Please welcome our new blog affiliate – Northern Currents – run by Josh.It’s been awhile since I’ve had the pleasure of doing this, as blogs have waned in social media popularity since their heyday a decade / 15 years ago. Still, some of us are still around, and we welcome
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Making Child Labour Great Again! Alberta’s new labour law breaks old ground while undermining unions
Alberta’s about to Make Child Labour Great Again! If you think this is a breakthrough, you’re probably a fast-food franchise owner. Cabinet’s “private sector union liaison,” MLA Searle Turton (Photo: Screenshot of Alberta Government video). Yesterday, Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party introduced a bill called the Restoring Balance in
Continue readingStuart Mackinnon's BetterParks for Vancouver: Bloedel Conservatory to reopen July 13
July 6 2020 The Vancouver Park Board is reopening Bloedel Conservatory on Monday, July 13 with new physical distancing and operational procedures to ensure the safety of visitors, Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association members, and staff. To limit contact onsite, visitors and members will be required to book a 45-minute time
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Icil Dobell-The Bear And The Unicorn. Part One
Icel Dobell writes about her remarkable encounters in the forests, aka Six Mountains, North Cowichan. BC WHEREDOWESTAND.CA Remarkable Encounters in the Forests The Bear And The Unicorn. Part One
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Covid-19 Should Be a Wakeup Call to Canadians
Few would dispute Justin Trudeau’s statement that it will take years for Canada’s economy to recover from the damage caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. That’s the harsh reality of a tightly-wound, globalist economy. It’s not resilient. It doesn’t bounce back the way economies did before the neoliberal era. Scars take
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Transparency Fading To Black on Consultation Process For NC Municipal Forest Reserve
The Big Lie Just Keeps Getting Bigger Larry Pynn North Cowichan residents were promised an open and transparent consultation process into future management of the 5,000-hectare Municipal Forest Reserve. What we are getting Read more…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Texas Joins the Big Boys’ Club
The unofficial motto of the Lone Star state holds that “everything’s bigger in Texas.” Texas may not quite be Number One but today it joined New York and Florida by logging a one-day total in excess of of 10,000 Covid-19 infections. The state’s record high of 10,028 new cases served
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Else Did Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump Have in Common?
Wouldn’t you know it? Why, Deutsche Bank of course. New York state financial regulators slapped Deutsche Bank with a $150 million (CAD 204 million) penalty for the bank’s “significant compliance failures” in its dealings with late financier Jeffrey Epstein, the accused child sex trafficker. Deutsche Bank failed to properly monitor
Continue readingCanadian Trends: Alberta Wars Episode II: Attack of the Phones
A long time ago in an economy far far away… ALBERTA WARS Episode II Attack of the Phones The propaganda model for the manufacture of public consent describes five editorially distorting filters, which are applied to the reporting of news in mass communications media: Size, ownership, and profit orientation: The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bad TRA Arugments Part 2 – (You think that…) Trans People Don’t Deserve Human Rights (?).
Our second installment here at DWR of what those wacky transactivists have to argue with when confronted with people who will not take the knee and accept the tenets of their misogynistic gender religion. I have yet to see any feminist (gender critical or not) state that trans people do
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: If you watch anything, watch this
New ad: "Has Your Party Left You?" pic.twitter.com/AQl8wgzfWA — Republican Voters Against Trump (@RVAT2020) July 7, 2020
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jonathan Aldred highlights how COVID-19 has laid bare the folly of a neoliberal economic structure which encourages insecurity, fragility and illusions of control over the unforeseen. And Merran Smith and Michel Letellier discuss how a rebuilding program centred on clean energy will
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Mary Dishes on Don
Donald Trump’s niece says her uncle is not the very stable genius he claims to be. In her new book she writes that her uncle did well on his SATs, his Scholastic Aptitude Tests, only because he paid someone else to write them for him. It’s also being reported that
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Old Bugger Deserves What He Gets!!
Jair Bolsonaro has contracted Covid-19. About time. “I’ve came back from the hospital now, I’ve done a lung screening, my lung is clean, OK? I went to do a Covid exam a while ago, but everything is okay,” Bolsonaro said to supporters outside the presidential palace in Brasília, while urging
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Mask Madness
With increasing evidence that small, potentially infectious airborne particles of Covid-19 can remain in the air for hours, you would think that the use of masks in enclosed spaces would be one of the sanest and safest practices that people would readily and enthusiastically adopt. Yet it remains a contentious
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: A Year for Fare-Free Transit
Yorkdale Station in Toronto. Photo by Matt Wiebe/Flickr. When I made the case last year for fare-free public transit in Ottawa, it seemed like a longshot. What a difference a year can make. Since then, we’ve seen mass-organized fare evasions, fare-free campaigns launched in major cities, and, last April, Victoria’s
Continue readingA Puff of Absurdity: Another Rant About Overpopulation Arguments
I don’t actually care that much about overpopulation, not nearly as much as I care about re-regulating industry with climate a top priority and changing economic policy to decrease inequities, but there’s such a frustrating argument I’ve seen a few times on social media and ranted about it before, but
Continue readingMagpie Brûlé: Talking Mandatory Mask Wearing & Another Scandal for the PM with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Jason Lietaer & Lindsay Maskell on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about Ottawa making mask wearing in public mandatory, how that should be enforced, the latest around the newest self-inflicted scandal to strike the Prime Minister & how
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