So we will still have Poilievre to kick around some more Poilievre's big speech was tonight. And he won the leadership vote by 87.5 per cent. Sigh. I guess Canada…
So why, you ask, am I writing about what is probably the most obvious thing to all sane people. The answer is: to put a reasoned argument on the record.…
So, the latest Trumpian temper tantrum is that the US will decertify Bombardier built aircraft. On the surface, this is as ridiculous as it seems. Ostensibly, this temper tantrum is…
AI generated image, 100% human-authored text Artificial Intelligence has entered the world of education like an explosion, leaving us reeling in its wake. Everyone has questions: how could AI reshape…
Today's At Issue panel talks about Albexit and about Poilievre's leadership convention: TLDW: They talked about how the Alberta separatists compare to Quebec separatists, and this week's revelations that some…
British Columbia Premier David Eby yesterday said what a lot of Canadians have been thinking – to wit, that the Alberta separatists gallivanting off to Washington to get the Trump…
The Premier of Alberta often says that we are not ready for electric cars. She says that the technology is just not ready; and that electric cars don’t go far…
Is Trump's regime illegitimate? If yes, what can people do? The post The Illegitimacy of Donald Trump’s Regime first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Whatever one thinks of PM Mark Carney’s Davos speech, it served to resurface Vaclav Havel’s Power of the Powerless just when we most need reminding of the power of collective…
(From my social media a month ago, but I lost it when I went to reference it, so I'm posting it here so I don't lost it again).I have written…
I've had several conversations this week about how to be in a time like this when the U.S. government is so overtly corrupted. I'm just the upstairs neighbour in Canada,…
One of the great things I remember about the 60s was the music of revolution, that opposed the Vietnam War and celebrated rebellion. Right now, we are again hearing music…
Pierre Poilievre is arguably the worst federal Canadian Conservative leader since … well, only since Andrew Scheer, actually. Still, he’s a political leader who blew a 27-point lead in public…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jeremy Wallace examines China's massive - if messy - renewable energy revolution which stands to make fossil fuels obsolete in the very near future.…
A turning point for America? The post Springsteen’s ‘Street of Minneapolis’ first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Nearly all the problems we are facing today share a common root cause: the role of money — and those who have too much of it — in politics.
So the Power and Politics discussion panel was complaining today that Carney hadn't produced a read-out about the conversation with Trump.And they mostly agreed that US treasury secretary Bessent got…
Reaching cat.
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Adam Serwer offers a hopeful take on how Minnesota is proving MAGA social theory wrong, showing that the vast majority of people are…
