The Paris Massacre: The Light and the Darkness
It's not going to be easy to write this post, because the anger I felt earlier today, has been replaced by sadness and shock.Sadness for those who were killed, and…
It's not going to be easy to write this post, because the anger I felt earlier today, has been replaced by sadness and shock.Sadness for those who were killed, and…
Canada’s position on the world stage continues to embarrass and disturb. On Nov. 4, Canada, along with Ukraine and United States, voted against a draft resolution entitled “Combating glorification of…
Trudeau the Lesser’s Liberals did backflips to support Israel’s brutal outrage against Gaza’s civilian population this summer. It was as though no one had ever heard the Israeli military’s term,…
It's hard to believe that it's been more than four years since the G20 Summit in Toronto, and my neighbourhood became a police state.A dark sinister place where more than…
There is an old internet adage called Godwin's Law, that dictates that among other things, one can't call Stephen Harper and his Cons Nazis.And I don't, because it also wouldn't…
I always knew he'd lead this country to a very dark place, from the day he came to office.And the very first thing he did was order the removal of…
Front National wins seats in French senate for first time | World news | The Guardian. Marine le Pen hailed her party’s success as ‘an absolutely historic victory’ and a…
Russian president Vladimir Putin is on record as saying that the collapse of the Soviet Union was one of the 20th century’s major geopolitical disasters. Some might say this suggests…
During the Haiti earthquake relief mission, columnist Carol Goar wrote of a disturbing practice by the Harper government, when it came to charitable organizations. We had already seen funding slashed…
Below left: Hero of Ukrainian hardline nationalists – Stepan Bandera Below right: Bandera in Nazi uniform In order to get some background on the crisis in Ukraine, it’s important to…
While I have never been one to use the term fascist profligately, the creeping authoritarianism that has been the hallmark of the Harper regime gives pause for reconsideration. As the…
Top: Molotov cocktail being thrown at Trade Unions building Odessa Bottom left: A ‘jumper’ tries to escape the inferno The forty-six people who died in the fire that engulfed the…
Corporatism is simply a more virulent form of capitalism – or a late stage of capitalism: it is what happens when capitalism is left unchecked, to run its own course.…
Just as Harper has been tearing down the apparatus of scientific research that would ordinarily be used by governing parties to make informed policy decisions, the next prong of his…
Top – Kiev government officials / Beneath – billionaire oligarchs Igor Kolomoyski and Sergey Taruta It comes as no surprise that the so-called “democratic revolution” in Ukraine basically boils down…
It couldn't have been a more revolting spectacle. Canada's Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand called to testify before a House of Commons committee.To talk about the foul voter suppression bill…
Andrew Coyne made an excellent point in his column about the Manning Networking Conference that the Manning Centre is hosting in Ottawa: So this is what a Conservative convention looks…
Beneath: Banner of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera hangs in Kiev City Hall / Yulia Tymoshenko The forcible removal of Victor Yanukovych’s regime in what has been likened to a “fascist…
The protests in the Ukraine that began last November in Kiev’s Independence Square – the Maidan – were staged to protest president Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to back out of a…
Swiss vote on immigration boosts far-right parties through rest of Europe | World news | The Observer. When Christian Ragger heard that the Swiss had voted to cap immigration into…