Should getting tough on crime include jailing drug users?
So the Harper Conservatives want to get tough on crime, including the building of new super jails. The question of course begs, with crime rates falling who's going to fill…
Wegman Report: Not just plagiarism, misrepresentation
wegman98-2.jpg New Mashey Report Drills into Academic Misconduct The 2006 Wegman Report to Congress, already under investigation for extensive plagiarism, also appears to be guilty of falsificati...
Sunday drive-by blogging
With thanks to pogge for the blog post title. Meant to describe shorter, list-style blog posts that raise issues in a glancing sense, not a violent one by any means!…
Brigette DePape was wrong
Not that I do not sympathize with her sentiment. But there is a time and a place for protest -- and such time and place is determined by what is…
Bridget Marcelle is a Disgruntled Employee, not a Hero.
With three weeks to go in her job as a Senate Page, Bridget Marcelle decided to quit that job with a splash. She decided that her political allegiance to a…
Posties Sign Own Death Warrant
I have nothing against postal workers or unions in general, but going on strike during the midst of an economic recession is, in my opinion, completely insane. Like many others…
DePape
DePape was protesting two things. First, and most obviously, she was protesting against the Harper government. But second, her point was that Parliament doesn't work. The system we have now…
Video: Interview with PC Leadership candidate Doug Griffiths
Nation, in early February I had a chance to sit down with Doug Griffiths, MLA for Battle River-Wainwright, to talk about his vision for the province of Alberta going forward.…
Attack of Conscience or Running Away From Question Period?
According to Kady O’Malley’s last tweets, it appears that Stevie Spiteful will be visiting the sites of the Richelieu Floods sites for a briefing tomorrow, suggesting that perhaps Jack may…
Corbett applications should usually be allowed
R. v. Lindsey, 2011 ONCA 420 is a good illustration that Corbett applications should generally be allowed and the prior record of the accused redacted. Here the Court declined to…
Why Do The Poor Continue To Defend Tax Breaks for the Rich?
Why do the Poor Continue to Defend tax Breaks for the Rich Great post by Cory McCray. This applies to Canadians too. Excerpt: Sometimes I just don’t understand why there…
The 10 Best Progressive Posts of the Week
I suggest you listen to the song below as you open the links in other browser windows. Here we go, in no particular order:-Janfromthebruce has the story of dozens of…
And now for something completely different..
I don’t often post a lot on here other then political blogposts, but it’s the end of the weekend, and not much is going on, so I thought I’d post…
Tiananmen Square and Brigette DePape: Photos of our Times
June 3, 2011June 5, 1989
It’s Not Just The Young
It's not just the young who understand what Brigette Depape's protest was about. There are members of my own generation who understand what has happened in the last thirty years.…
3828…I Am A Fan Of Justin Trudeau
But I was a bit dismayed that the son of the man who told John Diefenbaker to f@ck off in the House of Commons, a great moment in our history,…
Reduce Student Debt to Reduce Household Debt
At this year’s Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association, Armine Yalnizyan gave a presentation entitled “Surviving the Recovery: The Distribution of Canadian Household Debt.” The panel was co-sponsored by…
UN Security Council: Taliban, yes; Abousfian Abdelrazik, no?
Unbelievably, the UN Security Council is poised to remove senior Taliban officials from its infamous “1267 list“—while Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik’s children are being denied social benefits by the Quebec…