Jingoistic Petro-State
= Canada, obvs, according to Slate anyway. Deliberately hyperbolic, but these paragraphs are well taken, if not news to anyone who’s been paying attention: Given that the Alberta tar sands already...
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Mini Book Review
Read this right now: The Antagonist by Lynn Coady. I can’t remember the last time I was this blown away, this crumpled, this inside-out over finishing a book. Coady’s last novel, Mean Boy, in 2006,...
View ArticleExplain Yourself, Canada
A reporter walking into a pole? Seriously? Okay, I’ve done this before, too… (via)
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Canada just axed the penny!
And I’m feeling fine about it. Ottawa will save $11-million annually by scrapping the one-cent coin, an amount that reflects the cost of supplying the economy with both new and recirculated pennies....
View ArticleWhat looks from Toronto like mob rule in Quebec
The Globe and Mail can eat a dick. Their lede: The fight over a proposed tuition-fee increase in Quebec is about something else now. It’s about whether decisions made by a democratically elected...
View ArticleIn which Canada is turning more retrogressive than America (Or: Even TEXANS!…)
…recognize that the Conservatives’ crime bill will be ineffective (based on their own experience over the past couple decades). CBC: Faced with a budget crisis in 2005, the Texas statehouse was handed...
View ArticleCanadian Racism (or, Attawapiskat on the Internet)
While the thrust of my argument to support the community of Attawapiskat was received by many understanding and empathetic ears, it also exposed blatant public racism and harmful ignorant commentary,...
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We Have Hysterical Right Wing Newspapers In Canada Too
Last night there was a provincial election in Ontario (Canada’s biggest province — the one with Toronto and Ottawa in it). The incumbent Liberal party lost their majority in the legislature, meaning...
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Things That Would Never Happen In America: Supreme Court unanimity in support...
Insite is a supervised-injection clinic in Vancouver’s most famously drug-blighted neighbourhood that operates through a medical-facility exemption from the Controlled Drug and Substance Act. In places...
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