Review: Coming Up Short
Coming Up Short sets out to ask what it is like to come of age as a working-class person in contemporary North America, and ends up answering — or at…
October 2016
Trade, Trade, Trade
I recall an interview with prime minister Trudeau at the 6-month mark of his ascent to power. He told the interviewer that his overarching responsibility was to be an agent…
Idiocy on the 401
This just happened. This idiot did an illegal U-turn right in front of us and is now blocking the Westbound 401 near exit 730 at Cardinal, Ont. this is going…
Where Has All the Wildlife Gone?
The latest Living Planet Report has been released. A few years ago the World Wildlife Fund in conjunction with the London Zoological Society and other groups issued a LPR that…
The Obvious Solution to BC’s Pathetic World Class Oil Spill Response
We need to move to the post-carbon energy infrastructure now. The Heiltsuk are enduring the collateral damage of us not doing so. And they will for years to come. We…
CETA: The Real Deal
While it looks, unfortunately, like the Belgian opposition to CETA is dissolving, it is perhaps instructive to understand the core of Wallonia’s concerns about it. While some of it revolves…
Turning our Backs on Prime Ministers, the necessity of Protest. . . .
"When we revolt it's not for a particular culture. We simply revolt because, for many reasons, we can no longer breath." -Franz Fanon Years ago (so long ago that I…
Turning our Backs on Prime Ministers, the necessity of Protest. . . .
“When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We simply revolt because, for many reasons, we can no longer breath.” -Franz Fanon Years ago (so long ago that I…
Turning our Backs on Prime Ministers, the necessity of Protest. . . .
“When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We simply revolt because, for many reasons, we can no longer breath.” -Franz Fanon Years ago (so long ago that I…
Why North American Cities are Different Than European
We often look at urban design on Things Are Good so it’s worth thinking about how we got here. The decisions made centuries ago impact how our cities operate and…
LawFact of the Day: Civil Litigation
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday October 27, 2016. Today we are talking about Civil Litigation. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Oct…
The Great Divide
Thomas Edsall has an interesting column in this morning’s New York Times. This election, he writes has turned the two parties on their heads: According to the Oct. 20 Reuters-IPSOS…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jordan Brennan points out why Nova Scotia (and other jurisdictions) should move past austerity economics: The McNeil Liberals appear set to rack…
Rethinking political communication.
Read something the other day that said young people ignore political pamphlets. What was new about this puzzled us. If it looks like a political pamphlet, it deserves to be…
Justin Trudeau and the Farcical Youth Summit Protest
I have to admit it was a great photo-op, and a sure way to get the attention of the Con media.A small group of demonstrators at the CLC's Young Workers…
Three for Thursday #nlpoli
Quebec opposes more federal cash for Muskrat Falls The Government of Quebec has always opposed federal loan guarantees for Muskrat Falls on the grounds that it skews the hydro playing…
The white flight of Derek Black (repost)
Their public conference had been interrupted by a demonstration march and a bomb threat, so the white nationalists decided to meet secretly instead. They slipped past police officers and protesters…
There is no neutral there: Appalachia as a mythic “Trump Country” (repost)
Of the 2016 presidential election, New York Times international affairs correspondent Roger Cohen wrote, “The race is tightening once again because Trump’s perceived character – a strong leader with a…
Taking Trump voters’ concerns seriously means listening to what they’re actually saying (repost)
Donald Trump’s supporters deserve to have their concerns taken seriously. If the media and commentators in 2016 can agree on nothing else, it’s this. It’s a bit of an odd…