NDP health platform review: What do you get if home care isn’t delivered within five days?
We have to self-declare here. Whenever we have wanted to raise an issue in the Ontario legislature, the NDP has been more than willing to go to bat for us…
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Pointing fingers at Vancouver’s unaffordability problem: Answers & more questions…
Ever since my last post I have received a lot of questions as to why I found it so entertaining- the debate. I was also contacted by dozens- yes, dozens-
WikiLeaks: A Country’s Name To Kill
An interesting ethical debate is taking place. FirstLook Media, the controversial and adversarial media outlet owned by PayPal’s inventor, has withheld the name of the 5th country the NSA collects…
Group Homes Are People’s Homes
I could write about how Doug Ford’s comments on a group home showed he was ignorant, selfish, and a shameless liar. I might as well write water is wet. Doug’s…
Promises to fix long term care tepid despite 29 violent deaths
We hope they will take time to remember the 29. Today the Ontario Health Coalition is launching their rocking chair tour across the province to draw attention to the lack…
Making common cause with the voters.
This should be a standard lesson in Politics 101. Have we all forgotten it? Why have we stopped making common cause with voters? Looking at the municipal, provincial and federal…
Irish Left Review | Greek Elections Update: A Small Step for SYRIZA, a Medium Step for Golden Dawn
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Election 2014: Conservative media turn against 100,000 job cut plan
Tim Hudak’s promise to cut 100,000 jobs in the public sector is worrying even fellow Conservatives. In today’s National Post, right-wing columnist Tasha Kheiriddin says she can’t vote for Hudak…
Dirty Oil Wars…..This is Just the Beginning
http://montrealsimon.blogspot.ca/2014/05/stephen-harper-and-final-battle-for.html Here in BC, we appreciate any and all support for this issue..but where is the rest of the country on all the damage this MonsterCon has caused? They can’t…
Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Why are we spending billions per year subsidizing the fossil fuel industry in Canada?
Tim Hudak’s 0% Unemployment Plan
Why is no one questioning Tim Hudak on the unprecedented statistical impossibility of his Million Job Plan?
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The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States
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…
New Webstore at Leftwingbooks.net!
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…
Random thoughts, from Jian to Tim to Louis C.K.
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…
The New Liberal Party of Canada
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…
Cons Whine, Mulcair Shines….
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…
Election 2014 Briefs: Hudak as Donald Trump? Let the wild rumpus begin
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…
Nursing Week award winners prove system is far from broken
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…