The US Fed dropped its usual pretentiousness and the technocratic language often used in its statements on interest rate decisions and was remarkably clear in yesterday's decision, in which it…
Last week, Travis noted Terry Corcoran’s strained argument that over-regulation of banks is what ails the global economy. Terry’s next column went even further off the deep end, endorsing the…
This new Banksy work plays on the ongoing News Corporation phone hacking scandal. Have you discovered any other artwork related to Murdochgate? Tell us in the comments below. Via REBEL:ART.
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Linda McQuaig notes that the same financial actors who caused the global economic meltdown that's being used as an excuse for austerity measures…
Jason Clemens, who hangs his hat at several right-wing think-tanks (the Fraser, Pacific Research and Macdonald-Laurier Institutes), lauds Canadian fiscal conservatism in today’s Wall Street Journal: Canada’s government, for example,…
Earlier in the month, when I clicked an inbox link to a webpage for a fundraising campaign, I did not expect to get lost in the political quagmire of women’s…
It has been 3 months since Plains Midstream Canada reported that there had been a Rainbow Pipeline leak, 100 km NE of Peace River, Alberta. Initially, the Alberta media were…
WikiLeaks is an organization of journalists who publish whistleblower leaks of documents from corrupt governments and corporations. PayPal is an eBay company who quickly caved to US State Department threats,…
When the News of the World scandal began to really explode at the beginning of the month some intrepid reporter went and tracked down members of the Bancroft family -…
Be sure to not eat anything before reading this that you don’t want to see again in a few minutes. I can’t believe that I’m of the same species as…
From a fine website called Think Progress. I’d love to take the axe to that tentacle on the right! Share and Enjoy: Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Miscellaneous material to end your weekend.- Nick Falvo discusses the unfortunate theory that any talk of improving standards of living for the neediest Canadians is either fruitless or extreme politically:In…
Brian Brennan, at left, on the picket line during the Calgary Herald lockout and strike in 1999. Behind him, in the centre of the photo, is Canadian author Margaret Atwood,…
At least according to Macleans contributor Colby Cosh … Breivik employed the Palestinian logic, hitherto almost unknown amongst Western-style spree killers (though implemented at Columbine), of the delayed second attack…
I might have more to say about this later, but for now I just want to highlight the idiocy of some on the right of the spectrum here in Canada.…
By now you’re probably aware of the explosion and subsequent shooting that happened today (yesterday there?) in Oslo, Norway. If not, go read then come back. Going off the details…
James posted this in comments yesterday, but it deserves its own thread: Top Five Ford Lies. If you haven't seen it yet, please go read.Of course, politicians with a privatization…
Highlights from the Murdoch family's and Rebekah Brooks' testimony today in Britain. Complete with foreboding music which seems quite appropriate and not ginned up, actually.The leaders knew nothing, people let…
Open Source Data Journalism – Happening now at Buzz Data
(there is a section on this topic focused on governments below) A hint of how social data could change journalism Anyone who’s heard me speak in the last 6 months…