July 21: A bad, bad day.
A reader sent the following item to me – and depressed the hell out of me. – Because I think what it say is true. It doesn’t mean that Hillary…
A reader sent the following item to me – and depressed the hell out of me. – Because I think what it say is true. It doesn’t mean that Hillary…
Photo from UMFA.ca The University of Manitoba is on strike. Since 1st November, more than 1,200 faculty members took to the picket line to protest the lack of funding for…
As I walk the picket lines with my colleagues, still strongly supporting the strike in its second week with no sign of a resolution, our stakes are very concrete: increased…
Trump’s win of the electoral college (despite losing the popular vote by 2 million votes) thrust many into the streets for the first time against the billionaire real estate mogul…
These are some specific documents available on Kersplebedeb and related sites that are of particular relevance in the present juncture: When Race Burns Class: Settlers Revisited, an interview with J.…
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Paul Krugman writes about the dangers of Donald Trump’s crony capitalist infrastructure plan. And Tom Parkin warns us that Justin Trudeau’s Canadian equivalent…
In this guest post, my good friend Dom offers a point of view worth serious consideration. In contrast to my post yesterday, in which I heaped scorn on those who…
Until midnight on November 22nd (less than 36 hours from now), you can download Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern by J. Sakai, for free:…
Just to let people know, for the remainder of 2016, Kersplebedeb Leftwingbooks.Net is offering free shipping on orders of $50 or more, anywhere in the world. Please note that this…
…is complaining about a comedy show being mean to him. Seriously. I’d love to be able to joke about him having access to the nuclear codes, but I just can’t.…
Stephen Lewis is still one of the top orators in the political arena decades after he left electoral politics. Take a few minutes to listen to some straight talk…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Nov 21, 2016 at 7:42am PST Trump says gay marriage…
My take, in today’s Hill Times: Warren Kinsella, a former assistant to Mr. Chrétien and now a Hill Times columnist, said sexism played a role in both Ms. Clinton’s and…
I’m tired, of a lot of different things. I’m tired of repeating myself when it comes to people expressing suspicion and denigration of trans identities. I’m tired of educating my…
Over the last decade or so there has been a big push in North America to get students in to STEM education. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are important…
It’s tempting, after Donald Trump’s election, to think magically. If you’re an evangelical, why worry about climate change if you’re convinced that The Rapture is just around the corner? And,…
Did you hear that Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is staying in her job? We were in Ottawa last week during the bye-election in Ottawa-Vanier. It was no surprise that the…
I must say I really enjoyed what happened to Mike Pence, the sinister man from GLAD or MAGA, when went to the theatre the other night to take in a…
Pity Russell Wangersky. Somebody is telling Russell he is part of the elite and Russell doesn’t like it. Not me, writes Russell, in one of his columns last week. No…
PHOTOS: The Calgary Herald newsroom, back in the day. (Photo grabbed from Facebook, of course.) It’s quieter, nowadays. Below: Brodie Fenlon, managing editor of CBCNews.ca, and Gillian Steward, former managing…