Obama disses due process
Another disappointment from U.S. President Barrack Obama. On New Year’s Eve, perhaps a time when he thought his nation was sufficiently distracted, he signed into law the National Defense Authorization…
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Less Liberal, Less Canadian
In 2006 Howard Dean spoke at the Liberal Leadership convention. In 2008 many Liberal organizers went to the United States and worked for the Democrats. In that same year many…
Why Canadians Want The Worst Politics Of America
Canadians would support our own political institutions if we didn’t idealize worse ones. The last few years have offered an incredible contrast in politics between what interests Canadians and what…
Dark Orwellian Future: Top Secret America
Julian Assange isn’t the only person concerned that Facebook is the greatest spy machine ever created. There are lesser known surveillance nets and data mining underway. Did you know that…
Book Review: Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature
Cover, Miss Chief: Shadow Catcher © 2008by Kent Monkman and Christopher Chapman “Sovereign Erotics is for those who—like so many of us—had no role models, no one to tell us…
Americans OK with taxes but not with the system
I admit to some surprise. Listening to the Republican contenders for the presidential nomination, you might think Americans wanted nothing more than to pay less taxes. In fact, according to…
Did Richard Nixon have a gay lover?
Does anyone care if former U.S. president Richard Nixon had a gay lover? Well, I do, because I would prefer that the anti-Semitic, misogynist, racist, homophobic, Republican, and central Watergate…
Video: Gay Rights Are Human Rights
Produced by the U.S. State Department in December 2011, this video features an excerpt from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s historic December 6 speech calling on nations to recognized…
Scott Fujita makes marriage equality video
Cleveland Browns linebacker Scott Fujita has made a video in which he declares his support for marriage equality. The Japanese-American, whose father was interned in a relocation camp during World…
Legal Same-Sex Marriage Improves Health
As if common sense weren’t enough reason to give full, equal marriage rights to same-sex couples, a study out of Columbia University has provided some extra support. Legal same-sex marriage,…
Hockey defenceman Andrew Ference in support of gay players
Canadian hockey defenceman Andrew Ference who plays for the Boston Bruins came out in support of gay athletes last week in an article discussing open displays of religious fervour by…
Conservative Mayor Outed Over Gay Adult Store Purchases
Greg Davis, a socially-conservative Mississippi mayor, has come out to the press after an audit into city spending discovered that he spent $67 at Priape, a Montreal-owned gay adult store.…
The invisible dead Iraqis
U.S. President Barack Obama has declared the Iraq war over. While he proclaimed what he once termed a “dumb war” a success, he lamented the heavy cost. “Over 30,000 Americans…
The Great American Republican Bully Movement
Sometimes the complexity of the American Republican circus can be more readily understood by clearing the pollution of campaign rhetoric and seeing a consistent strategy present in most Republican candidates…
The "one percent" win another one as health care CEOs clean up
As the Occupy Wall Street Movement campaigns against the unfair distribution of wealth in the United States, the “one percent” they hold accountable just keep on raking it in. According…
Should Rick Perry’s YouTube ad be banned as hate speech?
The question, broached by Amber MacArthur in Thursday’s The Globe and Mail, comes with its own set of issues that perhaps merits a bit of precision. As MacArthur points out:…
Talking to Iran
I am beginning to get the uneasy feeling that we are psyching ourselves up for war with Iran. With the Americans’ two Middle Eastern buddies, Israel and Saudi Arabia, egging…
Video: Hillary Clinton delivers historic speech to the U.N.
Acknowledging America’s own imperfect record on equality, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on nations around the world to recognize that: “Like being a woman, like being a racial…
Coming recession? Shane Jones at UofR
He was able to take a plane to Spain from Britain for two pounds. I’m sure there will be info that will go over my head at this talk. How…
Canadian Banks Made Millions from Illegal Secret Fed Loan
The other day I saw a video of Dennis Kucinich, an American Congressman, reviewing a scandal which I thought was years old. It was actually breaking news with important new…