The Ontario government has launched a comprehensive anti-poverty plan that is receing warm reception from advocates like the 25in5 Network for Poverty Reduction. The fact that this has taken place during particularly bad times for Ontario’s economy is all the more impressive, and makes me proud to be an Ontarian–not something that happens every day. [...]
Category Archives: politics
A first step towards “justice after Bush”?
November 21, 2008 – 8:00 pm
In a surprising and almost (but not quite) faith-restoring move, Dick Cheney, Alberto Gonzalez, and others have been indicted by Texas DA on charges related to prisoner abuse in a privately run prison in which Cheney had personal investments.
For actual justice to be done, of course, much more is demanded. In “Justice after Bush: Prosecuting [...]
Some worthwhile reading on the economic meltdown and what comes next
October 25, 2008 – 10:23 am
Christopher Hitchens for Vanity Faire: “American the Banana Republic“:
Now ask yourself another question. Has anybody resigned, from either the public or the private sectors (overlapping so lavishly as they now do)? Has anybody even offered to resign? Have you heard anybody in authority apologize, as in: “So very sorry about your savings and pensions and [...]
Environmental politics over the long term
October 21, 2008 – 5:35 pm
According to George Monbiot,
While prime ministers in Italy and eastern Europe are demanding a bonfire of environmental measures in order to save the economy, in the UK politicians from all the major parties have made the connection between environmental destruction and economic meltdown.
At any rate, both the UK and Europe are thinking longer-term than the [...]
Bot-mediated reality
October 20, 2008 – 10:24 pm
Having just spent upwards of 25 hours in a car driving between Peterborough, Toronto, and Pukaskwa National Park, one of the ways we passed the time was listening to a variety of podcasts, including Philosophy Bites, CBC Ideas, and the Long Now Foundation’s Seminars About Long Term Thinking (SALT).
While SALT has hosted a bevy of [...]
Trademarking our everyday lives
October 7, 2008 – 6:16 pm
From the “wrong on so many levels” department, the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee has trademarked “with glowing hearts,” a line from the Canadian national anthem, and threatens to sue those who use the line in Canada. From the CBC article:
The committee is so serious about protecting the Olympic brand it managed to get a landmark [...]
Launch of ReallyNotALeader.ca
September 30, 2008 – 9:49 pm
I began work on this site late last week, and am launching it today, with a bit less content than I had hoped, but with a decent start.
ReallyNotALeader aims to make plain the many ways in which Stephen Harper fails to live up to his own rhetoric: the central premise of this blog is that [...]