Saskatchewan exports death
Jim Harding documented the uranium trail to the deathfields of Iraq in his book, Canada’s Deadly Secret . The Dominion now reports on increased birth defects and cancers in the…
Activism
Sisters In Spirit Under Attack
The HarperCons have gone much too far now! Apparently, the Sisters In Spirit Campaign, organized by the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) has been too successful in raising the…
Activists reunite — sort of!
Almost a quarter-century ago, Mitch Diamantopoulos, Margaret Kovach and I were student activists at the University of Regina. We helped to organize the student response to the education cuts implemented…
G20 Toronto Song of Peace and Redemption
“You will not recognize Canada when I get through with it.”– Prime Minister Harper This is one of the few things PM Harper has said which I hold to be…
G20 Toronto Song of Peace and Redemption
“You will not recognize Canada when I get through with it.”– Prime Minister Harper This is one of the few things PM Harper has said which I hold to be…
G20 Toronto Song of Peace and Redemption
"You will not recognize Canada when I get through with it."- Prime Minister HarperThis is one of the few things PM Harper has said which I hold to be true.…
Pictures from Inside the G20 Detention Centre
Link: 'Inside the G20 Eastern Avenue Detention Centre' via BlogTO
The Last Post I Will Ever Write About Ann Coulter (Except for Cynical SEO Purposes)
by matttbastard (Photo: Rockinon2009, Flickr) Well, well, well (h/t Sabina Becker): First, contrary to what Coulter seems to suggest in a brief phone interview with Macleans.ca scribe Colby Cosh, it…
Ann Coulter in Canada: Of Fire Alarms and Flaming Hyperbole
by matttbastard (Photo: Jimbo Wales, flickr) Aw, poopsie: After protesters at the University of Ottawa prevented Ann Coulter from giving a speech on Tuesday night, the American conservative writer said…
Successful Slovakian No-Nukes Campaign (& More)
The Slovakian Parliament responded favourably to a petition from the people of Slovakia. Environmentalists organized a petition drive to give local citizens a stronger voice. This week the campaign was…
The mens rea of pie
Like an actor misquoting Shakespeare, Liberal MP Gerry Byrne stumbles through a legislative interpretative dance. In an interview with radio station VOCM in St. John’s on Tuesday, Mr. Byrne said…
Prorogation, Disengagement and Cutting the Democratic Deficit in Canada
by matttbastard With thousands of Canadians reportedly hitting the streets this past weekend to express their disapproval of Stephen Harper’s latest arrogant bird-flip to Parliamentary democracy, it seems apparrent that…
Slacktastic Placeholder Post
by matttbastard Busy busy busy lately, kids (and by ‘busy busy busy’ I mean ‘lazy lazy lazy’, as my always-obsessive Twitter output will attest — 140 characters is a lot…
ACTION ALERT: Keep Terminator Seed out of Canada
Member of Parliament Alex Atamanenko (NDP) has reintroduced his Private Members Bill (C-343) to ban the release, sale, importation and use of Terminator technology. What is Terminator? Terminator Technology genetically…
ACTION ALERT: Keep Terminator Seed out of Canada
Member of Parliament Alex Atamanenko (NDP) has reintroduced his Private Members Bill (C-343) to ban the release, sale, importation and use of Terminator technology. What is Terminator? Terminator Technology genetically…
ACTION ALERT: Keep Terminator Seed out of Canada
Member of Parliament Alex Atamanenko (NDP) has reintroduced his Private Members Bill (C-343) to ban the release, sale, importation and use of Terminator technology.What is Terminator? Terminator Technology genetically engineers…
Copyright Reform and the StatsCan Report
Michael Geist posted about the politics in the debate on copyright reform. The point stems from dissonance between the recent Statistics Canada report and a reform-oriented bill expected to introduce…