WOA Profile: Lorraine Hoffman — Where Industry Meets Ancestry
“We’re all capitalists here. We’re not anti-industry, but we do strive to find a balance. We need to find sustainable ways of doing things.” — Lorraine Hoffman, Athabasca Chipewyan First…
WOA Profile: Lorraine Hoffman — Where Industry Meets Ancestry
"We're all capitalists here. We're not anti-industry, but we do strive to find a balance. We need to find sustainable ways of doing things."— Lorraine Hoffman, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation…
WOA Profile: Lorraine Hoffman — Where Industry Meets Ancestry
“We’re all capitalists here. We’re not anti-industry, but we do strive to find a balance. We need to find sustainable ways of doing things.” — Lorraine Hoffman, Athabasca Chipewyan First…
Guy Debord’s “Society of the Spectacle”
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Homesick Sunday
'Tis the season, or at least the lights hanging around Oxford Street would suggest so. Unsurprisingly I'm getting a bit homesick for Canada. Doesn't help matters that I spent most…
White Man’s Burden Protocol Should Die
The Kyoto Protocol ends in 2012. It has accomplished very little and deserves to die. The problem with the Kyoto Protocol is pretty straightforward: it blames the West for climate…
Tar on the Tusks – The Walrus sells out to Big Oil
Canada's preeminent culture magazine has let Big Oil lie about the tar sands on its pages.
Part IV:Sustainable independent media needs a breakthrough
This is the fourth of a seven-part series that will address the need to develop independent media -- print, broadcast and Internet based -- in Canada.Canadians might be surprised to…
My presentation to City Council
Although I requested to speak to Council late on Wednesday, I was the first speaker on the list for the Thursday meeting. After I had made my presentation, one of…
The Tea Party Strikes Back
How dare President Obama attempt to the Bush-era tax cuts for the rich expire, adding a whopping 4.6% to an already “overtaxed” population! But America shouldn’t worry, ’cause the Tea…
Fantino’s Hitler Theory
Tory Taber gets all soft and cuddly with Fantino, who takes the high road by comparing the Liberal leadership to Hitler. Un-f'ing-believable.
Wikileaks Whack-a-Mole Workaround
Whooee! Well, friends an' foes, the cyber-censors have been doin' their dangedest to keep folks from seein' the Wikileaks website. The chased 'em from wikileaks.org to wikileaks.ch to wikileaks.nl an'…
The Anti-Canadians don’t want to live in Wonderland
That's what the rest of us want, apparently. We have an "Alice In Wonderland" view of politics and terrorism, according to the former head of CSIS.Someone named "J.L. Granatstein", writing…
The Anti-Canadians don’t want to live in Wonderland
That’s what the rest of us want, apparently. We have an “Alice In Wonderland” view of politics and terrorism, according to the former head of CSIS. Someone named “J.L. Granatstein”,…
The Anti-Canadians don’t want to live in Wonderland
That's what the rest of us want, apparently. We have an "Alice In Wonderland" view of politics and terrorism, according to the former head of CSIS.Someone named "J.L. Granatstein", writing…
The Anti-Canadians don’t want to live in Wonderland
That’s what the rest of us want, apparently. We have an “Alice In Wonderland” view of politics and terrorism, according to the former head of CSIS. Someone named “J.L. Granatstein”,…
Open Letter to Dr. Elizabeth Cannon
Please consider faxing or emailing this open letter to University of Calgary President Dr. Elizabeth Cannon. This is regarding Dr. Flanagan's comments on CBC re Julian Assange. I recommend including…
Part V:Could a ‘mini-paper’ nip at the heels of mainstream press?
This is the fifth of a seven-part series that will address the need to develop independent media -- print, broadcast and Internet based -- in Canada.While I have many criticisms…
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s message to Canada
Yesterday on Parliament Hill we hosted a joint meeting by Parliamentary Friends of Burma (PFOB) and Canadian Friends of Burma (CFOB) with Mrs. Lucinda Phillips, sister-in-law of Aung San Suu…