Politics and its Discontents

During the dark years of the Harper administrations, Canadians became almost inured to the lengths it would go while promoting its neo-lib...

My fellow Canadians, If the above doesn't not warm the cockles of your Christmas hearts, please check out these, a small portion of ...

We are hosting our dear friends from Cuba for about the next week, so depending on our sight-seeing schedule, my blogging may not be quite a...

She may be a lost cause, but I have a suggestion for Harper enthusiast/Simcoe Grey Conservative M.P. Kellie Leitch, about whom I have writt...

Checking my blog archive, I found that I have written a total of 22 posts on asbestos. Here is number 23. Two years ago, Canada was the...

Yesterday I wrote a brief post about the federal government's decision to stop defending the export of asbestos from Quebec, not on...

The Harper government is throwing in the towel on Quebec’s internationally-maligned asbestos industry now that the Parti Québécois is p...

Ask them for their stand on the indefensible export of asbestos .

Canada continues to be an outlier amongst Western nations as the sole exporter of death, aka asbestos, a topic that I have written abo...

While I have written many posts on Canada's indefensible export of asbestos to third-world nations, I am pleased to report that the lat...

I have written many times on one of Canada's biggest shames, the export of asbestos , something of grave concern to all right-thinking C...

The NDP motion read as follows: That, in the opinion of the House, the government should: (a) ban the use and export of asbestos; (b) supp...

Canada's ongoing and unconscionable export of asbestos to developing countries continues to be a source of moral outrage to millions, no...

Think of Stephen Harper and his minions when you watch this video. He and his government are directly responsible for cases of this dread di...

I am a great believer in holding our politicians to account. Even though they may prove to be ultimately meaningless gestures, letters to o...

Although the following video was made to protect B.C. workers, perhaps it could be included as a warning to all the unprotected workers who ...

Obsessed and outraged as I am over the Harper government's ongoing sowing of death and disease through the export of asbestos to countri...

The other day I posted my response to my M.P. on the Canadian export of asbestos, questioning how a man such as he, committed to Christian...

Those with long enough memories will recall a famous confrontation that took place in 1986 between Brian Mulroney, then just nine months int...

Given Canada's unconscionable ongoing export of death (i.e., asbestos) and given that it is back in the media spotlight thanks to the br...