connect with customers
Most Vancouverites are familiar with Megaphone, a magazine sold on the city’s streets by low-income and homeless vendors. Its content is focused on raising awareness about a range of important…
Quebec Charter of Values not all bad
Every cloud has a silver lining, according to John Milton. That may be a bit too optimistic for most of us but it is, believe it or not, true of…
BC Liberals hold worst Legislature attendance record
The BC Liberals have the worst attendance record in the BC Legislature since 1976 – especially with this week’s decision to avoid a Fall sitting…again. If they were employees working…
Sept.12: The journalistic culture of lying by omission.
When Obama was first campaigning, he often quoted Martin Luther King’s ringing words of the 1960s to end racial discrimination in the US. The words were “I have a dream…”…
Daily News Links for Thursday 12 September 2013
Here are today’s news links: Bell challenges cellphone roaming, tower-sharing rules in court (CBC) Videotron rolls out 2-year contracts, “unlike its competitors” keeps monthly price plans the same (Mobile Syrup)…
Chopping Bloc
The good news for the Bloc is that there’s now a bit more elbow room in the back of the caucus car: Maria Mourani, Member of Parliament for the federal…
Pauline Marois: Charter of ‘hate’ Values
Will Pauline Marois allow the headgear, in Quebec, in the following picture? OVERHEAD VIEW: Teachers gathered Wednesday in Bilbao, Spain, at the University of Deusto, a Spanish Jesuit university, for…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Annie Lowrey reports on the still-spreading blight of income inequality in the U.S.: An updated study by the prominent economists Emmanuel Saez…
Modern Warfare: Interesting Picture
This in fact is true. But I believe the cost of planes and bombs has gone much higher now.
She who would be mayor: listen to this
Karen Stintz provides Canada’s largest city with real, honest-to-goodness dead air when asked if she’s blown the transit file (because, um, she has). “Who’s in charge?” she is asked by…