Shorter Brad Wall, Distinguished Statesman: Never mind the facts about my trumped-up grievances, I demand that we break up the country in order to burn down the world!
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Accidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The NDP has released its Power to Change climate plan, including steps to create green jobs and give effect to Indigenous rights while meeting emission reduction targets needed to contribute to the international fight against climate breakdown. And Christo Aivilis offers his first
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Now, Now – Set It Free
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Assorted content to end your week. – Joseph Stiglitz points out the need to move beyond neoliberalism and offers a useful policy framework to do so – though framing an alternative as “progressive capitalism” cedes far more ground than necessary in continuing to prioritize capital over social well-being. – The
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Here, on how Justin Trudeau has gone from counterweight to lapdog in dealing with the Trump administration. For further reading…– Teresa Wright reported on the crackdown on refugees in the Libs’ omnibus budget bill. And Karl Nerenberg called out Trudeau’s pandering to anti-refugee prejudice. – Kelly Crowe reports on Canada’s
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jeff Stein reports on Bernie Sanders’ plans to transfer power from capital to people. And PressProgress highlights the Saskatchewan Party’s continued reliance on corporate funding from outside the province. – Ron Walter recognizes that Scott Moe’s carbon tax posturing is purely a
Continue readingAnti-Racist Canada: The ARC Collective: Who Is To Blame For Forest Fires? Apparently Muslims, Left-Wing Politicians, Environmentalists, and "Lazers"
It began in Constantinople — well, to be fair it actually began somewhere along the silk road in Central Asia — in 1347. By the time the Black Death had run its course between 1/3 and 1/2 of Europeans who contracted bubonic plague were dead. While some kingdoms, duchies, and
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Peter Eavis points out how U.S. CEOs are only seeing their exorbitant pay soar even further due to Donald Trump’s tax giveaways. Kara Swisher interviews Anand Giridharadas about how “philanthropists” are bribing the public with small parts of the obscene concentrations money
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CBC examines the obscene corporate subsidies doled out by Canadian governments – with Alberta ranking as the worst offender even as it also takes in less revenue than other provinces. And Jeff Gray reports on the growing gap between Doug Ford’s budget promises
Continue readingStraight Outta Edmonton: Stand With Fort Chipewyan’s Statement of Thanks
A statement sent out by the Stand With Fort Chipewyan Executive to supporters of the “Send Ed to Fort Chip” Campaign Never doubt what a small group of committed citizens can achieve. Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach has promised to visit Fort Chipewyan. This is after Stand With Fort Chipewyan, along
Continue readingAndy Lehrer: Adam’s fall
So this is what I can piece together. NOW magazine writes a glowing article on Giambrone and erroneously claims he’s gay. Giambrone “laughs over” the story, light-heartedly corrects the record but then goes a step further and makes public the fact that he’s in a relationship with a woman named
Continue readingAndy Lehrer: Who will succeed Kyle Rae?
Longtime Toronto City Councillor Kyle Rae announced earlier this month that he will not be running for re-election in 2010. Rae was originally elected in 1991 after beating Adonica Huggins Sherona Hall for the NDP nomination in what is now Toronto Centre Ward 27. Rae filled an opening created by
Continue readingAndy Lehrer: Tell me why (I don’t like Mondays)
Or “National Post deathwatch part 23“ National Post stops Monday editions in summer As CanWest sinks further and further into debt and tries desperately to stave off its creditors the company has announced that its flagship newspaper will not be publishing on Mondays through the summer. Think of this as
Continue readingAndy Lehrer: Order of Canada revoked from disgraced recipient
No, convicted felon Conrad Black still has his gong. The disgraced figure who has been stripped of his Order of Canada is T. Sher Singh, a prominent Guelph lawyer who was appointed to the order in 2001. Singh was expelled from the Law Society of Upper Canada in 2007 after
Continue readingAndy Lehrer: Meir Weinstein of JDL nailed by CBC Radio News World at Six
CBC Radio News has a report this evening on Meir Weinstein and the Jewish Defence League. Where other media outlets have failed to dig further into Weinstein’s past or that of the JDL the CBC managed to put Weinstein on the spot. Weinstein tries to wiggle away with some rather
Continue readingAndy Lehrer: Galloway sues Farber, CTV, Kenney, Velshi
On Wednesday, I was the first to report that British MP George Galloway was suing Bernie Farber and CTV for libel. Today, Canadian Press reports on this and adds that he will also be suing Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and Alykhan Velshi for remarks they made about him. This should
Continue readingAndy Lehrer: George Galloway suing Bernie Farber and CTV
Word out of Montreal tonight that George Galloway made public during his webcast to Concordia tonight that he has launched a devamation lawsuit against Canadian Jewish Congress CEO Bernie Farber and CTV for defamation uttered in an interview. UPDATE: Galloway repeated the news in his webcast to Ottawa and the
Continue readingAndy Lehrer: Kenney vs Velshi
Reading the New York Times’ lexicological take on Canada’s decision to bar British anti-war MP George Galloway from entering our fair land, I’m left wondering about the dynamics in the relationship between Minister of Immigration Jason Kenney and his aide Alykhan Velshi. It’s quite clear who the brains is in
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