The problematic twinning of Big Power and Big Money is universal. One of former PM Stephen Harper’s longest serving advisors, Bruce Carson is facing three charges of illegal lobbying Yup! Cash is allegedly King allegedly everywhere!! Keith Stewart, head of the climate and energy campaign for Greenpeace Canada, observes, “Carson could lobby for the oil industry at the highest levels without anyone raising an eyebrow because the Harper government forgot that they work for Canadians, not oil CEOs.”

Last May the Lax Kw’alaams Nation , a small band of  3,600 members, rejected a CAD 1.15 billion dollar offer due to concerns over damage to the largest eelgrass forests on Canada’s west coast which is a habitat for young salmon.

The apartheid system was based on Canada’s Indian Act. There are many parallels between our many deeply racist institutions like the  residential schools and South Africa`s oppressive systems.

Gord Hill is a Warrior with a pen.This is an image he uses to address the nexus economic and legal realities of native Canada. He addresses the goal of the state to assimilate Indigenous peoples, via the conversion of reserve lands to private property under the pretext of creating economic self-sufficiency.  ‘Self-government’ agreements come with development contracts and treaty agreements remove the natives from the ambit of the Indian Act and change their reserve lands to private property.

2 Cash is King, copyright by Niranjan Rajah. Original image by Zig Zag.

This is the second sketch! Face paint and all! Malaysian social media is disseminating Mahathir’s claim that for Najib ‘Cash is King!’ Indeed, the temptations of money are deep regardless of the identities of the parties involved, and today it seems that what’s true for Malaysians operating at home, may also be true for Malaysian operations abroad! Yes… way across the Pacific Ocean, here in British Columbia, it seems that, Malaysian Cash is, indeed, King!’

During the height of the financial and political crises of 1998, artist and curator Wong Hoy Cheong organized a show of protest and criticism titled “Siapa? Apa? Kenapa?”, Artis Pro Activ. I sent in a long faxed scroll piece with the above text.

Yup! Mahathir knows well how the Government and those who helm it share purse strings with PETRONAS!

Mahathir has come back with his take on the 1MDB math – and according to him it does not add up. One or two key questions – “…will PETRONAS be selling gas to the power plants? If so at what price.“

A Sikh Tradition is alive in Post-traditional Canada! The Minister of Defence was born in Bombeli, a small village in the Hoshiarpur District of Punjab State. A different approach to kaum pendatang here now – I hope it lasts!

Post-Traditional Worldview 1 – Anthony Giddens
Post-Traditional Worldview 2 – Niranjan Rajah

My Graphic take on Modern, Postmodern and Post-tradition.