Neoliberalism Out, Neofascism In?
Cornel West says America is in for a makeover, Trump style. White working- and middle-class fellow citizens – out of anger and anguish – rejected the economic neglect of neoliberal…
November 2016
Look Justin, Cut the Bullshit
Today’s the day when we learn whether the federal government will put our north coast in jeopardy or merely threaten our south coast with disaster. Which pipeline will Trudeau approve?…
It’s Time for the Economy to Shrink
money With the frequent boom and bust cycles the economy goes through it is rare for people to argue that perhaps the downward portion of cycles should continue. Shrinking the…
Maybe Hillary’s Not So Bad After All.
Hubba, Hubba Hillary Clinton’s email scandal cost her heavily in the last election. Trump never went to a rally without feeding the Gullibillies the promise that he would see her…
The Fight Must Continue
Because I am quite a private person, I rarely discuss anything personal on my blog. But I will, to a small extent, break that general rule today to convey something…
Enforceability of Employment Agreements: Termination Clauses in Ontario
BY SIMRAN BAKSHI, ASSOCIATE LAWYER In the excitement of finding a new job, it can be tempting to overlook the importance of the termination provisions that might be included in…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday November 29, 2016. Today we are talking about Employment Law. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Nov…
fidel castro, 1926-2016
More than any ruler I can think of, Fidel Castro defies our insistence on seeing leaders as solely either good or evil. As this excellent assessment in Social Worker (UK)…
Castro and Us
All of leftbook seems to have been posting about Cuba and Castro, and in a really weird way this has served as a pretext for rehashing all kinds of 20th…
World AIDS Day 2016
The blank page stares up at me, “World AIDS Day 2016”. That will be Thursday. It’s not like it used to be when life was much more urgent, desperate. I…
Donald über Alles: Trump Virus spreads in Toronto
From InFocus at York University: Neo Nazi Publication “Your Ward News” appears at York University; Administration Promises Action Students from the Israeli Students Association (ISA), a CAMERA-supported group, recently discovered…
Playing The Victim
The present crop of conservatives are a strange lot. They are, Scott Reid writes, nothing like their predecessors: Conservatives used to campaign on rugged individualism and the projection of strength.…
Serious question
Society has become more understanding of mental illness. But what if the mentally ill person is about to become #POTUS? What then? — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 29, 2016
Donald Trump’s Latest Scary Twitter Meltdown
For a moment, a very brief moment, I thought that Kellyanne Conway might be able to teach Donald Trump how to pretend to be a president. Or at least behave…
Lord Black lauds buddy Trump.
You get the feeling that there could be another boring book by Lord ‘Cross-the-Pond’ in this. Yes, Conrad Black came out of seclusion on his Toronto estate the other day…
Waiting for Fidel #nlpoli #cdnpoli
From the National Film Board: “This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro’s Cuba. A movie-making threesome hope that Fidel himself will star in their film. The unusual…
White- and Male-Dominated History Perpetuates White, Male Supremacy
If, like me, you don’t recognize these women as household names, you are likely a victim of history education that focuses on males and white people. And while you are…
Backstory to purloined party list whodunit hints Wildrose civil war may be brewing
PHOTOS: Veterans of the Wildrose Caucus civil wars get together in 2046 to compare their experiences. Actual aged Wildrose MLAs are unlikely to appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Wildrose Leader…
Does Robert F. Kennedy Have Justin Trudeau’s Number?
Kennedy explains what’s really behind the petro-states’ pipeline fetish.
This week’s column: God save Justin Trudeau
Grateful, relieved, happy. That’s what not a few of us felt when Donald Trump “won.” (I put “won” in flying quotes because, as various experts have now noted, there’s an…