A suggestion for Canada’s big banks
Dear RBC, CIBC, BMO, Scotiabank, TD, and National Bank: Hello, custodians of Canada’s wealth. As a client of one of your banks (actually, it’s one of your cheap knock-offs; let’s…
Dear RBC, CIBC, BMO, Scotiabank, TD, and National Bank: Hello, custodians of Canada’s wealth. As a client of one of your banks (actually, it’s one of your cheap knock-offs; let’s…
Will it be America or Amerikkka by the end of 2026? Will America survive its 250th year? The post Will America Turn 250? first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Three Way Fight mourns antifascist researcher, writer, and organizer Chip Berlet, who died on January 30th. For some fifty years, Chip was a dedicated opponent of both far right politics…
One unacknowledged assumption is most certainly shared by the would-be leaders of a “free” Alberta: The new country they hope to create could not function as a democracy. Indeed, from…
This and that for your Sunday reading.- John Ripton writes about the connection between the egregious concentration of wealth and the rise of fascist politics. And Virginia Heffernan points out…
Alberta has already begun restricting transgender rights, and in the wake of the shooting in Tumbler Ridge this week, I fully expect that the UCP government will move to further…
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Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Will Snell points out the connection between extreme wealth and unconscionable impunity as epitomized by Jeffrey Epstein and his elite co-conspirators. And Joan Wallach…
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My coat was stolen while at Trifons on Friday night, but their staff were able to identify who did it from security footage. From their ID of their regular customers…
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No institutions have put more people into the middle class than unions. They were largely... The post Trump—union buster first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
The material below the separator line was first posted at IN-SIGHTS in April, 2013. Today, an acquaintance reminded me about Sean Holman’s important work across many years. In the early…
I used to be a communist that believed everyone should be equal, or was that a Christian that believed all men are created equal. Whatever, perhaps it is time to…
UBC Professor Patrick Condon used Facebook to circulate an opinion from former NDP Minister of Municipal Affairs, Darlene Marzari. It had been published in BC Orders of the Day, a…
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