The Struggle Within is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty…
It is with great pleasure that i can tell you that leftwingbooks.net — the webstore associated with kersplebedeb — has been completely overhauled. For the longest time, the previous shopping…
Welcome to the long weekend, everyone. Or, as those of us who toil in retail call it, the weekend. For your long weekend enjoyment (?), I have for you a…
And I don’t mean that as a compliment. Yesterday, while appearing on CTV’s True North Politics panel, one of the subjects that we debated was abortion. Specifically, Justin Trudeau’s pro-choice…
Not for the first time, I can find little in print to refer to as I usually do, because of all the sickening Con-licking going on lately in the media..so…
Kathleen Wynne certainly has someone on staff who is working overtime coming up with bon mots for the Premier. The media reported Wynne’s comments on Tuesday about PC Leader Tim…
On Monday night in introducing Dr. Danielle Martin to his speaker series, Bob Ramsay suggested that Ontario’s health care system is broken. It’s a bit of a stretch to look…
It wasn’t one of her three big ideas to improve health care, but it was a brief moment of brilliance. During Monday’s RamsayTalks at the University of Toronto, Dr. Danielle…
In my last post I criticized Tim Hudak’s campaign over some early gaffes, and called them amateurs. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for that to amateurs…
A screen grab of Thomas Lukaszuk’s new boyishly coiffed, bowtie-free look. Below: Mr. Lukaszuk shortly after his demotion from deputy premier by Alison Redford; in distant, preppier, times; and as…
John Oliver has it right. Who “gives a shit” if 1 in 4 Americans are wrong about a fact? The “news” should stop polling to find out what proportion of…
This is incredible! I didn't think this kind of astrophotography was going to be possible so soon! cbc.ca/news/technolog… #space— John Klein (@JohnKleinRegina) May 13, 2014 The ability to photograph light…
If we did a good enough job with it, Ontario could spread Pharmacare to the rest of Canada says Dr. Danielle Martin. Asked what one issue she would like to…
“Knock knock. Who’s there? Tim. Tim? Who’s dat? No – it’s Tim Hu-dak.” The candidates are knocking on your door. All candidate meetings are being organized in each riding. Are…
Premier Kathleen Wynne probably had the best line on PC Leader Tim Hudak’s promise to cut 100,000 public sector jobs, suggesting he was “turning paycheques into pink slips.” Toronto Star…
Being an enormous fan of all things related to Nikola Tesla, I decided to visit a few spots related to his time spent in New York City.
A lawyer central to the Federal Court challenge of election fraud in 2011, has made a list of deficiencies in the Elections Canada Commish’s report. #cdnpoli #MUSTread Dancing with Mr.…
On May 9, 2014, amidst the pomp and circumstance of marching bands, dignitaries and aircraft buzzing overhead, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told the crowds gathered on Parliament Hill that the…
From the International Labour Organization, in light of the publication of its report on maternity protection. Breakfast in bed, a bouquet of roses or a kid’s drawing in bright crayon…
I can’t even imagine what it would have been like to go to a school where there wasn’t a regular community of teachers who knew each other and watched me
