A Happy Birthday for Haiti
So I’ve just turned 45. What a sweet age! Instead of asking people to only bring a quirky 45rpm record to my party next month, I’d rather give people an…
Canada
La Vesse du Loup : Les clés de mon pays
Quebec’s folk group La Vesse du Loup sings about yearning for independence. The lyrics are fairly powerful; the melody nostalgic with an undertone of anger, mainly targeting, I would say,…
How You Can Support the Gitxsan Blockade
Photo courtesy of Gitxsan Against Enbridge website. Despite very public chest thumping, trumpeting and proclamations by Enbridge, mainstream media and Hereditary Chief Elmer Derrick, the song remains the same: the…
Global Research ’2011 Year of the Dupe’: An Awesome Read
Read ‘2011 Year of the Dupe’ by Global Research. You’ll enjoy it and appreciate some truth for a change.
Canadian Press Sucks Up to Harper as ’2011 Story of Year’
Quelle surprise: mainstream media excited about Harper’s majority win and declare it to be ‘story of the year’.
Art and inspiration meet on Montreal streets
J. R. Carpenter. Entre Ville. as appeared in Four Minutes to Midnight A text originally published in edition twelve of Four Minutes to Midnight, launched in November at Expozine in…
Canada, stop the barbaric hockey violence and play sport
Sidney Crosby’s recent layoff due to concussions speaks to the ugliness of violence in Canada’s national sport, hockey. In a recent editorial, the Canadian Medical Association Journal calls on “all…
As Candidate Quits NDP Leadership Race, Canadian Bilingualism Triumphs
Robert Chisholm dropped out the race to replace the late Jack Layton as the Federal leader of the New Democrats for a noble reason. The Nova Scotia NDP MP doesn’t…
Jack Layton, Canadian Newsmaker of the Year
It’s a fitting tribute to a fine Canadian and global citizen. In 2011, no other Canadian dominated the news headlines like the late NDP leader, Jack Layton. Editors and news…
Liberal Convention Must Be Open to Bloggers
Well, I tweeted it and I posted it to Facebook, I just wonder if I had another means to make this statement … The Liberal Party of Canada must determine…
Statement by a Member…
Mr. Rodger Cuzner (Cape Breton—Canso, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, ’twas the week before Christmas and all over the Hill The self-absorbed Tories were imposing their will The stockings in Muskoka were…
Harper Government Cuts to transfer payments to provinces should surprise no one
Canada News: Ottawa to scale back health transfer payments – thestar.com This has been Harper’s plan all along – cut federal money spent on healthcare and social services. The premiers…
No oil for you! What could be Harper’s first sound policy on the United States
If we disregard the fetish-like obsession conservatives in Canada have for the GOP and Tea Party crackpots south of the border and if we ignore the uncharacteristic of a Canadian…
Two examples…
One of a waste of taxpayer money by the Con government for no other purpose other than to gloat. And the second, well that’s just to gloat even further –…
Occupy #Attawapiskat, Phase Two
Clearly, the people living in Attawapiskat are existing in a crisis that represents Canada’s dysfunctional relationship with the first peoples. How can we truly “fix” Attawapiskat? By fixing the underlying…
Hockey defenceman Andrew Ference in support of gay players
Canadian hockey defenceman Andrew Ference who plays for the Boston Bruins came out in support of gay athletes last week in an article discussing open displays of religious fervour by…
TVO’s The Agenda: Hope for the Holidays – Akaash Maharaj Videocast
We will be able to hold our heads high before the judgement of history if we can reply that in our season, we held on to hope, we put aside…
TVO’s The Agenda: Hope for the Holidays – Akaash Maharaj Videocast
We will be able to hold our heads high before the judgement of history if we can reply that in our season, we held on to hope, we put aside…
The Offensive Meaning of Christmas
Having read an interesting article in the Globe and Mail, Canadian schools struggle with what to do about Christmas, I ask myself the same question every December when we are…
Not a cool time to be Canadian – Friday Film Pick: Everything’s Cool
On Monday the Canadian government officially announced the very unpopular decision to withdraw from Kyoto, furthering Canada’s status as eco-pariah on the international stage while reinforcing the massive chasm that…