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Continue readingIn-Sights: BC Hyjacked, provincial utility
In the early 2000s, Liberals changed BC Hydro’s primary purpose from utility service for the public to financial service for party friends and other special interests. BC NDP carries on much as before, except they slightly altered beneficiaries of the utility’s massive spending…
Continue readingAlberta Politics: There are better ways for Alberta’s only New Democrat to spend her time than calling for more Canadian troops on Russia’s doorstep
Last week, Heather McPherson, New Democrat Member of Parliament for Edmonton Strathcona, was sounding as belligerent as any Alberta Conservative on the topic of what she termed “Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.” In a lead-up to a question in the House of Commons, a clip of which Ms. McPherson distributed on
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Teenage Spaceship
Christ I love this song.
Continue readingQueer-liberal: We’re all exhausted and going a little crazy in these Covid times, but at least I now have my AstraZeneca vaccine appointment
I regret really letting health care officials have it with my last post. Like all of you, I’m exhausted after a year plus of this pandemic. The massive flaws of our species are on full display everywhere you look. The only thing that gives me solace when I observe Dumpster
Continue readingMagpie Brûlé: A Budget Two Years in the Waiting
Today was the day a couple new records in Canada political history were finally settled. David Akin of Global News pointed to these on his Twitter feed recently, that when Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland rose in the House today to present her first budget, it had been 762 days since
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: When Premier Horgan – A Delegator – Steps Up With Major Announcements It Is Serious
Premier John Horgan addresses the media with provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry in the background on Monday, April 19, 2021. PROVINCE OF B.C. B.C. Premier John Horgan has announced a suite Read more… The post When Premier Horgan – A Delegator – Steps Up With Major Announcements It
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Interview with Margit Schiller, former Red Army Faction Political Prisoner and Author of Remembering the Armed Struggle
available from leftwingbooks.net Margrit Schiller was an early member of the Red Army Faction, the West German urban guerrilla group. In 1971 she was captured and charged with a murder she did not commit, and upon her release she returned to the underground, being captured again in early 1974. She
Continue readingKersplebedeb: The Red Nation on The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth
available from leftwingbooks.net A powerful guide to Indigenous liberation and the fight to save the planet, published by Common Notions, now available from leftwingbooks at https://www.leftwingbooks.net/book/content/red-deal-indigenous-action-save-our-earth One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, The Red Deal is a platform that encompasses everyone, including non-Indigenous comrades and relatives who live on Indigenous land.
Continue readingScripturient: The Serpent Gets a Bad Rap
Why doesn’t anyone ever think of the serpent as humankind’s liberator instead of some villain who got us kicked out of Eden? Why does Eve take the blame for listening to the serpent instead of being considered another hero for taking a bold step to ensure our collective freedom? Okay,
Continue readingIn-Sights: Wind turbine for when the winds don’t blow
Years ago, the head of BC Hydro said the least-cost solutions to energy needs were conservation and efficiency. While that remains true, recovery of energy now wasted would be advantageous. Alpha 311 now offers a vertical axis wind turbine that can produce electricity by harvesting energy produced by moving vehicles.
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk calls out the premiers who continue to spout talking points about “balance” while failing utterly to control the spread of deadly COVID-19 variants. Jillian Kestler-D’Amours discusses how Ontario’s medical calamity was entirely preventable, while David Moscrop makes the case for Doug
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Will Justin Fish or Will He Continue to Cut Bait?
The master of over-promising and under-delivering, Justin Trudeau, will need something better than glib assurances and fanciful aspirations when president Biden convenes his virtual summit on climate change this week. Between Biden’s summit and the COP26 climate conference in Britain this fall, world leaders and would-be leaders will be
Continue readingMagpie Brûlé: The Plot, Still Completely Lost
This weekend was a very cathartic time for many of us in Ontario. Between Doug Ford’s flailing on Friday night, to the smoke pouring out of the Premier’s office on the weekend & the growing feeling of anger from most Ontarians towards this government in this moment of crisis, it’s
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: There’s Yer Problem – Trudeau, Legault, Kenney, Ford, Horgan and Moe.
A year into the Covid pandemic we’re still dealing with a yo-yo of openings and lockdowns, openings and lockdowns, that, as new variants emerge may continue well into the future. The Tyee’s Andrew Nikiforuk writes that our ongoing misfortune is largely man-made, the handiwork of our premiers and prime
Continue readingMagpie Brûlé: Talking Budget Day in Ottawa & the COVID Crisis in Ontario on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Lisa Kirbie. We discussed today’s Federal Budget to be introduced in Ottawa, what we should expect (or not) to be in it, what it all might say about election rumours, the
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why The Con Monster Doug Ford Should Resign
He played Russian roulette with the deadly Covid variants, and lost. Now Ontario is facing a human catastrophe that could result in as many as 30,000 Covid cases a day. Its hospitals, its ICU units, and its health workers are struggling to keep from collapsing. Read more »
Continue readingHalf an Hour: Sympathy for the Devil: Criticizing and Criticalizing the Media
These are notes taken during Shirley Steinberg’s CNIE keynote, Sympathy for the Devil: Criticizing and Criticalizing the Media: Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil – accomplishments of the devil, listeners as audience are complicit in these accomplishments. Media is the devil We need a “socially aware media pedagogy”
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Frying Pan
In Ontario, we are now in the frying pan. The Ford government has tried to turn down the heat. But they have refused to take the pan off the stove. The Toronto Star’s editorial page points to the Fordian lack of focus: Public health experts have been warning of something like
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: The future of Laurentian University is in the hands of a flawed process and an anti-education government
When Laurentian University was founded it was not to create a profit making enterprise but to create an educational institution to serve the north, one that went on to include an important partnership with the Franco-Ontarian and Indigenous communities. Using a mechanism (Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act) designed to ensure profit
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