Nation, long time no speak... I mean, granted, we've gone longer... but in the midst of a hotly-contested leadership race, 2 weeks is just 2 weeks too long... ;)It's been…
A recent article by George Monbiot in The Guardian takes a critical look at academic publishers, apparently with a focus on the United Kingdom. The article makes the following points:…
What are your dreams for yourself, your friends, your sisters, your daughters? Paint, draw, write, sketch, or decoupage your dreams on a postcard and send it to us. Antigone Magazine…
Eerie, isn’t it? Redrum, redrum… Regrem, regrem… Think about it… Mulcair in Jack’s role… Hammering an axe through the Liberal caucus room’s door! For those of you who don’t get…
Professor Szostak sent me this piece and with his kind permission I post it. The piece is lengthy but certainly worth reading: Rick Szostak Professor of Economics and Interdisciplinary Studies,…
Mmm, I was as surprised as anyone that it worked in Toronto. I will be shocked if it works in Vancouver. Our '905' is not neither as right wing nor…
In this morning's column, I pointed out how the Wall government's focus on short-term electioneering and rule-tweaking betrays its insecurity over November's election. And the Sask Party will have all…
Canada's chronic illness, the reciprocal bigotry infecting two of its three founding nations, is threatening to lurch into pandemic status under the Harper Conservative majority. Until anglophone and francophone Canadians…
TedNugentPowerChordsRingOutAllOverVille ....And Then Kiss And Almost Make Up. I'm talking about the cat fight between TeeVee felines Mr. Stephen Smart and Mr. Keith Baldrey over the 'exclusive' scoop the latter…
One could hardly imagine a better way to bitch-slap the carefully fabricated Legend of Jack Layton than Lorraine Michael’s news release announcing a 25% reduction in something the provincial NDP…
To say that the future of the NDP as a possible government-to-be hangs in the balance is not overstating the issue. On September 9 the party brass might make a…
AllAboardTheBamboozlementExpressNPAVille Well, well, well.... Vancouver's Non-Partisan Association, you know the fine folks that once managed to close all the libraries in town WITHOUT cutting taxes first, have just hired Rob…
In September, Toronto Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker will reintroduce a motion to ban the for-profit sale of dogs and cats in Toronto pet stores and flea markets. These retail outlets…
It is not uncommon for people to come to my office and complain about something that happened many years before. Usually in such cases I have to stop them and…
One of the earliest posts among these e-scribbles dealt with a proposal – in 2005 – to rework the Colonial Building. The plan was to fix the place up, set…
“These proposals included cries for billions of new money for social assistance in the name of “child poverty” and for more business subsidies in the name of “cultural identity”. In…
$60 billion disappeared, the funds which were supposed to be used for reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some of the money ended up in the hands of Al-Qaeda, Taliban and…
The following article by a leading European ecosocialist, Daniel Tanuro, was written especially for the latest issue of the Montréal-based journal Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme (NCS), which features a number…
What a perfect gesture from a party that has clearly decided to write off newly-orange Quebec. I had thought all the “royal” foofaraw a few weeks past was merely insensitive,…
