Prenzie Scamels
Four hundred years after he wrote them, we still use in everyday speech the many words and phrases Shakespeare coined. He gave us so many, it would be difficult, if…
April 2015
Swing batta swing
Needless to say, the range of potential outcomes in the Alberta election (along with the continued flow of news battering the Prentice PCs as they try to regain some type…
His Waterloo
The chattering classes are praising Stephen Harper’s political smarts. He has set the agenda for the next election, they say, and he has delivered a budget that the opposition parties…
Alberta’s Gilligan’s Island Election
Math is difficult. The most difficult math at the moment is figuring out where Prentice finds the 40 seats he needs for a majority. My latest for the Post: The…
"Is There A Poltician In Canada Who Will Simply Speak The Truth?"
That is the question Don Graves asks in his hard-hitting lead letter printed in this morning’s Star. Enjoy. I look out my window and see sunshine and vibrant signs of…
Hot Docs 22: CanCon and BrandCon
North America’s largest and most sweeping doc-deluge, the Canadian International Hot Docs Festival, is once again in full swing, and the moment wouldn’t be complete, for me at least, without…
The Conservatives, sound finance and the facts of recent history
Louis-Philippe Rochon Associate Professor, Laurentian University Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics With the tabling of a new federal budget on April 21, the Conservatives are trying to reinvent themselves as…
Bearing bad news for NDP’s Tom Mulcair.
George Lakoff is an American who thinks. The UCLA Berkeley professor was in Toronto last week. We missed a chance to meet him. He is reported to have told his…
Stephen Harper’s Plan to Brainwash Us Beyond Recognition
We knew the Cons are already spending $7.5 million dollars of OUR money to promote their smoke and mirrors budget.To remind Canadians that many of them can expect a cheque…
Bad Designs
I’m not a graphic designer. I was not formally educated in that art. However, over the years, my jobs in editing and writing for books, newspapers, magazines and publishers have…
Parkdale Tenants facing down a Landlord
Updated below (Thursday April 30th, 1:30 pm). Last Wednesday I attended an organizing meeting in the basement of the Parkdale Library for tenants of the Akelius owned buildings in the…
Parkdale Tenants facing down a Landlord
Updated below (Thursday April 30th, 1:30 pm). Last Wednesday I attended an organizing meeting in the basement of the Parkdale Library for tenants of the Akelius owned buildings in the…
Parkdale Tenants facing down a Landlord
Last Wednesday I attended an organizing meeting in the basement of the Parkdale Library for tenants of the Akelius owned buildings in the heart of Parkdale. Akelius is a Swedish…
Contending Political Strategies #nlpoli
Starting last Friday, the ironically-named Conservatives currently running the place started holding a series of “pre-budget” announcements. They started with news that to deal with the massive financial crisis they…
The Nepalese Tragedy and the Shameless Con Clowns
About a month ago I told you how Jason Kenney was bragging about the arrival of a new and massive C-17 aircraft.As only he could.And claiming it would allow the…
Has Kid Kodak lost his mind?
I deplore Bill Blair’s abuse of civil rights at the G20. I despise his defence of carding of non-whites. I oppose his candidacy as a Liberal. But I’m, you know,…
Baltimore Protests Turn Violent; State of Emergency Declared
All hell is breaking loose in many US cities over the last few months. It seems like hardly a day goes by without reports of another black man being shot…
Climate Change In The Raw
Imagine a highway full of cars, all traveling at very high speed, and all of them simultaneously going out of control. Something along those lines may be in store with…
Avalanche from Nepal Earthquake Rips Through Mt. Everest Base Camp Harrowing video
Earthquakes causing unthinkable death, damage and suffering are not such unusual occurrences, but this latest disaster in Kathmandu, Nepal hits the extreme by all measures. Living on the West Coast,…
National Energy Board to Consult Public on Pipeline Emergency Response Plans Following Kinder Morgan Secrecy Scandal
Secrecy surrounding pipeline emergency response plans will soon be the subject of public consultation conducted by the National Energy Board (NEB), according to the board’s CEO Peter Watson. As the…