Are we the happiest taxpayers?
According to the Ontario government your choices of booze, beer and wine are now at your finger tips. “We deliver” we are told. It all seems to be designed to…
August 2016
Don’t Let Anybody Tell You Differently
In the midst of Toronto's most up market neighbourhood, stands Casa Loma -- a monument to one of the last robber barons of the 19th century. Linda McQuaig writes:In the…
An Appetite for Authoritarianism. If It Looks Like Weimar and Sounds Like Weimar and Feels Like Weimar…
Grievances, real or imagined, and social change can give some people a thirst for authoritarianism. Vox.com reviews chilling research into the rise of American authoritarianism and concludes it's here to…
August 6: This is the real news. Don’t blame me for it.
In New Brunswick, the name Irving is closely identified with the championing of the Christian faith - drawing in the faithful and the wannabe faithful to the Irving chapel with…
August 6: This is the real news. Don’t blame me for it.
In New Brunswick, the name Irving is closely identified with the championing of the Christian faith - drawing in the faithful and the wannabe faithful to the Irving chapel with…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Rachel West charts how higher wages and improved social supports can reduce crime rates and their resulting costs.- Lana Payne comments on the glass…
Saturday Photo: Ducks Again…
There have been years when there have been at least three duck families cruising around the ponds in Outremont. But last year I don't think I saw any--bad timing, bad…
Saturday Photo: Ducks Again…
There have been years when there have been at least three duck families cruising around the ponds in Outremont. But last year I don't think I saw any--bad timing, bad…
If You Are Judged By The Company You Keep
Watch this video for confirmation of things you probably already know about Donald Trump:Recommend this Post
Brokering Political Power.
During one of the presentations to the special parliamentary committee on vote reform, there was an interesting remark on brokering power under different forms of voting. The speaker, an academic…
A Successful Con Man
Donald Trump's behaviour last weak appeared to be absolutely insane. Some commentators have taken to calling him the Kamikaze Candidate. But Tom Walkom warns his readers that there is a…
The Beginning of the End of Donald Trump
When I last left Donald Trump he was crowing about America great again, while seeming to take his orders from Vladimir Putin.But somehow still managing to enjoy a slim lead…
Jason Kenney on the road: time theft, corporate gifts and the mysterious absence of ‘Porky the Waster Hater’
PHOTOS: The Jason Kenney shotgun-marriage campaign’s convenient and colourful motorhome, with Mr. Kenney, exiting, in the foreground. Who owns it? Who is paying for it? Below: A billboard advertising Mr.…
YPA!
.@realDonaldTrump's team arrives at #Rio2016! pic.twitter.com/c3cFAvrhgu — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 6, 2016
Aviation Photo of the Day
Quite possibly the best fighter of its time. The Canadair Sabre in the livery of the RCAF aerobatic team, the Golden Hawks.This is actually a Mk. 5 Sabre. The ultimate…
A Primer on Neoliberalism and Democracy. Check It Out.
Geoff Kennedy, Parchment In the Fire, has published a "must read" essay on neoliberalism and democracy in the context of Greece.Perhaps the main reason that neoliberalism still clings to its…
To Fareed Zakaria, He’s a "Bullshit Artist."
To Fareed Zakaria, Donald Trump isn't much of a liar but he is a bullshit artist extraordinaire.Harry Frankfurt, an eminent moral philosopher and former professor at Princeton, wrote a brilliant…
Musical interlude
Tycoos - The Road Less Traveled (Derek Palmer Remix)
Neoliberalism and De-democratization in Greece
Public discourse of neoliberalism often fails to appreciate the extent to which it entails not a simple process of de-regulation, but rather, a process of pro-market re-regulation. In many cases,…
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Explained Perfectly
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a trade agreement mostly negotiated in secret by quite a few governments bordering the pacific ocean. Canada has been a part of these negotiations and…