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September 29, 2006
Relentlessly Progressive Economics
A bunch of economists from places like the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives are talking Canadian economics on a new weblog: Relentlessly Progressive Economics.
September 15, 2006
Web 2.0 Newspapers
I've been meaning to mention that Web 2.0 Newspapers, which wrote up the Dominion a few days ago, looks like an interesting weblog to keep track of.
September 07, 2006
Monitoring them monitoring us?
Lux Ex Umbra is an interesting weblog dedicated to "monitoring Canadian Signals Intelligence".
I haven't looked closely enough to see if this is indeed the case, but at least the idea of in-depth weblogs run by experts is appealing. Especially in Canada, they all seem to be run by dilletante hacks like, well, me.
September 06, 2006
Black Fly Magazine
Ontario has a new progressive publication in Black Fly Magazine.
August 17, 2006
Blogging
Things will be quiet here for the rest of the week while I'm at the Tatamagouche Free School, maintaining the Free School Weblog.
July 30, 2006
Siafu Site
The Montreal magazine Siafu has a brand new web site.
April 07, 2006
Al Pacino as Dick Cheney
So everyone saw the latest piece of video editing brilliance, where Al Pacino's Tony Montana (Scarface) is paired with Dick Cheney's image, right? It's a pretty good fit. [Audio not work safe, and quite likely offensive]
April 04, 2006
CKUT Radio: the 17th Annual Funding Drive
[CKUT is community independent media in Montreal, and they need folks to pledge or donate to keep doing the work they do. Consider it! --doj]
CKUT Radio: the 17th Annual Funding Drive.
OFF the HOUR, Community News at CKUT....
A Call for Financial Support & Solidarity from CKUT's Community News Collective!
CKUT Radio in Montreal is hosting its annual Funding Drive, between THURSDAY, March 30th & SUNDAY, April 9th, at which time Montreal's predominate community radio station calls on it's estimated 100 000 weekly listeners in Montreal & beyond for financial support & solidarity.... CKUT Radio in Montreal, one of the most respected & recognized campus / community radio stations in Canada operates through the collective organizing & network of hundreds of volunteers, representing a diverse array of cultural, political & artistic communities & movements in MONTREAL.
read more...January 24, 2006
On the Fence
"Liveblogging" tends to favour the quick and the pithy. Not exactly my strong suit. But On the Fence can provide all the pith and quickness you desire between compulsively reloading riding results.
January 23, 2006
Stop the presses...
I haven't consulted the other staff here at the Dominion (we're a far-flung bunch), but I'll endorse the view that backing Paul Martin, implicitly or otherwise, is tragically misguided.
January 15, 2006
The Knoll
The Knoll is a new student activist magazine out of UBC.
October 01, 2005
Stewart on US Magazines
Jon Stewart moderated a panel on humour in magazines featuring the editors of Time, Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, and Vanity Fair. It wasn't quite as scathing as his appearance on Crossfire (though that may simply be because video is not available).
Gawker has the short summary, and MediaBistro has the extensive account (in three parts!) based on tapes and notes.
In related news, the NYTimes has an interview with Stephen Colbert.
Tiny Revolution
Some great stuff over at Jonathan Scharz's A Tiny Revolution. Two samples:
By my observation, colonial wars always have three stages in the minds of supporters:1. We've got to help these people!
2. Why are these people resisting our attempts to help them?
3. These people MUST BE KILLED!!!!!!!!
And:
I used to joke that the Soviet Union collapsed because they only had one communist party. They'd still be around if they'd been smart enough to have two communist parties that were exactly alike on every issue except abortion.
September 07, 2005
Grassroots Relief Efforts
Food Not Bombs is accepting donations. They're feeding people.
The 21st Century Foundation has a fund dedicated to "strategic grants for relief, recovery and advocacy efforts that promote long term equitable solutions."
The Sparkplug Foundation offers a list of grassroots organizations who are "directed by, or accountable to, poor people and people of color", and which "foster the democratic involvement" of affected people.
Infoshop has a list of mutual aid efforts set up by anarchist and anti-authoritarian groups and individuals.
An email with a list of addresses and organizations you can send donations and supplies to.
If you know of others, email me (dru at dominionpaper.ca).
(Thanks to William Thake for sending links.)
June 24, 2005
Envisioning Peoples' Struggle
Today is the first day of Envisioning People's Stuggles, a conference going on in Vancouver. According to the organizers:
We are organizing the Envisioning People's Struggles Conference to bring together issues and analysis from the many struggles against war, capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism. The conference will also explore and discuss the history of resistance movements locally and around the world to broaden and contextualize our understanding of current struggles, while emphasizing the need for long-term strategy and vision through open dialogue that builds solidarity between diverse organizing communities.
June 06, 2005
This old map
Check out the massive, handcrafted, Greenwood's Map of London, circa 1827.
June 02, 2005
Nowarian
Dominion contributor, scholar, and hip-hop journalist extraordinaire Susana Ferreira has a weblog up at Nowarian.com.
A bit about the title:
The word is Trinidadian in origin, and Espinet applies it to her protagonist - a multicultural patchwork character, floating between a number of clashing identities and homes. It breaks down to mean someone who comes from nowhere - a nowhere-ian. (With the flip side to that coin being: a nowarian is also someone that comes from many places; he or she can be from nowhere and everywhere all at once.) In essence, the word strikes at the very heart of the multicultural phenomenon. There is an entire generation of nowarians in North America and the West Indies and beyond, all of us floating together, struggling with overlapping cultural identities in the face of so much deep-rooted structural or institutional racism. A new movement is taking shape, and quickly.
April 23, 2005
Call to Support "Surviving Canada"
In a month or so, journalist/activist Macdonald Stainsby is heading on a long, ambitious journey across the western half of Canada and up north to document the situation of indigenous nations.
In his words:
I intend to visit several different nations who have current threats to their very survival as a people. I will hitchhike from Montreal, zig-zagging across Canada westward, stopping in Vancouver before heading directly north, where the greatest threats to both indigenous and environmental survival are taking place: in the Northwest Territories and Yukon.
He'll be documenting the whole thing with weekly articles, photos, and possibly some audio.
I strongly urge you to visit his web site, Surviving Canada, and make a donation to help him cover his costs.
Independent journalism of this is as rare as it is valuable. If we want more of it, we need to support the folks who take it upon themselves to practice it without compensation, and often at personal financial cost.
So sent Macdonald five bucks, or $100 if you can afford it. We'll all benefit.
April 19, 2005
OurTrent
The folks at OurTrent.ca are working for more transparency and accountability in Ontario universities.
April 08, 2005
Google Maps
It has been interesting watching the different reactions to the new satellite image feature that google recently added to their maps site. (Be sure to check out the memory maps that people have made of their childhood stomping grounds using GoogleMaps and Flickr.)
Here's the latest one, from the weblog liminal existence: Satellite Pictures of BC Forests
In BC, the longest-standing environmental issue is that of forestry - clearcuts, raw log exports, habitat, etc. I grew up in the interior of BC, so the sight of massive clear cuts isn't particularly surprising, though always upsetting. But what all those mountain highways hide is the extent of activity. It's impossible to capture valley after valley of clearcuts in a single photo, and equally impossible to get a really compelling view from an airplane.
Google Maps' satellite view presents a different, compelling method of visualizing ecological change. Exhibit A is a view of Vancouver Island's west coast. Zoom out for some context. The green is, well, rainforest. The brown patches are spots where trees that are now very likely homes in America, or paper once grew. Just above is Tofino and the Carmanah rainforest, location of the famous road blockades of the early 1990s. I think, though I'm not sure, that the centre of the image is the Walbran valley. Exhibit B has some on-the-ground pictures.
March 30, 2005
Canadian Spectator
The Canadian Spectator is a news filter with lots of good stories and links, and a refreshing functional, minimalist design that still manages to be pretty.
March 24, 2005
Sea Change
In These Times has an excellent piece by Christopher Hayes on Progressives' fight for America’s soul. It offers a number of interesting yet simple proposals and, not incidentally, proves instructive on many levels beyond American politics. It’s the beginnings of a political tract, and may prove indispensable in the future. I suggest it be read, bookmarked, read, emailed, read, and reposted—maybe even here on Dominion.
January 13, 2005
Best Muslim Blog
alt.muslim is hosting "best muslim blogs" awards. Many links to interesting web sites and specific posts; a good introduction.
December 31, 2004
World Pulse
World Pulse Magazine - Listening to Leading Women and Children on Global Issues
World Pulse Magazine is founded on the belief that there is a different way to look at the world and the problems facing our planet than the view currently presented to us by most news sources.
December 19, 2004
The Culinary is the Political
December 14, 2004
Asia by Blog
Asia by Blog is a biweekly overview of the latest goings-on in Asia, via people with weblogs who live in its various parts.
December 03, 2004
Kill the Sunni
Check out this trenchant post on this perspicacious blog. It is a must read. Really.
November 13, 2004
Little Brother
Little-Brother.ca keeps track of undereported news of interest to Canadians.
October 09, 2004
Killing Train
Justin Podur's excellent analysis of international issues and Canadian foreign policy now appears at KillingTrain.com.
August 06, 2004
Terror Alerts No Longer Help Bush Approval Ratings
Check out 'JuliusBlog':
A BB reader sez: "The basic gist of this is that JuliusBlog took the time to create a well-documented timeline of when terror alerts occur in relation to when bad news for the Bush administration occurs.
There are few things that are quite evident from the chart:
- Whenever his ratings dip, there's a new terror alert.
- Every terror alert is followed by a slight uptick of Bush approval ratings.
- As we approach the 2004 elections, the number and frequency of terror alerts keeps growing, to the point that they collapse in the graphic. At the same time, Bush ratings are lower than ever.
Also see Jason Leopold's "Don't Believe the Hype: Terrorist Warnings Just Another Way Bush Will Steal the Elections"
August 05, 2004
More Fast Food Politics...
See: "Supersize me? Fast food’s power without responsibility"
Top page of the latest issue of Seven Oaks Magazine...
January 19, 2004
NS at WSF
The New Standard has a weblog about the World Social Forum, stacked with correspondents.
January 09, 2004
Henceforth, the "award-winning Dominion Daily Weblog"
This weblog has been selected as a "top blog" by Blogs Canada.
January 05, 2004
Moderation Pending Revolution
Revolutionary Moderation, a new (to me) weblog out of Alberta: "Sure, I'm suspicious of highly successful capitalists, but I'm far more suspicious of horribly failed capitalists who have lots of money anyway, like the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces."
December 12, 2003
Paul Martin Time
Launched on the day Paul Martin becomes Prime Minister, PaulMartinTime.ca aims to be a "comprehensive, independent source of news, analysis, and discussion about our new Prime Minister."
I'm particularly a fan of the Martintrospection Blog, where people can write as Martin in the first person, and attempt to understand why he makes the policy that he does.
(Disclosure: I've done a lot of work on this site.)
December 05, 2003
Project Plowshares
Project Plowshares has a lot of information about Canadian involvement in the US arms industry, and "security" policy overall.
December 02, 2003
Harper's on the Edge
Paul Ford built the radical, new version of the Harper's Magazine website.
Plenty of good ideas over there to steal for the Dominion. And they're turning it into an open source content management system too, which means I'll one day get to use it. Cool.
November 29, 2003
New Dominion Site!
Underreported News is a daily compilation of links to news stories from a wide variety of sources around the world. The world they describe can be slightly different from the one recorded by the western press.
The Dominion is proud to host this effort, which has been undertaken by a group in Fredericton, NB who do a daily international news update on CHSR, a community radio station.
October 30, 2003
Misbehave!
"misbehaving.net is a weblog about women and technology. It's a celebration of women's contributions to computing; a place to spotlight women's contributions as well point out new opportunities and challenges for women in the computing field."
On a somewhat related note, I'm very interested to read Penny Gurstein's Wired to the World, Chained to the Home: Telework in Daily Life.
She analyzes the experiences of teleworkers including employees, independent contractors, and self-employed entrepreneurs, and presents significant findings regarding the workload, mobility, the distinct differences according to work status and gender, and the tensions in trying to combine work and domestic activities in the same setting. As organizational structures, technology, and family priorities continue to change, the often overlooked phenomenon of teleworkers has important implications on everything from employment policies to community planning and design.
September 23, 2003
Fate of the newspaper
Rewrite is a weblog about the (uncertain) future of newspapers.
August 30, 2003
Baghdad Burning
Baghdad Burning is a weblog written by an (anonymous) female programmer in Baghdad.
I say: well written, insightful, scathing.
August 27, 2003
UN Wire
UN Wire is "an independent service covering the UN and the world". Neat.
August 01, 2003
More Sites
A few sites, mostly found through dominionpaper.ca referer logs, which seem to be worth linking for future reference.
The Atlas of Canada (.ca)
BlogsCanada (.ca, weblog, good list of links to other canblogs)
Canadian Information News Network (.ca, weblog)
The Freewheelin' Reader (.ca, weblog, many good links)
wood s lot (.ca, weblog)
Robert Sim (.ca, weblogish)
19th Floor (weblog)
Project Fallout (weblog)
Flying the Bullet (weblog)
gordon.coale weblog (weblog, many good links)
Orcinus (weblog, "Policy, Culture and Journalism in the 21st Century")
July 11, 2003
Comments on Independent Publishing
Some interesting speculation about independent publications (and a bit about the Dominion specifically) from Ikram Saeed and Colby Cosh. Both hail from the right-ish end of the political spectrum, both are thoughtful.
For those keeping track (or interested in finding new Canadian weblogs), some other sites that have recently linked to the Dominion or commented on it include: Living Can Kill You, Triplespeak, Tenorman, Stung Eye, Shatnerian.
Update: Wet Coast, The Tourist, Formica.ca, WayDownThere and I somehow forgot Vive le Canada.
Update #2: Ape Shall Not Kill Ape, Fatherbrain, Motherbrain..
Others sites? Additional thoughts on the Dominion or independent publishing? Post below.
July 10, 2003
Palast and Occupation Watch
Greg Palast is starting a weblog.
The Occupation Watch Center in Iraq will "monitor the military occupation forces and foreign corporations, host international delegations to Iraq, and keep the international community updated about the occupation forces’ activities."
July 01, 2003
Greenpeace in Iraq
Some of the Greenpeace folks in Iraq have a weblog, which they update with stories of replacing radioactive water barrels, and other interesting topics.
June 29, 2003
Real Women
Real Women Online features commentary from "ordinary" women from all over the world on public issues of the day. Their recent high-profile addition was Zainab, the first female Iraqi to start a weblog.
Sources, Primary
Virtual Library - Parliamentary Research Branch Publications
The First Nations Governance Act
June 19, 2003
Two Sites
IATP Trade Observatory (formerly WTOWatch)
Factivism, a weblog by Dan Doucette in Vancouver.
May 22, 2003
"Living on Less"
Living on Less is a web journal about, well, living on less, put out by the Common Wheel collective.