The Public Order Emergencies Commission was convened to determine whether the federal government erred by invoking the Emergencies Act. It will be months before we have a decision, but it only took a week of testimony for many Canadians to decide the organizers of the trucker convoy are a bunch
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Cowichan Conversations: Hi, I’m Franklin-From a 1968 Peanuts Cartoon
Do you know how and why the little black boy, Franklin, came to join the Peanuts comic strip? I didn’t know until a few minutes ago. Shulz had to buck the system to do it. Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Sinatra’s birthday today: We remember when “Old Blue Eyes” was red
December 12, 2019 1:19 PM CST BY GERALD MEYER Frank Sinatra | AP This article first appeared in Science and Society in the Fall of 2002 and was run later in Political Read more…
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Money from wealthy right-wing ideologues helps fuel group challenging Alberta’s protections for GSA members
The so-called Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms achieved its first goal yesterday, generating plenty of publicity for itself and its social conservative supporters at the first day of its court bid to overturn the Alberta NDP Government’s legislative effort to protect students who join gay-straight alliances. By the sound of
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Democratic reform is the real change that must come from Canadian election
If Canadians don’t see a commitment for major change from Monday’s winner, the nastiest and most divisive election in our history, by far, will be for naught. Change is never easy and the results Read more…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Refusing To Become What The Harper Government Wants Us To Be
While Stephen Harper’s trip to Israel is receiving wide domestic media coverage, coverage that I have been studiously avoiding out of deference to my at-times delicate sensibilities and constitution, the following Harper encomium strikes me as both chillingly ironic and hypocritical: Israel is the only country in the Middle East
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: "The Truth Must Be Told"
By substituting the name of your own country for ‘America’ and ‘person’ for ‘man’, I think you will agree that Martin Luther King’s message in the following speech is timeless: Who can stir us thus today? Who can help us find that moral compass so necessary to heal the world?
Continue readingLeDaro: Barack Obama and Martin Luther King
Was Obama a suitable person to give a speech on the 50th anniversary of MLK’s “I have a dream” speech? MLK may have his own weaknesses as he was human after all, but he was not a hypocrite like Obama. It was Martin Luther King’s efforts and Lyndon Johnson’s co-operation
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Martin Luther King – I Have A Dream Speech – August 28, 1963
I meant to put this up earlier today. It was a great day still marked. It was also my late Dad’s birthday. Here is Martin Luther King.
Continue readingLeDaro: Thousands turn out to celebrate Martin Luther King’s legacy
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about theeconomy “Tens of thousands of people flooded the Lincoln Memorial and the National Mall on Saturday, the first stop in a week of events commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s watershed “I Have A Dream” address
Continue readingLeDaro: Martin Luther King: "I have a dream"
This week is the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King when he gave the speech, “I have a dream”. It is considered one of the best speeches ever given. This a shorter version of his speech.
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: I Believe This With My Whole Heart
“Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy. Either you are a rebel or a slave.” -Chris Hedges H/t Occupy Canada Recommend this Post
Continue readingBrad Trost equates limiting women’s choice with US civil rights movement. Really.
The newest attack on progressives in the US has been to preempt liberal heroes like Martin Luther King for their own devices, to skew their point of view into attacks on women, the poor and the infirmed. It’s a brilliant if somewhat limited strategy. The ridiculousness of this form of
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