Today's news has been filled with the open dispute between the Conservative government and the Canadian Bar Association. The CBA has passed a number of resolutions deploring the Conservatives' justice…
In this clip from The Young Turks, Cenk Uygur responds to CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria. Zakaria criticize’s American liberals for their strong dissatisfaction with President Obama, saying among other things that…
Welcome to the middle of August! Adam has found a good deal to go to Quebec City for a few days, so I’ll be flying solo. Tune in nonetheless, as…
Stephen Harper and his party seem to have a real urge to rename objects and organizations, place labels and signs on things, and do all of this in the name…
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Ok this post is in the form of a naive question. And it goes like this: If the Federal Government can borrow (OK MMTers don’t vide your back-end here, I…
The veritable "penny in the poop"--a genuine contribution to political discourse from Free Dominion. Because Rob Nicholson will tell the wing-nuts there what he won't tell us normal folk. Not…
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever…
Only today I learned of the death of Justice Randy Echlin, a judge of the Ontario Superior Court. He had been fighting cancer for nearly two years and when I…
Hmmm... what's this ?... the city of Burlington, Vermont, just passed a resolution to heighten the presence of French?... interesting... Turns out one of the municipal councilors thought that it…
On August 6, Stephane Dion received the 2011 Couchiching Award for Leadership in Public Policy. The following is an excerpt from the speech Mr. Dion delivered at the event. Fighting…
Craig Westcott confirmed Monday he’ll be leaving the opposition office and returning to run his newspapers. Here’s the statement he released: Yvonne and I have agreed that my position will…
http://www.justicedenied.org/false.htm http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=when-an-innocent-confesses-to-a-cri-09-01-27 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/us/14confess.html http://www.innocenceproject.org...
The RCMP: The Mounties have dropped their preliminary probe of a former Tory aide who was cited for political interference in an access-to-information request. An RCMP spokeswoman said Monday there…
America In Decline By Noam Chomsky “It is a common theme” that the United States, which “only a few years ago was hailed to stride the world as a colossus…
Inspired by this story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/08/15/pol-canadian-forces-names.html
ThatThingNotQuiteRealizedPresqueVooDooVille _______ Astroturfing is a form of advocacy often in support of a political or corporate agenda designed to give the appearance of a "grassroots" movement. The goal of such…
I’ve always had my suspicions about a certain crappy “news” outlet pretentiously calling itself the “Latin American Herald Tribune”. I never did trust it; there was something of a rightist…
While the McGuinty Liberals may have survived Collegate during the last election campaign, they must, nevertheless, still get a little nervous every time they see “slush fund” in the headlines.…
Symbols matter. Traditions can be invented. Nationalism is the product of collective will to create an imagined community. All of these concepts (which are debatable, of course) are vitally important…
