PayWatch: The Clash for Cash
. Overcompensated: CEO Pay Rates Show Growing Inequality in Canada By 1:18pm on January 2, the first official working day of the year, Canada’s top 100 CEOs will have already…
Equality
If A Fiscal Cliff Kills, Canada Should Tax Death
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin The fiscal cliff in the United States did not just endanger its own…
Listen to the December 2012 Politics, Re-Spun Panel on Human Rights and Consumerism
December 2012′s Politics, Re-Spun panel on Co-op Radio included Julie McArthur, Alnoor Gova, Imtiaz Popat, Anna Davey, Kevin Harding and Stephen Elliott-Buckley discussing: International Human Rights Day, experiencing “My Voice,…
Three New Year’s Resolutions for Canada
I have never been a fan of New Year’s resolutions. The practice always struck me as little more than an excuse to put off self-improvement until next year. But now,…
Sunday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Pam Palmater explains the historical background to Idle No More: (M)ost Canadians are not used to the kind of sustained, co-ordinated, national effort…
Emerging Consensus on Gay Marriage
Assuming that the world survives this coming December 21, the United States Supreme Court is expected to rule on two cases in June which could result in the nation-wide legalization…
Sport Hunting Banned in Costa Rica
Costa Rica has become the first Latin American country to ban hunting for sport. The country has seen a lot of ecotourism and will continue to be a destination for…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Lawrence Martin's take on Robocon doesn't offer much by way of new information, but nicely sums up exactly what deliberate vote suppression and…
Encouraging Early Political Engagement: I Have the Right to Be a Child
Early political engagement is a hot button topic for a number of us here at Politics ReSpun. As parents and/or political animals, we spend a lot of time contemplating methods…
Physicists Open Up
Results from publically-funded research often ends up in places that the average person can’t access the findings because scientific (and other) journals where results are printed cost an arm and…
Karaoke Nationalism
Lips Karaoke Calgary, on 10th St SW made the news by putting up a sign which translates as: "Diaoyu Island belongs to China. Japanese are not welcome." I've been there…
Karaoke Nationalism
Lips Karaoke Calgary, on 10th St SW made the news by putting up a sign which translates as: "Diaoyu Island belongs to China. Japanese are not welcome." I've been there…
Karaoke Nationalism
Lips Karaoke Calgary, on 10th St SW made the news by putting up a sign which translates as: “Diaoyu Island belongs to China. Japanese are not welcome.” I’ve been there…
Fair Weather Friends: Western Reaction(s) to the Middle East Protests
The ongoing protests in the parts of the Middle East and North Africa, ostensibly in the wake of a Z-list anti-Islam film produced in the US, have elicited the same…
Bravery in a Time of Struggle
I was but wee when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. It must have been quite trying: a feat of technological innovation, cooperative efforts by thousands of mostly anonymous people…
Historical Revisionism: A Balkan Cottage Industry?*
*My apologies to the good hard-working people of the global cottage and cottage cheese industries and the good people of the Balkans for once again being sullied by Western analyst-cum-charlatans.…
Free Speech, Hate Speech, and Chick-Fil-A
In honour of Pride Week here in Vancouver, I can think of no better time to wade into the growing Chick-fil-A row currently ruffling the feathers of our southern neighbours.…
In New York City Gay Marriage is Worth $259 Million
You read that correctly, a $259 million (USD) boom in New York City’s economy is thanks to respecting human rights! Changing the law to reflect reality and letting homosexuals marry…
Gentleman! Step Up and Reclaim Your Wife! Pesky Newborns Be Damned!
Chattel. That’s all you are, women. The personal property of men. If you dare to turn your attention to something as trivial as…a newborn baby? YOU ARE LETTING YOUR KEEPER…
A CLASSE act for Quebec’s next provincial election
Should an election be called, the more militant group of the Quebec student protest movement will mobilze students against ideology and neo-liberal politics. That’s according to CLASSE’s new manifesto, recently…