Blog Archives
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The Harper Government’s bogus case for a border deal with the US: check out the numbers
Instead of fostering the needed debate, the Harper government is tying us every more tightly aboard the chariot of a declining superpower.
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It’s the economy, Dippers
The NDP leadership race suddenly seems like a very long, drawn out affair. Initially, there was much outrage – especially from Thomas Mulcair – at the suggestion that the party go along with what Jack Layton seemed to want: an earlier leadership convention in January. But now many in the party, lead by Winnipeg MP Pat Martin worry that the party’s performance in the Commons is suffering because many of its strongest MPs are out of their critic roles and pre-occupied with the race.
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Fox News North—your national, pro-war TV Network
While Sun TV is not, thankfully, being piped into every Canadian living room, the prediction that it would mimic Fox News is undeniable. The most recent example is the networks nasty, over-the-top attack on Steven Staples, the man who runs the Rideau Institute and its anti-war project, Ceasefire.ca
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Journalism and the Toronto G20
This post is a critical examination of a piece called “Coverage of G20 poses challenge for journalists” published in the Toronto Star on the first day of last year’s G20 summit in Toronto.
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We can do better: Attawapiskat
The dialogue around the tragedy at Attawapiskat has taken a nasty turn in the last few days. From justifiable shock and outrage that a community in Canada (any community in Canada) can be living in such squalor, to blame and finger-pointing.
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The Eviction of Occupy Toronto: An amazing, inspiring and sad day
It’s hard to create a community based on love and compassion in the middle of a society based on greed and fear. The Occupy camps are the closest I’ve seen to that beloved community that has so escaped our grasp. It was never clearer to me than yesterday when Occupy Toronto was taken down by the City, the courts and the police for the terrible crime of camping in a city park.
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Wake up and Listen to Occupiers
The amazingly resilient Occupy phenomenon is running up against the same ugly reality that so many social movements have encountered over the past 20 years: There is a world of difference between influence and power.
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Occupied
One by one the Occupy camps are coming down and I, for one, will be sorry to see them go. They were a constant reminder that there are things we need to fix in this world. Without that reminder, chances are they’re going to stay broken.
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Main street versus Wall street, round 2
The power of this movement is not in the material of the tarps and tents – it’s in the people who inhabited them, who breathed and talked and ate and cleaned and continue to dream of a better world – a world not steered by corporations, where the wealthy hoard even more wealth and workers are squeezed until there’s nothing left to squeeze out.
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Quote: Beyond Marriage Equality
A quote from famous feminist and queer theorist Judith Butler.
