Politics, Re-Spun on Coop Radio, 8.16.10: The HST, Tamil Ship, Haiti…
Last night it was Imtiaz Popat and I on “The Rational” talking about the HST, HST petition oddities, recall of MLAs, a fall legislative session, the BC Conservatives and the NDP on the HST, a new BC Liberal leader, Kim Campbell and Rita Johnson, a fall federal election, direct democracy, Vic Toews being an immigrant [...]
Only 1.5 Tenured Women in SFU’s PoliSci Department
Yes. There are only 1.5 tenured women who work full-time in SFU’s Political Science Department out of 21 profs. Soon there will be 0.5. What century is this? Behold the list of faculty in the department: Of the 21 people on that list, only 6 are women. Whoops, that’s pretty low to start with. Of [...]
Why Teens Give Me Hope
In the category of young people who keep me from weeping for the future, we have Jamie Keiles who is living an experiment to let Seventeen magazine “run” her life for a month. Her high school English teacher should be proud of the media critique she is already pumping out. Jessalynn Keller once interned with [...]
The Toronto Sun Call Guergis a “Dog” on Today’s Cover
While I’m no staunch defender of the arrogance and politically idiotic behaviour of a former junior federal cabinet minister, calling her a dog is just sexist and despicable, especially for an actual newspaper, and I use that term lightly. Share the Love: Twitter del.icio.us email RSS Facebook Google Bookmarks Digg LinkedIn StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Buzz
On Carole James Being a Woman
On Monday and Tuesday I wrote about reasons I had been hearing from people about why they think we lost the election. It was a list of reasons I had heard, presented in no particular order. The only order jigging I did was to put my belief at the end, the one about engaging with [...]
The Sick Government BCers Just Re-Elected
$2m is less than 50 cents/resident of BC. Matt Good’s profound review of contradictions in, around, during and after Woodlands will pummel your soul, but in a good way, unless you’re a heartless misanthropist. And this first bit is just emblematic of how this government views its social responsibilities: In 2005, Stan Hagen, BC’s Children [...]
Even Cats Think 8 Years is Enough!
Three pieces of wisdom, one for each of the last 3 full days of the campaign: on condescension in the debate, Liberals hiding from democracy at all-candidates meetings, and Carole James’ solutions. Originally from http://icanhascheezburger.com/ but nothing I can take credit for. Share the Love: Twitter del.icio.us email RSS Facebook Google Bookmarks Digg [...]
Regrets? Super-Human Gordon Campbell Won’t Tell
If we have learned anything about new higher expectations of politicians in the 21st century, it’s that they have to acknowledge they aren’t perfect. Obama gets it, Bush and Campbell clearly don’t. It was astonishing to watch Campbell interviewed on the CBC tonight. When asked at the end if he could do anything over from his [...]
Our Low Minimum Wage is Overt Poor Bashing
It’s interesting how economistic we are, all obsessed with how politics affects the economy. What’s galling is how the economy is some nebulous thing that is measured by the GDP and not by how it serves human beings. Gordon Campbell criticizes Carole James because she’s not had broad business experience. He’s been in politics for [...]
Some Early Justification for NDP’s Gender Policies
I saw today three examples that support the need for the BC NDP’s affirmative action candidate policies. As much as it has been and will continue to be controversial, today alone justifies it for me. But first, being in an anti-no-spin zone, my take on this issue is affected by being a white male, with [...]
No One Is Illegal – Ignite resistance ~ Canadian multiculturalism is not enough!
No One Is Illegal – Vancouver » Blog Archive » Ignite resistance ~ Canadian multiculturalism is not enough!. In a world where the deregulated global market capitalist regime is imploding, there is wide open space to re-frame the local, national and global economy in a socially and economically just way. An off-shoot of this progressive [...]
Vista Video Arrives!
Politics, Re-Spun is intricately connected to the dgiVista.org nexus of expression. As much as my audio podcasts have been terribly fulfilling and well received [with hundreds of hits/month since mid-2006], it’s time to move into video. My audio podcasts have been audio versions of my editorials as well as interesting chats with people I know [...]
Welcome Back to Civilization, America!
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Need Legal Aid? Get Stuffed!
“Brenner said they were wrong and told them to get stuffed.”- Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun [see below] Aside from the perverse standards of journalism at the Vancouver Sun, the above indicates that the BC Court of Appeals is not willing to contribute to a humane notion of legal aid for the resource-deprived embroiled in civil [...]
Why Celebrities Should Be Political Reporters
Today I read an interesting commentary on the negative reaction people have against Oprah Winfrey endorsing Barack Obama. People seem to think she shouldn’t be all that partisan. I think that’s an interesting–and ignorant–point of view that undermines democracy. These days in Alberta, teachers are not allowed to run for school board, even in districts [...]
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