Afghanistan: War, Power and Illusion
Canadian LAVs, Afghanistan, by isafmedia This week, Project Censored has released its annual list of top 25 censored news stories in a volume entitled Censored 2011: The Top Censored Stories…
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Russia, Violence and Protest: What it is and what it is not
Reports and video footage of violent demonstration and criminality by ultra-nationalist and racist organisations in Russia this week are forming an interesting juxtaposition to recent political protests in the West.…
Riots and Disparity: Rome, London and Toronto
International headlines in the last two weeks have reported a massive amount of social unrest and unsettling news across the developed world, including riots and economic data which on the…
Montreal Massacre: “Remember, then organize.”
by matttbastard Record snowfall may have forced the cancellation of local commemorative events, but the memories of December 6th, 1989 remain fresh, regardless of where we wrestle with them. Though…
Greens Sunk By Pirate Party
Check out the video lol With the results of November 29th, 2010 by-elections, a few observations can be made: One: No one gives a shit! Voter Turnout was in the…
Faretheewell to the Prime Minister of Newfoundland
So Danny Williams the premier of Newfoundland and Labrodour for the past ten years is stepping down because he feels he’s been there long enough and its time to move…
Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s Racist Campaign?
This landed in my inbox today and I thought it best to share it out. Please note that in no way do I or have I ever supported the Canadian…
TVO’s The Agenda: Truth, Casualties, and War – Akaash Maharaj Videocast
Videocast of my televised essay for TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, on Canada’s role in Afghanistan: Our ability to successfully conclude the mission and effect an honourable departure is…
TVO’s The Agenda: Truth, Casualties, and War – Akaash Maharaj Videocast
Videocast of my televised essay for TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, on Canada’s role in Afghanistan: Our ability to successfully conclude the mission and effect an honourable departure is…
RCMP Comment Fail
Northern News Service Online, March of the Pig: Const. Todd Scaplen with the Yellowknife RCMP said his detachment received a call about a pig wandering by the Ingraham Trail on…
Plutonium to Travel St. Lawrence Seaway?
Oh boy, ohboy, ohboy! That’s some hot commodity! The Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, Radioactive Waste Management Associates (Bellows Falls, Vermont), Beyond Nuclear (Takoma Park, Maryland), and the Citizens for…
Reason in Canadian Politics?
Welcome, Reason Vancouver. I, for one, would like to see a lot less emotion-driven government. Reason Vancouver is a new political movement dedicated to developing policies based on reason and…
Urban Rural Divide
I recommend reading the BBC article, Viewpoint: How urban-rural divide sways US politics, which talks about the urban-rural divide in politics in Seattle vs. Washington state. It got me to…
Remembrance
Long ago and far away across the ocean wild and wide, the young men stormed an alien shore where many of them died. Here and now old men remember the…
You Know It’s Bad When …
Stephen Taylor recognizes that the Conservative Party campaigns like they're capitalists, but governs like they're communists. There's hope yet for thoughtful fiscal conservatism in Canada.
Jim Prentice
Just read Red Tory Liberal's take on Jim Prentice leaving the Conservative Party; also just read Richard Albert's take. Thought I'd jump in with my personal perspective building on these…
TVO’s The Agenda: An Injection of Moralism – Akaash Maharaj Videocast
In this, my second broadcast essay for TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, I argue that the efforts by the federal government to place emotion above reason and shut down…
TVO’s The Agenda: An Injection of Moralism – Akaash Maharaj Videocast
In this, my second broadcast essay for TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin, I argue that the efforts by the federal government to place emotion above reason and shut down…
Col. Williams: Other questions lurk
The horrific crimes perpetrated by Canadian Forces‘ Colonel, Russell Williams, have forced those of us who’d rather not, to look at disturbing images which were presented as evidence in the…
Do we deserve to be Canadians?
Voting is a concept that many people just don't understand anymore. At one time, it was regarded as an honour and privilege to vote. Now, most people regard it as…