Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Beth Gutelius writes that any discussion about the future of work can draw important lessons from the past, with most of the issues facing workers today echoing or arising out of ones which have surfaced before: The set of structural forces that has
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Politics – Toronto Lawyer | Omar Ha-Redeye: Premier Ford – the Early Days
Omar Ha-Redeye discussed some of the policies and politics of the new Ontario government on CJRU with Nancy Cheema. Nancy Cheema and Omar Ha-Redeye discuss the early political moves of Premier Ford and the new provincial government.
Continue readingPolitics – Toronto Lawyer | Omar Ha-Redeye: CBC Interview on Better Local Government Act
Omar Ha-Redeye was interviewed on CBC News by Dwight Drummond on Bill 5, Better Local Government Act, 2018.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Prab Gill saga seems to have legs, so UCP Leader Jason Kenney attacks environmentalist Tzeporah Berman …
Astonishingly, the Prab Gill saga appears to have legs. Yesterday, the Star Metro arm of the Toronto Star’s effort to create a national footprint, informed Alberta readers there’s no way the United Conservative Party will be revealing the contents of its insider investigation of ballot stuffing and snatching by Mr.
Continue readingAlberta Politics: If F. W. de Klerk’s apartheid comparison to the fossil fuel economy is OK, why is David Suzuki’s slavery analogy an outrage?
A speech in Calgary last week by the last white president of South Africa in which F. W. de Klerk suggested the challenges faced by Alberta in the waning days of the petroleum industry may not be dissimilar from those facing his country in the last days of apartheid seems
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: “That’s their business, not Canada’s”
Is Jim Carr, Minister of Screwing Up Industry talking about Bombardier or Kinder Morgan? It’s a trick question, he said that about both. Last year McParland wrote the following hilarity that he got so very wrong: The most ludicrous assertion offered in the wake of TransCanada’s announcement was Natural Resources
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Laura Basu discusses the media’s role in accepting and perpetuating the corporatist ideology behind privatization campaigns: (R)esearch carried out by myself at Cardiff University has shown that while austerity has been controversial, trickle-down reforms like privatisation, deregulation and corporation tax cuts have
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Andrea Horwath is going to win Ontario on June 7 – that’s my story, and I’m stickin’ to it!
Happy Victoria Day! I’m feeling good about my prediction that the next Premier of Ontario will be Andrea Horwath. When I made that prediction back on Feb. 27, scads of commenters on social media and quite a few on this blog and at Rabble.ca said I was crazy. This being
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Call it what it is, says labour minister: successive Conservative governments denied Alberta working people their rights
CALGARY – For many years, Alberta working people were routinely denied rights other Canadians take for granted, Alberta Labour Minister Christina Gray said last weekend in a bluntly worded speech on labour relations policy in Alberta. The speech provided insights into the direction the NDP government of Premier Rachel Notley
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: A Little Humour Too Much For The White House Press
The WHCD has always included a roast, so long as I can remember back to the W Bush years. Colbert’s roast of Bush is among my most favourite moments in history. Why are you guys making this about Sarah’s looks? I said she burns facts and uses the ash to
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: Cambridge Analytica Ain’t Nuthin: Look Out For i360 and DataTrust
There are two dangers in the media howl over Trump’s computer gurus Cambridge Analytica, the data-driven psy-ops company founded by billionaire brown-shirts, the Mercer Family. The story is that Cambridge Analytica, once directed by Steve Bannon, by shoplifting Facebook profiles to bend your brain, is some unique “bad apple” of
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Reporter Was Right Before
When someone is correct multiple times about major events, it’s worth hearing what they have to say about the latest unfolding. Trump’s Presidency is crumbling, and if Americans wake up, it won’t last long into next year.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Up Is Down In Moe Town
Will @CBCSask and @leaderpost and @620ckrm let the Premier continue to lie without being challenged?Does @ryanmeili or someone else have to say something first? Is there no permission to correct the Premier's lies?#skpoli #carbontax — Saskboy (@saskboy) April 3, 2018 Saskatchewan's emissions are going up, not down https://t.co/nlZxCrOsv3 pic.twitter.com/KspZuhpexX —
Continue readingAlberta Politics: The Vriend Case has been closed for 20 years, but the Alberta political story continues
PHOTOS: The front page of the Toronto Globe and Mail on the day after the Supreme Court’s historic ruling in the Vriend case. Below: A screenshot of Delwin Vriend taken from a recent CBC video; the late Ralph Klein, premier of Alberta (Photo: Chuck Szmurlo, Wikimedia Commons); Jason Kenney, circa
Continue readingAlberta Politics: AlbertaPolitics.ca regrets the error … advice for young reporters from the Old Copy Editor
ILLUSTRATIONS: “And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he struck the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their animals also.” Numbers 20:11. The scene imagined by François Perrier, 1590-1650. (Image: Wikimedia Commons.) Below: An image of the WSJ’s now justly
Continue reading52 Ideas: Maxime Bernier should walk in other people’s shoes before he accuses anyone of racism
In the 1970s, Lincoln Alexander fought the caucus of the Progressive Conservative Party. Mr. Alexander fought them because as a Black man, he wanted to support anti-hate speech legislation. His party, the Progressive Conservative Party, didn’t like the legislation because they felt it would curtain both the concept of
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Is rural crime actually getting worse in Alberta? What we know and what we don’t
PHOTOS: Unlike these guys, real RCMP officers cost money to train, pay and outfit. When he promised many more of them to rural Alberta, Jason Kenney didn’t explain how he proposes to pay the freight. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons.) Below: Mr. Kenney and Postmedia political columnists Don Braid, Rick Bell and
Continue readingScripturient: Reading as a forgotten art
Earlier this month (February, 2018), the Globe & Mail published an essay by author Michael Harris titled, “I have forgotten how to read.” In it, he recounted how he recently tried to read a single chapter of a book, but failed. Frustrated, instead turned to TV: Paragraphs swirled; sentences snapped
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: On Media Piracy and "FairPlay Canada"
This is a new development to me, but then I haven’t been following the issue of piracy all that closely for some time. The upshot is that a group of commercial interests are lobbying the CRTC to set up an anti-piracy panel. The submissions started flowing in after the coalition
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Crytpo-Realities
The dodos run hither and thither, depending on which way the wind blows, and what the media tells them (99% of which is confusion, illusion, propaganda or lies — aka, bullshit). But as I’ve said, cryptocurrencies are not going away. Here is the world’s leading trend analyst, Gerald Celente, on the subject:
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