Early Sunday morning, a train went off the tracks in St-Henri. Two locomotives and two wagons derailed near the intersection of St-Jacques and de Courcelle. […]
Month: February 2014
Coderre and Bergeron: A bromance in the making?
A couple days back I was at the mayor’s press conference concerning the provincial budget and something he said, and repeated, caught my attention. In […]
P6 is police collaboration and I refuse to participate in it
When the municipal by-law P6 first came into legislation, our spirits were high and our fists still raised
New Pussy Riot music video with footage of the group beaten and whipped in Sochi
Yesterday footage of Kossac militia in Sochi beating and actually whipping members of the now-infamous political punk group Pussy Riot while they were performing in […]
Venezuela: Student protests or economic war?
In the past few weeks Venezuela has been shook by violent protests, some say violent repression of peaceful protests. The central notion in every narrative […]
The phantom of the middle class
Recently, in the House of Commons, “middle class” has become the favorite buzz word, omnipresent in every debate related near or far to the current […]
New app tracks US drone strikes and sends push notifications when they happen
Most people know by now that the US uses drones quite a bit in the Middle East these days. Some are aware that drone killings […]
Lac-Mégantic residents protest for the right to cross town and visit their loved ones
Yesterday in Quebec there was a protest. It wasn’t about some broad-reaching concept like the Charter, it was about something much more specific and basic: […]
The crisis of democratic reform
In the past two weeks, “democratic reform” has been on everybody’s lips within the spectrum of federal politics, from Trudeau’s supposedly “bombshell” announcement that Liberal […]
Petrocultures 2014: Oil Energy or Canada’s Future
This past Thursday and Friday, a wide range of accomplished doers and thinkers gathered for the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and the University […]