The Mutually Unintelligibility of Right & Left
Recently a friend of mine on Facebook was asking why conservatives seemed to misunderstand a key aspect ofliberalism. The question was, and is, an interesting one. And it led me…
January 2016
Stand With Shawnigan-January 6th
From Sonia Furstenau’s Facebook page. It’s fairly obvious seeing this in person, but from the air you see the mountain of so called “clean” fill. Mt. Marty, as I like…
The Age of Reason, Now Closed for Business.
Overall it had a good run going back to the Age of Enlightenment and carrying on through the scientific revolution, the industrial revolution and the geopolitical revolution of the 20th…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Mariana Mazzucato comments on the need for the public sector to play a significant and direct role in sustainable economic development:The debate about the…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment 2016-01-06 09:28:00
COUNTERING THE RIGHT WING ECHO CHAMBER IN ALBERTA Mr. Mcleod has given the government six months to change forty four years of right wing boondoggles created by PC regime and…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment 2016-01-06 09:28:00
COUNTERING THE RIGHT WING ECHO CHAMBER IN ALBERTA Mr. Mcleod has given the government six months to change forty four years of right wing boondoggles created by PC regime and…
The Limits Of Principles
Despite the widely-condemned mass executions recently perpetrated by Saudi Arabia, the Trudeau government is going ahead with its $15 billion arms sale with the Middle East kingdom.Foreign Affairs Minster Stéphane…
FPTP Or Not FPTP?
I don't mind the Cullen/Coyne option, where we adopt a new system, have one election under it to see how we like it, and then have a referendum, where going…
International Year of Yum
2016 is the year of the pulse. Pulses are the edible seeds of plants in the legume family and they are delicious! Pulses are super easy to cook with and…
No Morning Line for by-elections
There are two types of by-elections. There is the one that gets a pre-selected candidate into a seat and then there is the scramble version that is almost impossible to…
Justin Trudeau and the Big Dream Challenge
This is how the Cons and their supporters in the MSM like to portray Justin Trudeau.As a hopelessly idealistic Don Quijote tilting at windmills, with promises that are made to…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment 2016-01-06 08:28:00
COUNTERING THE RIGHT WING ECHO CHAMBER IN ALBERTA Mr. Mcleod has given the government six months to change forty four years of right wing boondoggles created by PC regime and…
Working for the Clampdown
Listening to the CBC news on the way in with Son Three this morning – and with the world seeming palpably (more) dangerous, here and here and here – we…
Let’s hear it for the Fraser Institute geniuses #nlpoli
A year after Kathy Dunderdale left office, the Fraser Institute said she was one of the best fiscal managers of all the Premiers in Canada.Provincial Conservatives repeated the story anywhere…
Mary Chapman: Are Women People?
Influential feminist Alice Duer Miller’s question "Are Women People?" still rings true after 100 years, writes Mary Chapman, a professor of English at the University of British Columbia. The post…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Skirting cats.
Jan. 5: Just thinkin’
Norbert Cunningham, the noted columnist and education authority who writes for the Irving press, has read a book. I'm so happy. It's a book by Stephen Pinker on how the…
Albertans are more progressive than you might think. I’m not surprised.
A new report, “The Quiet Majority“, released by a new group called Progress Alberta shows that we Albertans may be more progressive than we believe we are. According to a…
Court Orders Creation of 50-Metre "Bubble Zone" to Protect Company Logging Old-Growth Forest on Vancouver Island
This is a guest post by filmmaker Daniel J. Pierce. The Wilderness Committee and other forest activists were in court in Victoria on Monday to limit Teal Jones' latest attempt…