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 [...]
Reports from Haiti by CUPE and the Red Cross
Claude Genereux, Secretary-Treasurer of CUPE, Canada’s largest union, shares his impressions on where Haiti is at 4 months after their devastating earthquake, which compounded the neoliberal economic earthquake Canada and others have been perpetrating on Haiti for decades. Saddest for me is the lack of time and opportunity for children to play. This is why [...]
Banks’ Obscene Profit = Child Poverty
First quarter (3 month) bank profits in Canada were $5.3 billion for the big six banks. The Conference Board of Canada reports that Canada ranks 15 of 17 in the developed world regarding child poverty rates. The child poverty rate increased by 2% between the mid-90s and the mid-00s. Should the world really Follow Canada’s [...]
Liveblogging the BC Ombudsperson’s Presentation on Seniors’ Care
This afternoon BC Ombudsperson Kim Carter will be speaking to at the BC Health Coaltion’s Seniors’ Forum in Burnaby. She released her interim report in December 2009 called “The Best of Care: Getting It Right for Seniors in British Columbia (Part 1)”. We expect her final report before summer sets in. Her talk starts at [...]
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 [...]
Bill Bennett: King of Plausible Deniability!
The ad reads, “You want someone who pays taxes and is concerned about how the money is being spent,” underneath a photo of Bennett and his family and a slogan that reads, “He’s one of us.” So Kootenay East Liberal Party candidate Bill Bennett did it again. First his campaign planned to host a beer [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Society’s Celebrity Bloodlust Complex and Britney Spears: Part 2
In Part one I compared society’s fascination with Britney Spears to the new movie Untraceable where people visit a website to accelerate the murder of a prone victim. Now that she’s out of the psych ward, there seems to be a new level of intimacy between Britney and the “journalists” out to get the best [...]
Society’s Celebrity Bloodlust Complex and Britney Spears
Last Saturday, I sadly missed a special presentation of something called “The Fall of Britney Spears” or something like that on E! Channel, a sad commentary on our society that used to be Vancouver Island’s TV station. I don’t like Britney Spears’ music or PR thing very much at all, but we are both parents [...]
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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