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Friday, January 20, 2017

What you need to know about the Molson Coors boycott

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320 Molson Coors workers at the Carlingview Drive brewery in Toronto are on strike. The company is calling for significant concessions fro...

Is Bostonian Kevin O'Leary the Conservative Ignatieff?

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So Kevin O'Leary wants to lead the Conservative Party of Canada and, ultimately, to replace Justin Trudeau as Canadian Prime Minister....
Thursday, January 19, 2017

Marx, Engels, Lenin & Internationalism -- Stamps of the USSR II

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Today we continue with our look at the stamps of the Soviet Union. I have always been fascinated by stamps as what often amount to minia...

Braised Oxtail Stew with Carrots and Potatoes

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As any regular reader of this blog knows, I am a huge fan of oxtail as an ingredient. I have looked at some of my favourite take-out Cari...
Sunday, January 15, 2017

Obama's Lies, Male Violence, Meryl Streep & more -- The Left Chapter Sunday Reading List January 8-15

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This week's list of articles, news items and opinion pieces that I see as must reads if you are looking for a roundup that should be o...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

NDP Minister Brian Mason and Libertarian Party Leader Tim Moen agree! Jane Fonda is the problem, not climate change.

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So, Brian Mason, Alberta's Minister of Transportation and of Infrastructure and the MLA for Edmonton Highlands-Norwood, and Tim Moen, ...

Sam Smith Park in Winter -- The Lakeside Parks of South Etobicoke V

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The wonderful and relatively little known Sam Smith Park in my neighbourhood of South Etobicoke has been featured several times on this blog...