Mar 25 2013
| Harper and other Western leaders' reaction to Chavez and his legacy is an important revelation regarding their visceral hostility to using state power in the interests of the poor.
Mar 25 2013
| The triumphal Harper plan -- trash the public sector, and let the oilsands economy pick up the slack while transforming Canada into a right-wing energy superpower -- is on the skids.
Mar 22 2013
| What could be Toronto's contribution to a revolt against austerity zealots? It may stand before us: dedicated funding for public transit.
Mar 21 2013
| Tomas Young was in the fifth day of his first deployment to Iraq when he was struck by a sniper's bullet in Baghdad's Sadr City. Now, nine years later, Tomas has decided to end his life.
Mar 20 2013
| A writer who regularly produces the feeling of incongruity upon re-reading him, that is, the recognition of how much one writes into the text, is Haruki Murakami.
Mar 19 2013
| Canada needs to be rid of the idea that for the public good, and the general welfare, the federal government needs to balance the budget.
Mar 19 2013
| This past week has provided Canadians with a series of warm and fuzzies that, like most of this nation's mythology, were built on self-congratulatory lies.
Mar 15 2013
| Politics is about what you do, not what you are, nor even, contra ideologies both left and right, what you think.
Mar 14 2013
| Reports are emerging from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay that a majority of the prisoners are on a hunger strike.
Mar 13 2013
| Chávez will not be remembered simply as a politician who alleviated his country's rate of poverty. Instead he will be reminisced as a man, and perhaps already as a legend, who empowered the poor.
Mar 12 2013
| It remains to be seen if the CPC drawing on a conservative movement made of libertarians, militarists, and environmental charlatans can hold on to power, let alone build for future success.
Mar 12 2013
| What appears to have infuriated the western establishment was Hugo Chavez's audacity in challenging -- and scoring some victories against -- western dominance of the world economy.
Mar 11 2013
| The big banks in Canada listen to no one, not even governments which are pathologically pro-free market and who have bailed all of them out with billions in taxpayers' dollars.
Mar 11 2013
| The Nova Scotia NDP has got it only half-right and the prospects, according to the polls, are for minority government (of whatever party) and a return to political mayhem.
Mar 11 2013
| When will Canada catch up with the world by taking steps to bring the pension security of retired Canadians up to date?
