Guilty Manhattan liberals self-flagellate: stop the presses. Literally.
Well, they may feel compelled to g-drop and rationalize bigotry on a massive scale, but I sure don’t. Racism is racism, whether it emanates from a ballot box or the…
November 2016
Sadly, I Am Inclined To Agree With Sir David Attenborough
His logic seems impeccable: Or, to put it another way: Recommend this Post
The Supermoon and the Return of Bernie Sanders
I can hardly wait to row out to a dark place on the lake tomorrow night, to watch the supermoon rising.For at a time when the darkness of fascism is…
Watching Justin suck and blow again.
One of our favourite progressive bloggers is on the West Coast and he likes to refer to Prime Minister Trudeau as ‘le Dauphin.’ He actually wrote that the Dauphin’s announcement…
Sexual Touching Requires True Consent
One important component of sexual assault law is consent. Any sexual touching requires that both parties give their consent or voluntarily agree. It can only be given by the persons…
Transactional Not Transformational
When he assumed office, Stephen Harper boasted that we wouldn’t recognize Canada when he was through with it. But Jennifer Ditchburn and Graham Fox argue in the final chapter of…
I’ll just leave this here for the Trumpkins
Thanks The Recovering Conservative for bringing this to my attention. -Shiv
More Bernard-trutherism: An update on Alberta’s (now ex) Roughneck
PHOTOS: Bernard the (now-ex) Roughneck enjoys some of the acclaim that goes with his newfound prominence here in Wild Rose Country. Photo grabbed from Facebook. Below: Neal Hancock as Bernard…
Remembering Leonard Cohen
Stopped in at Parc du Portugal today where people were paying their last respects and remembering Leonard Cohen who lived off this little square just off The Main. Lots of…
Peter Thiel goes ‘big league’, joining Trump’s presidential transition team (repost)
The PayPal founder’s support for Donald Trump made him an outlier in liberal Silicon Valley. What do we know about this controversial billionaire? Controversial Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel will…
No One is Coming to Save Us (repost)
The surprise victory of Donald Trump this past Tuesday has quickly presented people in this country (and around the world) with a vastly different political landscape than we had expected.…
OPINION Christy Clark Just Got Laughed Out of the Supreme Court of Canada
Crawford Killan’s ‘Opinion Piece’-Originally posted on the Tyee. Coming two grim days after the U.S. presidential election, Thursday’s judgment by the Supreme Court of Canada was exhilarating: B.C. teachers had…
“For the Love of Palestine:” New booklet highlights stories of Palestinian women prisoners
Members of the Prison, Labor and Academic Delegation to Palestine, working with The Freedom Archives, have developed and released a new booklet focusing on the struggle of Palestinian women prisoners.…
Complaint vs. Ontario judge who celebrated Trump victory from the bench
On Friday, The Globe and Mail and The Hamilton Spectator reported that Ontario Justice Bernd Zabel wore and then prominently displayed a pro-Donald Trump baseball cap in his Hamilton, Ontario,…
That Kellie Leitch: She Never Exceeds Expectations
I think the following video explains it all: Recommend this Post
Trudeau, like Obama is an enthusiastic supporter of the TPP
In Canada, Trudeau, like Obama is an enthusiastic and obedient supporter of the TPP and catering to the fossil fuel forces. Trudeau also embraced Obama’s military adventurism committing Canadian troops…
The Democrats Turned Their Backs On Their Traditional Base-Many Of Whom Voted for Trump.
The numbness is beginning to wear off following the strangest election campaign in modern history. I do not choose to write off all Trump voters as misogynists, racists, and the…
Complaint vs. Ontario judge who celebrated Trump victory from the bench
On Friday, The Globe and Mail and The Hamilton Spectator reported that Ontario Justice Bernd Zabel wore and then prominently displayed a pro-Donald Trump baseball cap in his Hamilton, Ontario,…
Disillusioned by Leadership, Many Union Rank-and-File Turned to Trump
Photo by Darron Birgenheier PAUL JAY, TRNN: Welcome to the Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Baltimore. In the aftermath of the Trump victory, a lot of people are…
Voters Just Delivered a Mandate to a Pack of Absolute Fiends and Monsters
Photo by Gage Skidmore ‘The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters’, Antonio Gramsci. Donald J. Trump, the outsider…