Chag pesach sameach, more or less
I tried to take my 80 year old mother to synagogue for Passover because I thought she'd like it. The first synagogue we tried in Kensington Market was closed -…
April 2015
Chag pesach sameach, more or less
I tried to take my 80 year old mother to synagogue for Passover because I thought she’d like it. The first synagogue we tried in Kensington Market was closed –…
Tracking Alberta political party fundraising from 2004 to 2014
Following last week’s release of Alberta’s political party financial disclosure reports for 2014, I thought it would be interesting to look at the history of political donations in our province…
April 3: A story that isn’t in the Irvng press..
The story below is not by me. It’s a copy of an e mail I received. And it comes before the blog because my computer says it does. After losing…
Brigette DePape and the youth insurgency against Harper
Why game-changing activist Brigette DePape’s Get Out the Youth Vote tour is a much-needed youth democratic insurgency against Stephen Harper. The post Brigette DePape and the youth insurgency against Harper…
Climate Change is Not a Left-Right Issue
This is a guest post by Kai Nagata, energy and democracy director at the Dogwood Initiative. Climate change shouldn’t be a left-wing versus right-wing political issue. I might take some…
Religion is a drug best served with moderation and skepticism…
On this Good Friday, when all North Americans (and many others in the West) get a statutory day off – a privilege not extended to any other faiths, yet some…
The REAL Problem with Jim Prentice’s 2015 Budget
The “historic” Prentice budget is an historic missed opportunity. Instead of simply and boldly correcting a regressive tax system that relied too much on nonrenewable resource revenue to subsidize current…
The REAL Problem with Jim Prentice’s 2015 Budget
The "historic" Prentice budget is an historic missed opportunity. Instead of simply and boldly correcting a regressive tax system that relied too much on nonrenewable resource revenue to subsidize current…
The REAL Problem with Jim Prentice’s 2015 Budget
We should all welcome Premier Prentice’s commitment to getting off the energy-revenue roller-coaster and his plans to replenish Alberta’s savings. But two things bothered me about the premier’s pre-budget TV…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your long weekend reading. – Jim Buchanan comments on the mountain of inequality looming over all of our political choices. Laurie Posner interviews Paul Gorski about the…
Jesse Brown Was right: The CBC Did Cave
A week ago I wrote a post based on a report by Canadaland’s Jesse Brown asserting that pressure had been exerted by the Keilburger organization over a documentary from the…
National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month in Canada. I don’t know if this gets widespread acknowledgement much less appreciation among the public and in the schools, but it should. Poetry is…
Podcast: The roots of the Greece crisis in European integration and what this means for the future
https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/podcast150402-europe.mp3 As the simmering crisis between Greece and the institutions formerly known as the Troika heats up again, it’s a good time to look once more at the roots of…
Something From the Heart – National Caregiver Day, 2015
I know that I promised my next blog post would be about private and national care insurance plans, but to be honest, that was before I remembered that National Caregiver…
Upper Crust Welfare Bums
http://www.pilgrimreaderbooks.com/ Stephen Harper claims that there are many government programs we can no longer afford. And, he says, he certainly will not create any new ones. But that is exactly…
The Incredibly Wonderful and Amazing Humbling of Jason Kenney
For years Jason Kenney has been considered the brightest star in the Con constellation, after his depraved leader Stephen Harper.The hardest working minister, the Pope of the Con's religious base,…
No one said fares should be fair
Tickets for once a week travel on the 57-year-old 49-car ferry North Island Princess, between Powell River and Texada Island, for a car, driver and passenger, cost $1,634.49 a year,…
Ontario’s brave new cap and trade program
The Globe and Mail just broke the story on what will likely be the defining component of Kathleen Wynne's legacy: The Ontario Liberals are introducing a big cap and trade…