Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Armine Yalnizyan follows up on the Conference Board of Canada's recognition that growing inequality is a serious problem for Canada by noting the…
Stephen Harper: The Actor
The Role he should be playing – Charlie Chaplin. Instead he plays a dumb cop in an episode of the Victorian-era detective series "Murdoch Mysteries" airing July 20th. Come to…
New column day
Here, on the need for Canadian workers to follow Kai Nagata's example in valuing and insisting on the right to express their opinions.For further reading...- Sandra Thomas' rebuttal to Nagata…
UBB Hearing Report from the Pro-Internet Community’s Andrew Moore
En français ↓ Andrew Moore, long-time member of the pro-Internet community and OpenMedia.ca's Digital Action Team, gives a video update on the usage-based billing hearings happening this week: read more
Money isn’t everything.
Seen on Facebook: Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, …Only then…
Green energy and the Ontario election
John Podesta spoke in Toronto last night on what's going to be one of the front and center issues in the Ontario election, green energy: Toronto, ON – This evening,…
The Plumbers Came and (Almost) Fixed Things
Well, actually the plumbers yesterday came to put the radiators back in place. They'd been removed so the new hardwood floors could be installed. It only took two guys to…
Scrap the Indian Act?
Christie Blatchford is surely right to say the Indian Act must go; the Act is a relic of a Canada long gone. But merely repealing the Indian Act is not…
Is Slavery Really the Best Thing for Families?
If you think keeping track of the myriad of think tanks and AstroTurf groups that prop up the neoconservative movement, is a challenge; try unravelling their Religious Right infrastructure.Just when…
Toulouse Le Grandfig’s Summer Vacation: Amazonia
Hermitage Villas, 3000 BC I’m in the land of the Amazons. The women are giant. And cruel. They play a game called “Truncheons and Skulls” with the men. The winners…
Team Ford’s malignancy: It’s not just the Jarvis bike lanes | #TOpoli #bikeTO
By now so much has been written and blogged and tweeted about yesterday’s clusterfuck at Toronto Council that there’s no point in rehashing it. Go read Matt Elliott’s summary at…
Out Magazine salutes five athlete allies
Ben Cohen, Hudson Taylor, Michael Irvin, Mike Chabala, and Nick YoungquestSource: Out MagazineIn its July 2011 issue, Out Magazine salutes five top sportsmen "who have stood up for fairness and…
Labour crunch coming
Only the naive or the demented would portray the looming labour crunch in the province as a “tremendous opportunity”. A report released on Wednesday by the provincial human resources department…
Cure Autism? Absolutely!
Autism is a disorder. We need to find a cure, or cures, for autism disorders. These simple points seem to escape those who perversely find joy in the fact that…
The bridge silliness
I think Patrick Lagacé has it right on the comedy of errors we saw play out this week in respect of Montreal's Champlain bridge, its decrepit state and the oh-so-secret…
The Ballot Question: October 2011
Here’s the question for voters to decide in this fall’s general election as the party leaders themselves have defined it. If you want: guaranteed high electricity prices in Newfoundland and…
Releasing it on second thought
In less than 24 hours, the Conservative government decided that perhaps they were being a bit foolish, and they released the report on the Champlain Bridge, which apparently wasn’t as…
Republicans Wage All-Out War On America’s Environment
America's dominant corporatist party, the Republicans, are moving to scrap, block or rollback federal environmental regulations of just about any sort. From McClatchey Newspapers:Republicans in the House of Representatives are…
You Can’t Argue With These Numbers
Stephen Harper may act as though climate change impacts can be ignored but the global insurance industry would tell him he's full of crap.An industry review of catastrophic loss claims…
The Alberta NDP has a historic opportunity to surf the Orange Wave
Why shouldn’t Alberta New Democrats surf Jack Layton’s Orange Wave, observed in Alberta last May?Can the New Democrats win the next Alberta provincial election?OK, crazy thought. I was only kidding……