CANADIAN POLITICS: THE REAL LAST MAN STANDING: It turns out that I was wrong about Winnipeg being the last Occupy camp in Canada. Recently the authorities have evicted a camp in Fredricton New Brunswick. This leaves one more still up and running ie…

CANADIAN POLITICS:THE REAL LAST MAN STANDING:It turns out that I was wrong about Winnipeg being the last Occupy camp in Canada. Recently the authorities have evicted a camp in Fredricton New Brunswick. This leaves one more still up and running ie Occup…

Dear Readers; The French are whining again! Arthur Clarke’s long-ago comment in Childhood’s End was that, “in sum, the French are the world’s best second-raters,” and I really can’t disagree!  They’re a bunch of whiners who never give up …….., and never shut up! At least as far as sovereignty goes. ——————————————————– By The Canadian [...]

Over the next few years, the Harper government will spend tens of millions of dollars celebrating the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. They’ve even developed an iPhone app, which they claim will help young people increase their “awareness of Canad…

The Republican primaries in the United States are getting a lot of media attention on this side of the border. Why should Canadians care about these races? Yahoo! Canada News put that very question to several political analysts and pundits. Here are some of their responses: Warren Kinsella, Toronto Sun columnist and Liberal insider: “The [...]

Managerial competence is above all, what I am looking for in the next policy chair of the Liberal Party of Canada. Maryanne Kampouris has been VP Policy for the Liberal Party of Canada in Ontario for the last 5 years and, in my opinion, she is the cand…

Six recent articles, mostly but not entirely from the Globe and Mail, raise some provocative prospects about Ontario’s changing role in the Canadian confederation: “Ontario Liberals brace for a tumultuous year” (Adam Radwanski) ; “Flaherty’s corporate-tax plan hits stumbling block in Ontario” (Bill Curry) ; “Saving John McCallum’s seat will be true measure of Liberal [...]

Dear Readers; The justice system in this country is a total farce given that the Indians can do what they want, where they want, and when they want. I have seen so much contempt for the law from them, and such cowardice from the RCMP and our government, that it makes me ashamed to be [...]

When choosing the next NDP leader, one question that can be raised is considerations for where the NDP leader is geographically based from. How much of a difference does this make, and, if it matters, where ought that region to be? The list, fou…

When choosing the next NDP leader, one question that can be raised is considerations for where the NDP leader is geographically based from. How much of a difference does this make, and, if it matters, where ought that region to be?

The list, fo…

The big news down in this area the past few days  – specifically in London – is that the big company Caterpillar decided to lock all of its employees out at its London based ElectroMotive plant. It is trying to force its employees there to…

• Gloom and doom
Many international bodies, including the IMF and the OECD, grimly warn 2012 may usher in more global economic turmoil. (Source) 
• Derailed recovery
The IMF warns Europe’s fiscal troubles, combined with high Canadian hou…

Many of the worst excesses of the age of greed occurred in markets that were anything but free, anything but transparent. Government must be there to clean up markets riven by fraud, corruption, insider trading and toxic products that made risk systemi…

Today is the final day for writing/releasing end-of-the-year posts. 2011 featured a federal election and provincial/territorial elections in Manitoba, Ontario, PEI, Newfoundland, Saskatchewan, Yukon and the NWT. At the end of 2011, Canada now has 4 fem…

If Google Analytics is to be believed — and it no doubt is, in some significant enough degree — the majority of visitors to this site arrive via “Search Engines,” looking for information on specific issues or subjects. We also have a discriminating flow of “Direct Traffic” and “Referring Sites,” which we value very highly [...]

This excellent interview with Patrick Bond, Director of the Centre for Civil Society University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, discusses the huge influence that the fossil fuel industry, with its deep pockets and bought-and-paid for politici…

Conventional wisdom has it that 2011 was a turning point for democracy and progress, a year of hope and inspiration. The year in which the protester came out from behind the sign and became the person of the year who was making change.
I find myself a …

Add Kim Jong-Il to the year’s already substantial fallen dictator list. Take your news from Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada, or from Mayan temple walls. Look at the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement or the demise of Durban and Kyoto. Thes…

We are of course far from alone in our view of 2011 as a hinge of fate. Here, eg, is Bloomberg Business Week on the subject: “Rampaging natural catastrophes, global financial calamities, the deaths of despots and desperados, the passing of America’s greatest modern technical innovator and roiling protests that shook the Arab world and [...]