"Tea party downgrade" on the Sunday news shows
I stopped watching the US Sunday morning news shows long ago. The guests and panellists have skewed mightily toward Republicans; right-wing talking points recited in unison across networks became too…
Welcome To Armageddon
This going to get really, really bad. Worse than it has to, because the assholes who are running the world see debt as a bigger problem than unemployment (largely, because…
The New Phase of the Crisis
The Great Recession was followed by an anaemic recovery in the advanced economies, which threatens to be followed by a double dip or worse now that the fiscal stimulus measures…
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Here Comes the Atlantic Hurricane Season
2011218gosst.png This has been a year of dramatic disasters and weather extremes. From tornadoes to droughts to heat waves, the U.S. has been battered. Unfortunately, the hurricane season that&rs...
Shaking Up The Complacent
If anything will defeat us as a progressive nation, it is the complacency and defeatism of the electorate. Feeling powerless, something I am convinced the extreme right wants us to…
Progressive Women Across Ontario Seem to be Getting Ready to Back Andrea Horwath and the ONDP
A website has been created by progressive women dedicated to defeating Tim Hudak in the coming election. Can an endorsement of the Andrea Horwath and ONDP be far behind? Surely,…
When It Comes Right Down to It, It’s Mainly a Con Game
Modern, consumer economies are essentially a confidence game. When confidence is high, money flows; goods are produced, sold and bought; and we all (sort of) enjoy the boom. When confidence…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. - On the Nycole Turmel front: Christopher Majka cheers the fact that the NDP has managed to encourage so many more Quebeckers to see…
“If you see me in the street”
A spoken-word poem worth taking to heart about just how unpleasant it is to be a woman in public. (And yes, I can vouch for just about everything she says,…
Behind The Scenes At En Famille With Candidate For Liberal Party President Ron Hartling
On July 27, I published a story regarding the Liberal online forum En Famille. In it I quoted Ron Hartling who's running for President of the Liberal Party of Canada.…
British Columbia’s Liberal Gov’t Fails To Protect Victims Of Pedophilia Practiced By Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints In Bountiful B.C.
"More than three years after government officials were first notified about at least one under-aged Bountiful girl in Texas, there has still been no move to repatriate or protect any…
Monday Morning ‘Rider Blogging
Once again, the 'Riders' latest loss was more a story of missed opportunities than poor play overall - particularly in the third quarter, when Saskatchewan's near-total dominance on both sides…
Tar Sands: Celebrate now and pay the price later
Oil companies and promoters. Even China is eying it. Greed and temptation of money-making. Price: Environmental disaster of the worst kind - a deadly kind. The video below shows one…
I need some help from the Ottawa Twitter and Facebook communities…
… in trying to track down some scumbags who defiled Pleasant Park School (OCDSB: JK -> 6… yeah, little kids) with some truly disgusting graffiti at some point over the…
A Letter to a Younger Colleague
Dear Colleague You are fairly new to our Emergency Department, you have done your Emergency Nursing courses and you now have collected a slew of certification initials: ACLS, PALS, TNCC,…
the katz group proves that all the money in the world can buy some pretty bad political advice.
In their effort to secure more than $225 million in public funding for their proposed Katz Downtown Arena, local billionaire Daryl Katz‘s company, the Katz Group, has proven that even…
When "Free Trade" ain’t free
In the absence of any long term prospect for a Free Trade Area of the Americas, Canada has decided to go it alone and try for bilateral agreements. This started…
If a bankster falls in the forest…
…it makes the odd news headlines: “Shark in a boat” seems so last month. Now it’s “shark in the forest.” A call to police reporting an unusual odor on Thursday…