Cradle of Humankind – Flora
Cradle of Humankind – Flora, a photo by Martin_Heigan on Flickr.
Site C Dam: The Folly of Choosing Energy Over Food Security
I recently returned from a trip up to Peace River Country in Northeast BC, filming for a forthcoming short documentary on the Campbell/Clark Government's proposed Site C Dam.While I wasn't…
A propos of nothing
While much of the NDP's federal election result has been painted as the result of Jack Layton's popularity, it's worth noting exactly how the party results compared to some of…
Palestine and the churlish U.S. veto
It seems so little to ask. A people, already recognized as a nation by most other nations, requests full membership in the UN. It should be a shoo-in. Palestine is…
Home, Home on the Strange
Isn’t it strange how oil companies can act as if they have the rights of people, but if they commit crimes or need police protection, they are suddenly special entities?…
A Streetcar Named Anton
Streetcars are just cool to me. I love the idea of an integrated, community-based, electric-powered public transportation system. It just pushes us toward sustainability and makes us actually appreciate the…
Debt Is Not The Cause Of The Crisis
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Stephen Harper are all over the media attacking European Union politicians for failing to take decisive action to deal with the "debt overhang", particularly in…
Employees may have an interest in pension plan surplus
Sutherland v. Hudson's Bay Company, 2011 ONCA 606, released this morning, considers the entitlement of employees to a pension surplus. In Burke v. Hudson's Bay Co., 2 S.C.R. 273, the Supreme Court held…
QP: Earlier but no more substantive
With an early Question Period at hand, it remained to be seen if we were going to get a full complement of MPs or party leaders in place, of if…
Heroes for Today: Talking back to the 1%ers
You heard the lady. Pay it forward, you tax-dodging billionaires.
Omnibus madness: child rapist to get less time than pot grower
Sheer madness. Tough-on-crime, my ass.Prime Minister Stephen Harper is getting tougher on pot growers than he is on rapists of children. Under the Tories' omnibus crime legislation tabled Tuesday, a…
Is this NDP leader Nycole Turmel’s "Kissinger Moment"?
Nixon and Kissinger: Benign NeglectHenry Kissinger firmly believed that his understanding of Realpolitik reflected the realism of a handful of famous statesmen of bygone decades.Bismarkian in his aloofness, Metternichean in…
Mapping the NDP Leadership Contest
A good chunk of NDP MPs and other notables have started lining up behind candidates, and it might be worthwhile to note who is supporting who:Brian Topp:Fmr NDP Leader Ed…
I really liked this animated piece about the invention of money, credit and debt…
It has absolutely no critique of amerikkkan nationalism. It definitely has no patriarchal analysis. They know their subject matter but don't have any interlocking bits of critical analysis that would…
TVO is taking election coverage to impressive new levels
TVOntario has decided it won’t take voter apathy lying down. Not when Steve Paikin can do something about it. That’s why Ontario’s own TVO has ramped up its coverage of…
NDP leadership support to date
Undeclared MP from BC, Peter Julian has four MPs - Isabelle Morin, Kennedy Stewart, Brian Masse and Rathika Sitsabaiesan Thomas Mulcair now has eight MPs supporting him - Robert Aubin,…
Of course they executed him…
It's Georgia. He was a Black man.He could have been my father, my brother, my cousin, my nephew, my partner, my lover, my friend. R.I.P. Troy Davis Executed by the…
Stephen Harper’s War on Women (Continued)
Well so much for Mother Harper, the friend of women and children. He will fund Planned Parenthood. But only in countries where abortion is illegal.International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda has…
"On October 6th vote for proper scaling of the Y-axis. Vote Liberal."
For those worried the Ontario election lacked a meaty ballot questions, comes the most exciting statistical controversy since the scrapping of the mandatory long form Census:There are 13 statistical graphs…
CUPE ramps up job action
Sensing that the SFSS has little inclination to respect collective bargaining rights CUPE, representing the locked out SFSS staff, has started fighting the PR war. According to the CUPEsfu twitter…