Montreal Simon: Andrew Scheer’s New and Desperate NAFTA Scam
Well, Andrew Scheer's Great Scam Tour of India is finally over, and I think it's safe to say it was a total bust.The idea was
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Brief Programming Note
I’ll be taking a break from the blog for the next little while. See you soon. Recommend this Post
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The ego has landed. Or wants to.
Take note, good people of Brampton: this guy is totally in love with this guy.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Chris Turner rightly recognizes the urgency in implementing effective policies to avert climate breakdown – though he does
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of October 15, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 15, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: After a Bitter Fight, Justice Kavanaugh to Take
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: Morally Vapid
The West’s reaction to the apparent death of Jamal Kashoggi has been appalling. Micheal Harris writes: For sheer, cold-blooded monstrosity, you would have to review
Continue readingStuart Mackinnon's BetterParks for Vancouver: Collaboration
Greens believe in a collaborative approach to problem solving. Green commissioners will work with all elected park board commissioners to make better parks for everyone.
Continue readingThings Are Good: Have Problem? Sleep on it
When confronting a problem, or looking for creative inspiration, people get told “to sleep on it”. This turns out to be useful advice not just
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Learning the Power of Lies – Arnold Isaacs
What’s going on in the US is chilling by nature. The democratic underpinnings of their society are being being eroded at frightening rate as
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Column: Stephen Harper thinks he can manage the likes of Donald Trump. He can’t.
Can Donald Trump be managed? Can so-called “populists” be persuaded to moderate their so-called populism? Anyone who has paid the slightest attention to politics, in
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The She-Wolf of the Clueless loses again
And hallelujah. Now, when will the Toronto Police Service start investigating her for allegedly inciting that attempt to murder scores of refugees at a
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: A federal green machine?
We got a push from the left of the political spectrum the other day for a proposal unveiled in 2016 to transform and green Canada’s
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Unfazed by Donald Trump, what will Stephen Harper make of far-right revival in Bavaria?
I wonder what former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper will make of the success of the scary far-right Alternative für Deutschland party in Sunday’s elections
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Political Discourse in Alberta: Seen through Orwell’s Lens
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”—George Orwell It was
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: My Vancouver Election Endorsements
Still wondering how to vote in next weekend’s Vancouver municipal elections? Wonder no more … Mayor: SYLVESTER, Shauna City Council: BOYLE, Christine (OneCity) FRY, Pete
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Point A to Point B: Did A Series of Anti-Refugee Posts on Social Media From Far-Right Figures Result in Attempted Murder?
Back on September 29, Ronny Cameron, Georges Massaad, and Leigh Stuart posted a video of themselves in the Radisson Toronto East Hotel which has been
Continue readingwmtc: how the media (invisibly) props up capitalism and other hidden biases
I recently read these somewhat old, but still relevant, letters to the New York Times Book Review. Cost of the CrashTo the Editor: In his
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Andrew Scheer and the Saudi Monsters
It's a grisly story. The disturbing allegations that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi murdered and dismembered. It has leaders
Continue readingAlex's Blog: We Need an Antidote to Complacency and Resentmento
When life becomes a zero sum game, when competition is seen as the sole basis for organizing society, when targeting social benefits that should be
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