December 2011
7 posts
“Politics as war is exactly what former Harper strategist Tom Flanagan has long...”
– ..precisely the conservative approach to bipartisan politics.
Be very afraid: Stephen Harper is inventing a new Canada - excellent but depressing post by Gerald Caplan.
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November 2011
7 posts
Undercover cop drove anarchists to meetings... →
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Embedded in the meetings in Kingston, Peterborough, Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo and Toronto were two undercover police officers — Bindo Showan and Brenda Carey — whose allegations formed the basis of the prosecution’s case against the accused.
The identity of the OPP officers had been protected by a publication ban, but that ban has now been lifted.
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Carey worked her way into...
October 2011
2 posts
"Are you a left-wing nut bar?"
pol-econ:
Chris Hedges responds—cogently and eloquently—to the question of whether he is a “left-wing nut bar” here (video is 7 minutes long).
September 2011
2 posts
June 2011
29 posts
My Life As an Undocumented Immigrant - NYTimes.com →
nprfreshair:
I share this story written by a former colleague of mine, Jose Antonio Vargas. We worked together on this interactive at The Washington Post/washingtonpost.com and Jose was always so enthusiastic and exuberant. He has extensively covered the AIDS/HIV epidemic in Washington, D.C., and his articles inspired a documentary, The Other City.
There's free wi-fi in this town square...
The rioting is in Athens, but I’m nowhere near Athens. I’m in the North, near Thessaloniki, mostly talking to workers about how they’ve been affected. I went to a general strike rally yesterday and only about fifty people showed up. People are opposed to the austerity measures, but most are under the impression that re-electing the New Democracy conservatives, the government that...
BRB in about two months...
Tomorrow I leave for Greece in order to observe the political situation there. I think that what is happening in Greece, part, parcel and aside from the country’s sovereign debt crisis, is an oracle of what is likely to happen here in North America and that someone from the movement here needs to go over, show solidarity and then report back.
Milton Friedman's grandson Patri has a vision that... →
Billed as “Burning Man meets Silicon Valley meets the water,” the planned nation flotilla would be constructed on a variety of barges and water platforms within sight of San Francisco. It would include everything from homes, schools and hospitals to bikes for transportation and aqua farms for food.
Despite the widespread skepticism that the project is bound to invite, Friedman...
“(…)if not for the Winnipeg Jets, hockey as we know it might never have existed....”
– A city that flourished despite its loss - The Globe and Mail
Well-put, Mr. Bidini.
You’re making me sentimental…
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I was supposed to be in Winnipeg this week, but something came up. I’m not a hockey fan, but I picked the worst week to dip. I’m quite fond of the...
May 2011
75 posts
Out-of-town [pigs] reaped millions for G20 work... →
Ottawa riot cops who answered a midnight call and raced to make it to Toronto by Sunday morning each billed $2,079.99 for a single day’s work.
Three police officers from the tiny township of Stirling-Rawdon made more than $25,997.66 in overtime pay alone.
One Hamilton cop earned $31,590.27 in six weeks.
These are three examples of the premium payouts the RCMP made to out-of-town police...
The Green Urbanist.: As Gas Prices Rise, Bicycle... →
thegreenurbanist:
The price tag for more than 3,000 federally funded bike and pedestrian projects last year amounted to less than half the cost of one highly contested highway project.
“But here’s some troubling news: much of the talk around Washington and state capitals this year is about eliminating or slashing…