Enquiring Canadian minds want to know.
As a youngster in public relations, we used to reassure clients that people would read anything by pointing out that a million Americans bought the supermarket tabloid National Enquirer each…
October 2016
The Mustafa Principle #nlpoli
Go back to Friday’s post about false choices. That’s where you will find the explanation for the 11 hour marathon meeting. The final agreement is more about the Premier’s need…
The Climate File Heats Up
“You can’t be a climate leader and build pipelines.” In a moment of role reversal, that’s the message students will be delivering to teacher-turned-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when they descend…
The Climate File Heats Up
“You can’t be a climate leader and build pipelines.” In a moment of role reversal, that’s the message students will be delivering to teacher-turned-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when they descend…
Truth and Reconciliation #nlpoli
Long ago, so long ago no one remembers when, they did away with Virtue in Newfoundland politics. To be on the safe side, they slit the throats of her twins,…
Victoria is the best place to be a woman in Canada
A recent study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives confirms Victoria as the best city to be a woman in Canada in 2016. The capital of British Columbia also…
Forgeddabout the Polls: Trump will win!
Norpath The Primary Model Guru The Primary Model forecasts an 87% certain Trump win in two weeks time: The prediction formula of the Primary Model, as shown in Table 4,…
BC Hydro Missed Rare and Endangered Species During Site C Environmental Assessment, New Research Shows
Scientists have discovered rare and notable species in the Site C dam flood zone that were missed in BC Hydro’s environmental assessment of the $8.8 billion project, including spider and…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Lounging cats.
Gull Lake Hotel Fire
I didn’t hear until last week that the town of Gull Lake, on the Trans-Canada Highway, lost its Hotel building on Thanksgiving weekend. It was arson. This Summer we spent…
How do you solve a problem like precarious work?
Finance Minister Bill Morneau has taken quite a bit of heat for his tone deaf comments about the reality of precarious work, specifically saying that we should just “get used…
Certain Days, Clandestine Occupations: DOUBLE LAUNCH Evening Against Prison (and for resistance!)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 5:30pm at the Center for Gender Advocacy 1500 de Maisonneuve West, #404 (métro Guy-Concordia) Join us as we launch the 2017 Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners…
Clear the Way for the Prophets of Rage
When a friend first told me that members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy, and Cypress Hill were joining forces to “Make America Rage Again” with a musical “super…
Too Much Climate Change Truth
Brad Wall’s “plan is laughable“. That’s because it isn’t a plan to address climate change, it’s a plan to sweep it under the rug for another decade. Too bad we’re…
Rebel Youth offers depth but lacks dimension
Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada Ian Milligan University of British Columbia Press, 2014 Many readers of this magazine will remember April 1971.…
Politicians Must Stop Breeding Cynicism: Justin Harper Edition
Old politics is all about breeding apathy and cynicism so the “leaders” can get on with their business, and the …
After big election promises, Trudeau Liberals sell a future without job security for young Canadians
Photo by DoD News Earlier this week, federal Liberal Finance Minister Bill Morneau suggested there is no solution to precarious employment, arguing that we must prepare young workers for an…
We Can Use Nanotechnology to Scrub CO2
Scientists working with nanotechnology to try and create methanol from CO2 accidentally discovered that they made ethanol. Happy accidents are always welcomed – particularly when it can help the environment…
Why I hope CETA fails
Michael Geist in today’s Globe & Mail gives cogent reasons why the EU-Canada trade deal is bad for Canada, and for our democracy. This bad trade deal has not been…
"You Can’t Respect People Because Most People Aren’t Worthy of Respect."
So says the man who proclaims himself the “voice of the people,” Donald J. Trump, Republican nominee for president of the United States. The New York Times, no fan of…