Post Capitalism
Here is a link to my review of an extremely interesting new book by Guardian economics and political columnist Paul Mason. “Paul Mason is a leading British economic journalist, currently…
October 2016
Sometimes, you can’t win
The Opposition and the media (and me) hammer Trudeau’s government for the electoral reform stuff, and we demand he rethink it. So Trudeau rethinks it, and the Opposition and the…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Peter Fleming writes that the promise of entrepreneurial self-employment has given way to the nightmare of systematic precarious work: (T)he move to reclassify…
"The Definition of Hypocrisy"
Canada’s biggest customer for lethal military hardware also happens to be the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the Middle East with a seemingly unquenchable appetite for slaughtering civilians. Former…
Focus on Latin America: Colombia’s rejected peace and the Pink Tide in trouble
Political Eh-conomy Radio returns with a new logo, new life and a new episode focused on Latin America. First up: Aaron Tauss, assistant professor of International Political Economy at the…
Liberal 1 Year Report Card
The Trudeau Liberals returned to power on October 19, 2015. In the last year they’ve done some things I’ve disagreed with, and some things I approve of. I’ll list them…
Leonard Cohen deserves the Nobel Prize, too
News that songwriter Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature shook the literati worldwide. Here was a pop icon sitting in the august company of Alice Munro, Mario Vargas…
Is “Postcapitalism” On the Horizon?
Photo by Paul Sableman Paul Mason is a leading British economic journalist, currently a columnist for The Guardian. He is also a long time left political activist. His new book,…
Big Three Bargaining: Different Ways of Making History
Photo by Ford Motor Company Canadian autoworkers have long been pace setters in the Canadian labour movement and as soon as its most recent agreement with General Motors was ratified,…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday October 19, 2016. Today we are talking about Family Law. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Oct…
The Anti-Russian Lynch Mob Fails
Photo by Thierry Ehrmann With an all-but official declaration of a new “Cold War” on Russia by the United States, the journalistic atmosphere in the US, the EU and the…
Effective Nonviolent Resistance Against Tyranny
Using violence to fight violence isn’t the best approach, instead nonviolent resistance can be used effectively (and less ironically). In this TED talk Jamila Raqib explores what are the best…
On false prophets
It wasn’t long ago when a series of Canadian federal elections saw Stephen Harper and his Conservatives take more and more power – culminating in over four years of a…
A Festivus Moment
Like me, some of you were probably great fans of Seinfeld, the “show about nothing.” As such, you may recall the Festivus airing of grievances: Well, in that spirit I…
October 19: one year later
One year ago today, the Liberal Party won a big, big election victory. One year later, what do we know? We know that Justin Trudeau and his party are still…
There’s The Rub
Pierre Trudeau famously quipped that Joe Clark wanted to be “headwaiter to the provinces.” Susan Delacourt writes that his son will be no headwaiter: In the years since Trudeau the…
What’s in it for us?
That is not a selfish question. It came up the other day when reading another boring presentation to the House of Commons special committee on electoral reform. “What is in…
Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and the WikiLeak’s E-Mails
They will face each other for the last time in Las Vegas tonight, and for Donald Trump it will be his last chance to try to stop Hilary Clinton from…
Rumpole and Reversible Error #nlpoli
Brian Tobin’s favourite judge may be on his way to the Supreme Court of Canada but along the way he will probably have to answer a few questions about his…