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Rabble's Election Blog
Picture 4.pngRabble.ca has been running a reasonably interesting Election Blog, written by everyone from Alternatives' Pierre Beaudet to the Indigenous Environmental Network's Clayton Thomas-Muller.
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Barriere Lake takes over Lawrence Cannon's press conference
Or: The Coup D'Etat vs. The Liberal PlaneMembers of the Algonquin community of Barriere Lake crashed Lawrence Cannon's press conference in Maniwaki yesterday, demanding a meeting with Cannon, an...
View ArticleMedia Analysis of the Day
Jon Stewart:"The press is 6-year-olds playing soccer; nobody has a position, it's just 'Where's the ball? Where's the ball? Sarah Palin has the ball!' [Mimes a mob running after her.] Because they can...
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La Presse takes on the Tar Sands
9149.jpgYesterday, they pointed out in a front page article that Harper's ministers are getting a lot of face time with oil companies.Today, La Presse upped the ante again with five-pages of coverage...
View ArticleEnd of Deregulation?
John Gray argues that the US financial crisis marks the end of the US/IMF model of "deregulation" economics, the end of US primacy, and the rise of economies that managed to avoid US/IMF...
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Morning After Talking Points
risky.jpgCKUT's Wednesday Morning After invited me to come and talk about the elections bright and early this morning. Voici mes talking points, albeit in more articulate form, not that I got to all of...
View ArticleObama's Ground Game: you can't go back
Al Giordano: If Obama wins, what next?What will become of 10,000-plus (mostly) young organizers earning their subsistence keep working on this campaign after Election Day?They've been trained well in...
View ArticleMedia Democracy Day
There's lots of organizing around Media Democracy Day these days. Things are looking particularly hoppin' in Vancouver, where an long list of speakers and sponsors have been signed up.
View ArticleWestmount security removes candidate's election signs during election
Election signs get defaced and destroyed at an unparalleled rate in Montreal... but this is the first time I've heard of city officials taking part.The Communist Party had some election signs up, with...
View ArticleBarriere Lake: Second Blockade Today
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, November 19, 2008Kitiganik/Rapid Lake, Algonquin Territory / - The Barriere Lake Algonquins have blocked highway 117 by gathering in the middle of the road, after Quebec...
View ArticleWark on Iggy
Bruce Wark:"And that's the trouble with our PM-in-waiting. He's usually on the side of the powerful. Ignatieff fervently supported Bush's invasion of Iraq, then when Bush's illegal war turned to shit...
View ArticleGaza, take I
Eva Bartlett:"One hour later, Jihad Samour (approx. 55 years old), arrived with his 6 sons and one other youth, 15 year old Wassim Eid, HUto drop off scrap metal, the proceeds of which he was to use to...
View ArticlePast Gaza Coverage
Jon Elmer:"Israeli pilots carried out a series of air and artillery strikes throughout the Gaza Strip, targeting civilian infrastructure, assassinating militants and striking fear into the population...
View ArticleThe Long Emergency
James Howard Kunstler:"The environmental movement, especially at the elite levels found in places like Aspen, is full of Harvard graduates who believe that all the drive-in espresso stations in America...
View ArticleMichael Pollan describes swine flu two years before it's news
Reading Michael Pollan's 2006 book The Omnivore's Dilemma. The author is, it would seem, a prophet. Or maybe just a real journalist.Stop me when this sounds familiar:The unnaturally rich diet of corn...
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