Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!
I so hope you had a wonderful Indigenous Peoples’ Day yesterday! In “America” there is a movement to replace the systemically racist Columbus Day. It’s spreading briskly; soon it may…
October 2016
The Bigger Picture #nlpoli
Whatever the provincial government is doing about its own spending or the provincial economy generally or whatever it is up to starts at 9:00 AM. They announced an invitation-only event…
This week’s column: inside Clinton HQ
Lisa with Clinton campaign deputy comms director Mary Jennings Rutherford. BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Want to know what it’s like deep inside the Hillary Clinton campaign? This is what it’s like.…
Donald Trump on Hillary Clinton: Now and Then
As we know these days Donald Trump can't say enough bad things about Hilary Clinton.He calls her "lying, dying, and crooked Hillary" and accuses her of enabling her husband's sexual…
Former Senior US Prosecutors, Republicans, Slam Trump
Add to the growing ranks of prominent Republicans turning on Donald Trump, a number of senior prosecutors and Justice Department figures. From Politico: …former Republican appointees to senior Justice Department…
HRC in Ohio tonight
More than 18,000, says the Secret Service. Why don’t you try and throw her in jail tonight, you racist bastard.
Foreign Policy Backs Clinton
Foreign Policy magazine has, for the first time in its half-century history, endorsed a candidate for president of the United States. While the magazine and its columnists are anything but…
It’s Official: Trump Won The Debate
So declares America’s favourite crazed evangelical, Pat Robertson. Presumably, his assessment came from on high. Recommend this Post
Never Watch a Presidential Debate When You’ve Got the Flu
Ms Soapbox has the flu and missed Thanksgiving dinner last night with her family and friends. She stayed home and watched the second Presidential debate. It almost finished her off.…
What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You
While much of western society enjoys living in willful ignorance about climate change, the fact is, what you don’t know can hurt you. Tim Wallace of the New York Times…
Canadian complicity and the Saudi-led war on Yemen
Photo by Ibrahem Qasim On October 9, 2016, Saudi Arabia bombed a crowded funeral for a prominent family in Sana’a, Yemen. As first responders attended to the victims, the Saudis…
Oct. 10: It doesn’t matter whether they’re named Hitler or Stalin or Mao or Clinton or Trump
It took me two minutes to read today’s irving press. It was all, typical holiday coverage – with the exception of a commentary by Steve Malloy which is well worth…
Collus report debunks Block conspiracies
Every year, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) publishes the scorecard of local distribution companies (LDCs). Across the province, more than 70 LDCs are ranked and rated according to performance, customer…
First, the Good News…
The World Energy Council predicts global demand for energy will peak in 2030 and decline thereafter. That’s the good news. Now, for the bad news. That’s “per capita” global demand…
Columbus is no hero of mine
Italian-North Americans — especially those of us with roots in the Mezzogiorno (and I include the Ciociaria and Abbruzzo here) — don’t need a Genoese genocidal rapist as our hero.…
Trump Never Had A Chance
Guest Post by Chris Henderson Seemingly every day, someone tells me that they’re worried Donald Trump will win the election. Aside from the natural anxiety that comes with a possibility…
The not-so-great debate
She needed to look and sound presidential. She did that. She needed to avoid getting baited by him. She did that. She needed to respond, forcefully, to the two things…
Donald Trump and the Night of the Stalker
When the latest chapter in the horror show that is the U.S. presidential election was finally over last night, I was shocked to hear a CNN pundit declare that he…