Sheesh. It’s about time. China has finally walked the plank (or was prodded with sticks until they lept) and is now dog-paddling in the sea of flexible exchange rates. The word on the street? China has decided it’s time to cease pegging the Yuan at artificially low rates against the US Dollar, thereby allowing it … Continue reading Yuan Good Turn Deserves Another
It’s Canada Day, which is apparently a day for Canadians all across the country to dress up in red and white and wave flags and yell “Oh Canada” and paint their faces and humbly comment on what a polite and kind country we are, because we’re number one! For me, Canada Day is an interesting … Continue reading A Better World is Needed: The oh-so ‘Canadian’ style of dissent
I want a BC NDP that is a beacon of hope, clarity, vision and inspiration to address the dire economic, energy and environmental challenges we have created for ourselves by the start of the 21st century. But now the party is merely channeling Brian Mulroney’s “open for business” approach to becoming dependent on odious foreign … Continue reading The BC NDP Channels Brian Mulroney
Three days, a fake lake, and $1 billion dollars in security costs later, the G8/G20 meetings will have wrapped up by the afternoon of June 27. Over five hundred protesters will have been arrested, and as of the time of writing, at least three police cars have been burned. Hundreds of police officers will have … Continue reading Protecting the people elected to do the peoples’ work from the people who want them to do their work
Creative resistance to global corporate overlords and their comprador governments will hopefully move to a new level next month during the G8/G20 meetings in Ontario. I know the stakes are high as at least one group [or agent provocateur] has asserted its tone with the RBC firebombing. I’m reading of rebel clowns, watching a video … Continue reading Teddy Bear Catapults and Corporate Overlords
Mark Steyn’s petty critique of Live8 in What rocks is capitalism… yeah, yeah, yeah [see below] is a cynical attempt to blow smoke up a legitimate action because a bunch of rich, selfish celebrities are involved: just the kind of people, by the way, to get hundreds of millions of folks watching a bunch of … Continue reading Cleverly Ignoring the Forest for a Tree of Hypocrisy