Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – David Foot and Daniel Stoffman discuss Thomas Piketty’s role in highlighting the need to work toward greater equality, while pointing out a few…
2014
Beyond social democracy: new institutions, new subjects
So many of the debates on the contemporary left come back to the legacy of social democracy. The Swedish experience came closest to fulfilling social democratic ideals in the post-war…
Advice From Sears
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ Robin Sears is a past master of political strategy. In this morning’s Toronto Star, he offers strategic advice about how each of our three main leaders should approach the…
A Harper Naming Contest
Although there is no official prize, except possibly the profound gratitude of all those who aspire to rid our country of the Harper regime, a response by Scotian to a…
Great Unposted Predictions #nlpoli
Sometimes you find the strangest things among the draft posts. Here’s a sample from a January 2012 draft post that never saw the light of day that offered a forecast…
The difference was in knowing Thumper.
If you thought of Thumper back in his political days, they were not always warm and fuzzy thoughts. Thumper was better known at that time as Donald S. Macdonald, M.P.…
Stephen Harper and the Movement That Could Destroy Him
Well he hasn't been seen in public for several days, since his scary year-end TV interview, where not even four coats of pancake make-up could conceal the crazed look in…
Theo Colborn’s Legacy Will Be Kept Alive By TEDX
Dr. Theo Colborn, founder of the Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX), died on December 14, 2014. For nearly 30 years, she studied the effects that chemicals used in the fossil fuel…
Strange Goings On In Ontario Anti-Wind Movement
A number of Ontario ERT (Environmental Review Tribunal) decisions were released just before Xmas; they can be found here. The results should no longer be surprising; forces opposing the development…
Does Cuba Get an MLB Team Now?
So, there have been 181 Major League Baseball players from Cuba , 230 from Puerto Rico , and 557 from the Dominican Republic . My friend, who cares not about…
The 10 Ten SRBP Posts of 2014 #nlpoli
People love to read posts that contain nothing more than lists. You know this is true because every self-appointed guru of the Internet will give you a list of simple…
Another Good Reason Why Rex Murphy Should be Fired
You might think that after all that happened at the CBC this year, Rex Murphy might know when to press the mute button.You might think that with all those horrible…
This is the last post on Alberta Diary, sort of: Welcome to AlbertaPolitics.ca
Your blogger with Alberta Premier Jim Prentice. Your blogger with another Alberta premier, whose name escapes him at the moment, and with a former Alberta opposition leader. Maybe it’s evidence…
Lest We Forget
H/t Michael Nabert Recommend this Post
Perhaps The Police Should Stop Brutalizing People
… instead of blaming protesters for their ill-fortune. Here is yet another incident that reminds us of the terrible abuse of power these ‘protectors’ of public safety seem quite comfortable…
The Soapbox Family’s Christmas Tree
Ms Soapbox spent Boxing Day reading, playing Battleship and wondering what to do about the Christmas tree. The Soapbox family has a fake tree. Every couple of years Ms Soapbox…
Justice Belied: The Unbalanced Scales of International Criminal Justice
Justice Belied: The Unbalanced Scales of International Criminal Justice Edited by Sebastien Chartrand and John Philpot Baraka Books, 2014 This enlightening book on international criminal justice is a collection of…
Socialism Will Continue in Cuba
Photo from Centro de Estudios Che Guevara en La Habana Comrades all: We have all lived through intense and exciting moments in the last few days. In this very month…
Bush-Clinton?
My Twitter take, on a rainy NYC morning. Link here.
Changing The Firmament
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ On the second anniversary of the founding of the Idle No More Movement, Irvin Studin writes: There can be little doubt that the aboriginal question is by far the…