Big news coming out of Wisconsin today: Republican state senator Pam Galloway, targeted in the recall elections coming up has resigned effective immediately!
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A scandal is continuing to percolate through Canada. It looks more and more like the Conservative Party of Canada have tried to rig the most recent federal election through dirty tricks. Continue reading
There are three great defining features of the history of Canada: booze, hockey and rebellion. Most of our great historic events have revolved around at least one of these. Several have involved two, and the occasional one involves all three. Continue reading
Today, December 6, is Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. Every year on this day, Canada commemorates a terrible act of violence directed at women solely because of their gender. Continue reading
It turns out that in 2007 the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND – the German intelligence agency) shredded the files of 250 BND employees who had been members of either the National Socialist German Workers Party, better known as the Nazis, or the Gestapo. Continue reading
The British Columbia Supreme Court (the trial level court in British Columbia) has ruled that the criminal prohibition of polygamy in Canada is constitutional.
This morning Occupy Toronto is being evicted from its camp at St. James Park.
A legal fight was put up last week, with Occupy’s lawyers seeking a court order to quash the eviction notice issued by the City of Toronto, but were unsuccessful. Toronto is the latest in a string of evictions by Canadian cities seeking to crush the Occupy protests. Earlier last week, injunctions were granted against the occupations in Vancouver and Victoria (the provincial capital of British Columbia). Two weeks ago, police forcibly evicted occupiers in London, Ontario, and in Halifax, Nova Scotia protesters agreed to move the location of their occupation, and once they had moved they were all arrested. Continue reading
This is Crasstalk’s Toronto correspondent reporting. Occupy Toronto protesters have taken over St. James Park, and I decided to go investigate and see what was what.
Income inequality has been spiking in the United States particularly, but the industrialized world generally for thirty years, since the rise of Reagan/Thatcher conservatism. This isn’t a coincidence. What follows is my prescription for fixing the mess. Continue reading
On May 2, 2011, Canadians went to the polls and elected our first majority government since the 2000 election. We re-elected the most right-wing Prime Minister in living memory with essentially unlimited power. Way to go us. Continue reading