Just as I was heading out to my bus I got an email from Parliament that House of Commons petition e-800, asking the government of Canada to revoke the "safe third country" status of the United States so that we may accept refugees they have refused entry to, is now live and available to the public for review and signatureThank you to everyone who ( Read more... )

Enough is enough. The ongoing disaster in the US government has to be opposed; there's no sitting back and hoping for the best. To that end I've drafted a formal Petition to the Government of Canada to act to protect those harmed by yesterday's illegal Executive Order barring the entry of immigrants and refugees from certain vulnerable states to ( Read more... )

Well, today's the day. At long last, after much tumult and furor, the time has finally arrived. Tonight, preferably early in the evening, we will finally know whether or not Canada needs to dynamite the NORAD radars and walk away ( Read more... )

My response in a discussion over on Mother Jones about how some liberals are welcoming Trump's apparent victory:

"There are very many Democrats who are just as cynical and fed up with 'politics as usual' as there are Republicans ( Read more... )

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I'm going to start right off by saying that I am not an economist, nor do I play one on TV; however, it's hard to avoid economics in the news these days and I've been poking about in the shallows of this pool of knowledge in a possibly vain attempt to figure out what everyone's talking about ( Read more... )

Apparently there are people in the US worried that China has a working aircraft carrier, or at least worried that it will pose a threat to US naval strength that will require greater expenditures the US can ill afford to make.

Please allow me to assuage their fears.

According to Wikipedia, there are currently 21 ocean-going aircraft carriers in ( Read more... )

In 1923, Felix Dzerzhinsky of the Soviet Union's new State Political Directorate (GPU, which evolves into the NKVD and eventually into the KGB) decides to accellerate the collapse of capitalism and thereby hasten the triumph of socialism by launching a long-term agitprop campaign ( Read more... )

And once again the Right Wing Punditocracy gets it wrong. Dick Morris, who predicted the entirely wrong results of this last American federal election, is now concluding that TV doesn't matter anymore because voters vote by their demographics. I can agree that TV election ads are no longer nearly as important as they were in decades past, given ( Read more... )

From the Globe and Mail: All shooting victims outside Empire State Building were hit by police gunfire.It's looking like this wasn't a mass shooting, but rather a workplace shooting with a side-order of suicide-by-cop. (And it's sad that there these sort of categories, no?) Only the first vicitm was slain by the gunman. Most of the casualties ( Read more... )