Sure, it is almost five months until the federal election but everyone is out stumping anyway. You would swear that the election was in June and everyone is getting desperate. But there is no excuse possible for the blather we are getting from the conservatives. Who told conservative leader Andrew
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Jason Kenney fiddles (with climate policy) while Alberta burns
It is an irony, though not a particularly satisfying one to observe, that while Premier Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party Government moves swiftly to repeal Alberta’s carbon tax, the province is aflame, with more than 5,000 Albertans required to leave homes and communities in imminent danger of destruction. It is
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Moral Capitulation of the News Media
Bill Moyers asks, “What if we covered the climate crisis like we did the start of the second world war?“ Moyers addressed young journalists to mark the launch of Covering Climate Now: Covering Climate Now, a project co-sponsored by The Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation. Joined by The Guardian
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Will Doug Ford Cost Andrew Scheer’s Cons the Next Election?
When Doug Ford became the premier of Ontario, Andrew Scheer was so excited he treated him like his new best friend forever.It was going to be the Great Alliance, with the two Cons vowing to work together to defeat Justin Trudeau and his satanic carbon tax.And Scheer seemed to believe
Continue readingThe Decarie Report: May 23:: A bad, bad day.
I sit here in tears. Once in a while, I hit a key – I don’t even known which one – and it wipes out hours of work. And it just did it again – after four hours of writing. This will, I”m afraid this will be a short blog
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Scheer versus Trudeau – the Lesser of Two Weasels
Michael Harris has penned, “An Early Voting Guide to Trudeau (Bad) and Scheer (Worse).” Before Liberal hearts soar, Harris says they’re both lousy choices – Trudeau slightly less lousy. His choice? Could it be time for change with risk? Could it be time to elect a government committed to saving
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: If You Can’t Believe the World Is Massively Overcrowded
Get an eyeful of this: These are climbers queuing to summit the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest. Hundreds of climbers hoping to make it to the summit of the world’s tallest mountain were forced to queue for hours in freezing temperatures at high altitude this week as congestion built up
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Another Bad Day for Justin
It wasn’t the first time Trudeau’s security officers have thrown a woman to the ground but, this time, it was a 74-year old granny, part of a group of Trans-Mountain pipeline protesters who turned up at a Trudeau speaking engagement. Watch as Trudeau’s burly muscle slams the old dear to
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Labour a Key Partner in a Canadian Green New Deal
“Migrants” by Mary Tolstova In a month where unprecedented floods have ravaged many Canadian communities, the immediate perils of climate change have never been more evident. At the same time, the news is full of reports underlining the economic anxiety felt by many Canadians. One recent poll showed that nearly
Continue readingThings Are Good: Noteworthy Companies from Collision Conference
21 May 2019; Chelsea F. Briganti, left, CEO, LOLIWARE, Dianna Cohen, centre,rnCEO, Plastic Pollution Coalition, and Catherine Abreu, Executive Director, Climate Action Network Canada, on planet : tech Stage during day one of Collision 2019 at Enercare Center in Toronto, Canada. Photo by Sam Barnes/Collision via Sportsfile There were a
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Kindest Cut Of All?
Given the butcher’s blade Doug Ford and his trained seals are taking to crucial services and programs in Ontario, perhaps the following best reflects the widespread disenchantment people are expressing with the government they helped elect. Recommend this Post
Continue readingMagpie Brûlé: A Week in the Life of the Ford Conservatives
As we have been noting here, the Ford Conservatives have been dealing with a lot of blowback from decisions that they have made. We’ve been seeing more and more manifestations of this unhappiness and growing anger about many of these decisions and cuts as they have been trickling out. It’s
Continue readingKersplebedeb: What happened to Prisoner Justice Day?
What happened to Prisoner Justice Day? is a podcast mini series about the history of prisons in canada focusing on differences in the prison system in the 1960s-1980s versus today. The podcast features interviews with former and current prisoners, as well as supporters on the outside; the miniseries is all
Continue readingMagpie Brûlé: A Moment That Sticks in the Mind
Politics can be an amazingly fickle thing and in our history as a country, we’ve seen moments happen that have changed the course of campaigns in ways that we wouldn’t have foreseen. When I think of this, the best example that comes to mind is Brian Mulroney, Solange Denis and
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Kuwasi Balagoon A Soldier’s Story: Revolutionary Writings by a New Afrikan Anarchist
available from leftwingbooks.net Kuwasi Balagoon was a participant in the Black Liberation struggle from the 1960s until his death in prison in 1986. A member of the Black Panther Party and defendant in the infamous Panther 21 case, Balagoon went underground with the Black Liberation Army (BLA). Captured and convicted
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – The Star’s editorial board rightly criticizes Doug Ford for his propensity to announce massive cuts first, then begrudgingly acknowledge their unconscionable consequences later. Linda White, Elizabeth Dhuey, Michal Perlman and Petr Varmuza note that Ford’s cuts to child care will be particularly
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Kuwasi Balagoon Video Interview
Many years ago, when working on what was originally envisaged as a pamphlet, a short collection of writings by Kuwasi Balagoon, i was told of a television interview with Balagoon, conducted while he was incarcerated following the failed Brinks expropriation of 1981. These were in the days before youtube or
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: At Each Other’s Throats
American politics have always been partisan, Glen Pearson writes. But Canadian politics used to be different: Americans have always remained divided along partisan lines, while the Canadian context has been more of accommodation along general principles – a hegemony usually kept together by political parties usually hewing close to the
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Choosing Chuckles for Canadians?
Of all the ridiculous strategies for the coming federal election! Why should the liberals attack the conservatives when their real opposition in the October election is themselves? To waste time attacking conservative leader and Saskatchewan MP Andrew Scheer is assuming that he concerns Canadians. He never has been the problem.
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