Is The TPP Dead?
Michael Geist thinks it might be. He writes:First, the TPP may not have sufficient support to take effect, since under the terms of agreement both Japan and the United States…
May 2016
Bumper sticker solutions still work.
A fellow progressive once accused Babel-on-the-Bay of using bumper sticker solutions. What he did not realize is that the era of the bumper sticker is long gone. Maybe he had…
Tragic
The news about the Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie will affect many people, today. It will likely see them thinking about the connections between their lives and the songs that the…
Elbowgate: How the Haters Failed to Hurt Justin Trudeau
In my last post I ran a video by John Oliver, where he strongly suggested that Justin Trudeau had apologized enough for elbowgate.And that it was all just a tempest…
Red Flags #nlpoli
If you want to understand the depth of Dwight Ball's political problem, understand that as of Victoria Day, Paul Lane - never the sharpest of political knives in any drawer…
Walk # 3 – The Road To Miron
How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when
In this week’s Hill Times: it was a stupid thing to do
On the night in question, I was at an event in Toronto honouring Senator Murray Sinclair. As it was getting underway, I received a text message from one of the…
It’s time for a national postal bank in both Canada and the United States
PHOTOS: The little Post Office in downtown St. Albert, where your blogger lives, which Canada Post is anxious to close as soon as possible. Below: The U.S. Post Office in…
Paul Roundy: Why the effects of 2016 El Niño trumped climate change in the Alberta wildfire
Paul Roundy, a professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York, discusses El Niño's role in the Alberta wildfire. The post Paul Roundy: Why the effects of…
Now, More Than Ever – Boycott/Divest/Sanction
“If there is something that frightens me about the memories of the Holocaust, it is the knowledge of the awful processes which happened in Europe in general, and in Germany…
Huffington Post: An Open Letter from the World’s MPs to David Cameron
The Panama Papers starkly revealed that Britain's Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies have become the venues of choice for the anonymous corporations that facilitate tax evasion, organised crime, and terrorist…
Wouldn’t It Be Great If This Was Comedy?
It's a Big Club and you ain't in it.
May 23: not a nice day
The big, front-page story in the irving press is that Moncton's mayor wants a solution to the car-booting issue. That's nice, even commendable. But it's scarcely a big story of…
A is for Activist: Igniting children’s radical imaginations
Image from A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara, Seven Stories Press (2013) Like probably many other CD readers, I recall growing up with relatively apolitical children’s books. I remember…
66% of Brazilians Say Congress Voted Coup for Their Own Benefit
Photo by Senado Federal Less than one quarter of Brazilians think that lawmakers acted with the best interests of the country at heart when approving the coup against Dilma Rousseff.…
Temperatures Could Rise Far More Than Previously Thought If Fossil Fuel Reserves Burned
Imagine a world where average temperatures are almost 10 degrees Celsius higher than today, an Arctic with temperatures almost 20 degrees warmer and some regions deluged with four times more…
Temperatures Could Rise Far More Than Previously Thought If Fossil Fuel Reserves Burned
Imagine a world where average temperatures are almost 10 degrees Celsius higher than today, an Arctic with temperatures almost 20 degrees warmer and some regions deluged with four times more…
No Non-Polluting Victories on Victoria Day…
Stephen Hume: Province’s secrecy puts people’s health at risk STEPHEN HUME More from Stephen Hume Published on: May 20, 2016 | Last Updated: May 20, 2016 3:25 PM …
A shaggy black dog
This is our childhood dog. His name was Scotty. Who knows why. He makes a number of appearances in my sisters little commemorative memoir and biographical book about her life…