Youtube Channel:http://www.youtube.com/user/AndyWorthington1?feature=mhumAndy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (published by Pluto Press, distributed by Macmillan in the US, and available…
Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AndyWorthington1?feature=mhum Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (published by Pluto Press, distributed by Macmillan in the US,…
The GOP apparently feels that rape victims deserve no shred of dignity and so if a rape victim has had a “taxpayer funded” abortion she will have to prove via…
April Reign This story is both a horrific example of the human trafficking going on in the world and a warning as to what could happen to women should the…
L’institut économique de Montréal doit être fier de son coup: le compteur en temps réel qu’elle a mis sur son site a un certain succès auprès des naïfs. Le simplisme…
I haven't blogged nearly as much about contemporary politics of late as I did when this blog got started. In no small part, it's because I've found both federal and…
This blog isn't going to become a chronicle of the passing of people who have played roles in my career as a historian, (political blogging will likely resume when the…
I have heard that the Regional LRT plan includes a lot of downloaded costs to the municipalities where LRT goes - Waterloo and Kitchener. Apparently this came out at a…
This is a story that has appeared here before, with different names and places. Jose Figueroa has lived in Canada (currently Langley, BC) since 1996. He isn't a drug kingpin,…
Last Saturday, the Philippine Women Centre of Quebec (PWC-Quebec) presented the Nanny Business, a documentary which focuses on the experiences that women have had with Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP).…
Last Saturday, the Philippine Women Centre of Quebec (PWC-Quebec) presented the Nanny Business, a documentary which focuses on the experiences that women have had with Canada's Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP).…
Last Saturday, the Philippine Women Centre of Quebec (PWC-Quebec) presented the Nanny Business, a documentary which focuses on the experiences that women have had with Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP).…
Military’s ‘sock puppet’ software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 March 2011by Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks Related Post:U.S. Chamber of Commerce plots against…
Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propagandaguardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 March 2011by Nick Fielding and Ian Cobainhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networksRelated Post:U.S. Chamber of Commerce plots against "opponents"The U.S. Chamber…
Military’s ‘sock puppet’ software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 March 2011by Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks Related Post:U.S. Chamber of Commerce plots against…
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS:RANDOM THOUGHTS ON THE ARAB REVOLUTIONS: I write these words in the context of what may be a "low point" of the uprising of Arab people for the sort…
Well, this is going to be an interesting week isn’t? In case you haven’t heard, the UN Security Council just approved a No Fly Zone over Libya. The wording was…
PERSONAL:SORRY FOR THE LACK OF CONTENT HERE: Regular readers of this of this blog may have noticed a lack of content recently. I've explained this before as I have transfered…
It's time to draw a line in the sand, awkward as it may be.The eve of the federal budget is now upon us.In Toronto, the Star's editorial page editor Bob…
