(With permission) Experts and exiles: organic intellectuals, education, and the “Indian Problem” in postwar Ontario, Canada

By Josh Cole, PHD, Department of History, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada ABSTRACT This article brings the Italian activist and thinker Antonio Gramsci’s theory of organic intellectualism and the Canadian historian Ian McKay’s theory of liberal state-formation to bear on the “Indian Question” – or how best to yoke Indigenous children and young people to the …

What Planet Am I On? One That Is Being Murdered!

Over the past year we have watched our government spokesperson, Justin Trudeau, selling himself to, not just Canada, but the world. He is a very accomplished actor with admirable experience. He made his acting debut in 2007 in the starring role playing Talbot Papineau, a French-Canadian First World War hero, in Brian McKenna's powerful new …

“The Illusion of Sovereignty. Canada: Owned and Operated by Mega-Corporations and Innate Greed?”

Exactly when did the Governments of Canada acquiesce power over our sovereignty to Mega-Corporations, many of whom originate in the United States of America? There have been events in Canada’s history that suggest an unacceptable amount of control over Canadian policy making, and even Canadian sovereignty, has been for decades, and is now, in the …

“Trans-Pacific Parntership, Snake Oil Salesmen and Liars”

A twitter acquaintance of mine sent an email to our new Government of Canada, upon their invitation, for further information regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and the ISDS clause within that Minister Freeland just signed on February 4, 2016.  He received a response: "With respect to the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), the TPP will …

“Trickery and Treachery Are the Practices of Fools That Have Not the Wits Enough to Be Honest”*

The greatest majority of Canadians are now standing nervously on the precipice of destruction, awaiting our government’s decision regarding the TPP free-trade deal. My reference to the ‘greatest majority of Canadians’ is those of us who, within the past decade, have had our wages cut in half, those of us who work long hours in …

From the cast iron frying pan into the teflon skillet? “What just happened?”

Election 42 is over.  I’m still not certain I completely understand yet, exactly, what happened. Canadians were frantic to remove Stephen Harper and the 'nasty' Conservative Party of Canada for many reasons.  There was the perceived arrogance displayed by Mr. Harper in his refusal to talk openly and honestly, or even at all, to our …

“Harry’s Last Stand” and “Mr. Smith, if we look behind us now and then, will the road ahead rise up to meet us?

There are few souls left on this earth with a living memory of the unimaginable brutality of the class structure in the early 20th century. There are few who can share the experience and the lessons they learned with the hope that mankind will not repeat the deprivation, cruelty and societal injustices of that class …

“Party of One” and “Mr. Harris, I bow humbly to your courage!”

I just completed Michael Harris’ book “Party of One”. Not unlike a woman might feel when she suddenly finds herself in a horrifically abusive marriage immediately after giving birth to their first child, many Canadians have been frozen in shock by what has appeared to be the blatant and total subversion of Canada’s democracy by …

Heartless and Illogical Move

The Mount Polley Mine tailings pond’s earthen wall dam break in B.C. is a massive environmental disaster that leaves us speechless and in shock as we watch the videos and view the devastating pictures.  Five million cubic meters of contaminated slurry has surged into the Cariboo river system carrying with it enormous piles of uprooted …

Corporate Terrorism

As quoted by Theodore Roosevelt  on December 8, 1908 during his Eighth Annual Message to Congress, “To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the …