Miscellanous material for your mid-week reading. – David Dayen interviews Elizabeth Warren about the role of government in ensuring that the needs of people take precedence over the power of corporations. And Press Progress duly challenges the claim that corporate directors are overworked in putting in five to seven hours
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Anti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Canadian Nationalist Party: Antisemites and Racists
If one has been paying attention, one would note that members of the Canadian Nationalist Party have become ubiquitous at far right events. If there is a Yellow Vests, Pegida, or (as occurred this past Sunday) anti-LGBTQ event, it is almost guaranteed that members and supporters of the CNP will
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Farhana Yamin discusses the need to answer the imminent threat of climate breakdown with direct action to force politicians to develop an adequate response (which, to be clear, does not include new pipelines or other subsidies for fossil fuels). Peter Armstrong reports
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Identifying Hamilton Homophobes, Yellow Vests, and Canadian Nationalist Party Members: We Have Photos
There has been more media coverage of the assaults that took place at the Pride event in Hamilton this past Saturday: Mayor Fred Eisenberger wants to make sure violence at Hamilton Pride festival never happens again Right-wing and religious extremists converged on Saturday’s Gage Park Pride celebration leading to violence
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Ed Miliband writes that there’s no contradiction between a climate change plan and an effective economic strategy – and to the contrary, they can and should be entirely aligned. And the Guardian’s editorial board recognizes the need to get to net zero emissions
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Soldiers of Odin Provide "Security" For Former PPC Candidate At Anti-Trans Rally and Update on Hamilton Assaults By Homophobes Harassing Pride Attendees
I'm going to provide an update on what occurred when members of a number of hate groups attacked participants at a Pride event in Hamilton momentarily, but I first need to discuss events that took place in Vancouver at an anti-SOGI rally: And a scuffle breaks out between a few
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Michal Rozworski examines the factors which have contributed to Canada’s ongoing housing crisis, including public austerity, consumer debt and undue speculation. Dan Fumano points out how homelessness is growing in Vancouver despite a few preliminary steps being taken to provide long-absent housing,
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Hamilton Hate Groups Harass Pride Event Participants, Assault Counter-Protesters, Claim Victimhood
In the aftermath of the events earlier this month, hate groups in Hamilton have escalated their campaign of harassment and violence. Today the target was Pride celebrations in the city. A group of protesters including hate street preachers Philip Ness Thomas and John Mark Moretti, members of the overtly racist and
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board points out the gross dishonesty of Jason Kenney, Scott Moe and other spokesflacks for the oil sector who are looking to turn the slightest hint of consideration of the environment and Indigenous rights into grounds for a
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Luke Savage writes that the most compelling case for socialist policies is the importance of expanding on the unduly narrow definition of freedom offered by the right: Socialists, on the other hand, have long understood that class stratification, poverty, and economic deprivation are
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Craig Connelly feat. Roxanne Emery – This Life
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Served by Peterborough Police, Peace Bond Sought Against Kevin Goudreau
Kevin “No Show” Goudreau may finally be facing the consequences years of making online threats. Today he was served by Peterborough Police with a summons to appear this morning for a peace bond hearing in Ottawa on June 25th. The peace bond is reference to these posts in which he
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – PressProgress offers its annual reminder not to be taken in by the Fraser Institute’s anti-tax spin. And Robert Frank reports that support for a more fair tax system in the U.S. extends even to millionaires, a majority of whom approve of a
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the developing issue of plastic pollution has brought out the worst in both PR-focused Liberals and regressive Conservatives alike. For further reading…– The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has discussed the growth of giant oceanic garbage patches. And Alyin Woodward reports on new research showing how
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Nick Hanauer discusses the futility of “educationism” which treats schools as the only factor in social outcomes without recognizing the importance of inequality and precarity in restricting opportunities for far too many children. And PressProgress points out that Brian Pallister’s Manitoba PCs –
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: The Far-Right Continues To Eat Itself: Milo Yiannopoulos Attacks Lauren Southern
Sometimes one reads a story and walks away hoping that everyone involved crashes and burns: I hadn't planned on talking about Lauren Southern, who had just released another in a line of dubious propaganda films, since among other things I didn't think her "retirement" was a real; I was sure
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Heather Mallick discusses the pattern of right-wing governments obsessing over undoing the good done by their predecessors, rather than paying the slightest attention to the public interest. And Mariana Mazzucato and Josh Ryan-Collins examine (PDF) about the importance of having leaders who
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: So What Are Canadian Identitarians Up To Lately?
Back on March 10 I wrote an article in response to messages ARC received such as these concerning Students For Western Civilization: My response included screenshots from the Unicorn Riot Discord chat leaks which indicated that Students For Western Civilization was very much a part of a movement that included
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