BREAKING: Rupert throws in towel
The BBC has just reported, as I am writing this, that Rupert Murdoch and his News Corporation is giving up its bid for total control of BSkyB (he presently has…
Not much to see
The Telegram’s Russell Wangersky looked ahead to the fall election and didn’t like what he saw. Wangersky’s assessment is brutal but it is accurate. The Liberals: “When someone who isn't…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your midweek reading.- Stephen Gordon weighs in again on the Cons' census disaster:Many readers may have thought that the census issue was settled last summer; it wasn’t.…
How The Harper Government Defines Efficiency At The CBC
While it will likely come as no surprise to many, the Harper Government has within its sights the CBC, the sometimes irksome public broadcaster that the right-wing so often loves…
A clever move in a broken political game
The "negotiations" surrounding raising the debt limit in the United States is a particularly poignant example of the oh-too-funny-if-not-so-serious circus of partisan, brinkmanship showboating that dominants so much of American…
Outrage over Turcotte acquittal is misplaced
BY JAMES MORTON, OTTAWA CITIZEN JULY 12, 2011 Recent cases in Canada and the United States have caused an uproar because parents apparently guilty of murdering their children have been…
Upon the Roof: The Place on a Summer Evening
The last couple of weeks on the Plateau, as the house near readiness. It is very hot, and the apartment is hotter, but at least we can get up on…
Muslim writer speaks in favor of equal protection for all
In an article published in Al Arabiya, Melody Moezzi, an Iranian-American Muslim writer and attorney from Chicago has come out in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights, stating:The…
The World They Made
If you want to know the state of the relationship between democratically elected governments of the West and the multinational corporations, all you have to do is look at the…
Come, Let Us Reason Together
I have always thought that Churchill was right when he said that, "the United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative" I was a graduate…
Toulouse Le Grandfig’s Summer Vacation: Birdman
January 22, 1978 It appears that in the future, the world is inhabited by a strange race of bird people. I am a happy fellow indeed! Lok-laach-do is my boon…
Lindsay Blackett Out As Alberta Tory Leadership Candidate
Apparently, his decision was made last month, but done in so low key a fashion that nobody in the MSM noticed. Meanwhile, Mr. Blackett has issued a ringing defense of…
Wakefield, Ratajczak and Vaccines
Are vaccines the cause for a spike in autism? Recent research from an independent physician shows that there might be a link.
Help Put an End to Rupert Murdoch’s Criminal Empire
The ongoing scandal in the UK involving media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is making waves everywhere.His stock prices are on the decline and citizens are beginning to mobilize against him.AVAAZ has…
Viva Riva! revives Congolese filmmaking – A review of the crime thriller by director Djo Tunda Wa Munga
“In making “Viva Riva!,” I wanted to find a new way to talk about life in Kinshasa today to describe how my hometown works and how it doesn’t work."
A world of their own
Kathy Dunderdale showed up in the province again to talk about the wonderful reception her Muskrat Falls megadebt project got from the New England governors. Two things stood out right…
The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement – A Primer
If you think NAFTA is bad, just wait until you see what is being proposed in negotiations for The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). CETA is a far-reaching…
Ways not to avoid a panic
I know we’re all playing the Champlain Bridge drinking game at this point, but here it goes. The government received a report on the state of the bridge – which…
Will & Kate: Helping to keep ‘The Firm’ in business … barely
Three generations of The Firm’s directors, in their boardroom. (Grabbed from the Internet, obviously.) Below them: The unfortunate King John, the even more unfortunate King Charles, and Wallis Simpson, an…