Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Labour Day reading.- Jared Bernstein comments on the prospect of a labour revival which can boost the prospects of unionized and non-unionized workers alike. And Thomas…
Miscellaneous material for your Labour Day reading.- Jared Bernstein comments on the prospect of a labour revival which can boost the prospects of unionized and non-unionized workers alike. And Thomas…
It may not be what you think. Abacus Data’s absolutely fascinating chart on what we want in leaders, below. Abandon your assumptions, all ye who enter here. And see if…
Justin Trudeau is a disciple of free trade and globalism. His pronouncements before and during the G20 summit erased any doubt on that score. He is devoutly neoliberal, just like…
The roots of racism, those feelings of fear, resentment, and hate, run very deep in the human psyche. I don’t believe anyone, no matter how benevolent or compassionate, remains unscathed.…
The roots of racism, those feelings of fear, resentment, and hate, run very deep in the human psyche. I don't believe anyone, no matter how benevolent or compassionate, remains unscathed.…
As Montreal Simon's recent post makes abundantly clear, Kellie Leitch is a pathetic human being. Her recent embrace of divisive 'dog-whistle' politics leaves no doubt about her manifest unfitness to…
It is the unwise politician who adds to the silences of their eulogy. The silences are caused by those things you said or were said on your behalf for which…
Last week, Kellie Leitch suggested that prospective immigrants to Canada should pass a "Canadian values" test. You'll remember that, during the last election, Leitch and then Minister of Immigration Chris…
Some of you noticed a problem on Monday morning with the Twitter posts from SRBP. You sent me a message and I fixed the problem.The solution was to switch the…
When I saw Donald Trump in a Detroit church, trying to appeal to African-American voters by posing as a religious person.And swaying awkwardly from side to side to the strains…
If you get any kind of enjoyment at all out of watch people tie themselves in knots, point out to a New Democrat that their party supports Muskrat Falls.Oooo -…
It’s time we learn more lessons from Archie Bunker. While the right wing continues to become increasingly clownish, we need to go back to Norman Lear’s classic 1970s sitcom, All…
PHOTOS: A Canadian Labour Day parade, well back in the day. Below: A poster for today’s Labour Day barbecue and picnic in Edmonton, J.S. Woodsworth, first leader of the CCF,…
Two things happened this week that reflect very poorly on the judgment of Wildrose Party leader Brian Jean and his supporters. The first was The Joke. The second was his…
The following is an article that I have been putting off writing for a while now, but following Hillary Clinton threatening TO GO TO WAR over this issue I found…
The following is an article that I have been putting off writing for a while now, but following Hillary Clinton threatening TO GO TO WAR over this issue I found…
While we were working on our commentary yesterday on Mack Lamoureux's CBC story covering the activities of the Soldiers of Odin in Edmonton, we were also following an interesting exchange…
Oh, my. Will politicians never learn? Of course not. This week’s political miscue was by Brian Jean, leader of the Wildrose Party. Speaking at a town hall meeting in Fort…
Photo by Laurel L. Russwurm Elizabeth May’s response to Green Party members voting to oppose Canadian support for Israeli colonialism has been wildly anti-democratic. She has not simply disagreed with…
Photo from Public Domain Some 1,000 Native American activists from the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and across the country faced off against police and security forces protecting the construction of…