Teabaggers come to Ontario. Ontarians properly horrified.
“Canadian Klansman” tapestry by Barbara Heller. O, Canada. You’ve certainly seen more than your share of imports from our neighbors to the south. Some, like the Vietnam-era draft dodgers and…
Canadian Counterpunch
When lynching passes for “justice”
Last night, the world witnessed a modern-day judicially sanctioned lynching. Troy Davis was executed last night at 11:08 local time, under heavy protest, in the state of Georgia, by a…
Grope & Flail blames Chinese news agency for Tory zipper problems
Ahem. A little mood music, maestro David: And now, the sordid story: In his short political career, Bob Dechert has risen through the ranks of the Harper government to assume…
In capitalism, everything is a commodity…
…be it women: …or children: Yes, that’s right…human beings are now objects to be “won” in stupid radio contests. Incidentally, both these contests are being held by Canadian radio stations.…
Ahem. As I said earlier…
And if you don’t believe me, here ya go. Jack Layton’s untimely death has triggered another orange wave across the country, a new poll suggests. The Harris/Decima survey conducted for…
Further rumblings
Francis Barlow’s illustration to “The Bat, The Birds and the Beasts”, by Aesop. Yesterday I blogged about how there’s talk of a Liberal/NDP merger. Now someone else has weighed in…
Rumblings
Funny, the sky is clear. So why do I keep hearing the sound of distant thunder? Oh. Wait. It’s coming from Ottawa: Two days after Jack Layton’s state funeral turned…
The People’s Procession
This is what all the right-wingers couldn’t wait even 24 hours to piss on, folks… A state funeral like none before it, and one that we may never see the…
And so it begins…
What is “it”? The speculation, naturally. Olivia Chow is just newly widowed, and already there is talk of whether she’ll run for the top job in the NDP. The one…
Jack Layton on This Hour Has 22 Minutes
Jack gets Marg’d. And other choice moments. Lots of Canadian politicians have been great sports about the merciless satire this CBC fake-news show dishes out on their (usually) all-too-deserving heads,…
A musical tribute to Jack Layton
“Jack’s Dream”, by Ontario NDP candidate James Gordon (Guelph). Jack’s famous last letter gets a country sound.
Photo du jour
Torontonians remember their man Jack. Full size version here.
Dear Jack…
Dear Jack Layton: I don’t know if you remember me, but I will never forget you. We met in the mid-1990s, briefly, during the city council elections in Toronto. I…
Carmen Quintana: still protesting against neoliberal dictatorship
Chilean high school and university students are currently involved in a mighty struggle against their government’s unfair and inequitable privatized education policies, which date back to the neoliberal “reforms” of…
Music for a Sunday: I close my eyes to the restless skies
Hiroshima Day was yesterday. This great Canadian song from yesteryear comes to mind: Watch the video closely and you’ll see some real live World War II vets marching in.
What’s wrong with “crisis pregnancy” centres?
Well, for starters, there is NO SUCH THING as a “crisis” pregnancy. That word is utterly meaningless. And then there’s the fact that all this weasel-verbiage exists for a reason:…
Festive Left Friday Blogging: Ollanta inaugurates, Chavecito celebrates
Yesterday was a busy, festive day in Latin America. In Peru, a progressive finally got himself inaugurated president: Ollanta Humala is in the sash! That’s his wife, Nadine Heredia, applauding…
The post-Fordist era can’t come soon enough
Oh Toronto. So glad I don’t live in you right now. Not just because of the horrible summer heat, but because you have a troglodyte for mayor… Rob Ford is…
Courage
Yes, it’s more bad news on the cancer front. Another well-loved leftist has been diagnosed, and today Jack Layton went public with the diagnosis, announcing that he was temporarily stepping…
“Night Boat to Gaza”
Humberto Da Silva analyzes Israel’s “successes” — and FAILURES — in its ongoing effort to slowly strangle Gaza.