PEI leads the way in remedying our democratic deficit!
Way to go PEI! Voters strike a blow for a better democracy; our federal government and other provinces should pay heed: A non-binding plebiscite on electoral reform in Prince Edward…
November 2016
What Do We Have to Lose? Everything.
In the United States of America it is election day. Some say this is the most important election ever. Some always say that. But today’s election is different. It has…
The Biology of Story: hope, fear and the best political stories
I participated in this documentary quite some time ago, and then (to be honest) sort of forgot about it. I was only reminded of my participation, this morning, when the…
NetFlix It Is Then
It feels a bit like that day when a municipal garbage strike ends. There’s a sense of relief when crews hit the streets but there’s no joy in it. You…
Meanwhile, In Households Across America, This –
Well, in white households, that is.
Kinsella vs. Ford on CITY-TV!
If you’re a regular on Canada’s Best-Loved Political Website™ – and you of course are – you’re a hack, and you’ll probably be running standard deviation models on your VEP…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Karen Foster and Tamara Krawchenko discuss how policy can – and should – be designed to improve intergenerational equity: Canada trails far…
Stein Lillevolden Reviews Det Globale Perspektiv
A book review of Torkil Lauesen 380 pages Nemo Publishing, Copenhagen 2016 by Stein Lillevolden (social worker) First posted at: https://radikalportal.no/2016/05/27/det-ulike-bytte/ Also published in the Danish newsletter Demos In the…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday November 8, 2016. Today we are talking about Employment Law. A video posted by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Nov…
The U.S. Election: Between the Light and the Darkness
As I wrote in my last post, the Day of Judgement has finally arrived. The day when our neighbours decide what kind of country they want to live in. The…
On Today’s Menu
Even though I will be riveted to the television tonight watching the U.S. election results, I have had more than enough American political coverage, having just returned from Cleveland, where…
There Are Better Prescriptions
Transport Minister Marc Garneau announced last week that the government was changing the rules regarding foreign ownership of Canadian airlines. The goal is to lower air fares so Canadians can…
On the Nature of Gifts and Help
Being helped so much by so many has led me to thinking about the idea of help and of gifts and Derrida’s idea that gifts are impossible in that, in…
It is Premier Wynne who should resign.
Anyone with an understanding of the political situation at Queen’s Park must know that the chances of anyone being convicted over the possible bribery in the Sudbury bye-election is unlikely.…
Slavoj Zizeck on the Ethics of Consumption
Slavoj Zizeck is a modern thinker that has done a great job of critiquing the overarching assumptions in our society when it comes to power dynamics and the insidiousness of…
An election that Rod Serling would be frightened by…
Seriously. This past year or so has been something out of the Twilight Zone. So surreal and way beyond the bounds of imagination. So today is the day, my dear…
Donald Trump and the Death of the Republican Party
The day has finally arrived. The nightmarish U.S. election campaign is finally over. Americans are voting at last.While we wait to see whether the day will bring joy or an…
Apparitions #nlpoli
You can go back to September 2006 and find one of the earliest references at SRBP to the impact the aging, shifting population would have on Newfoundland and Labrador. The…
Wildrose whip condemns racist imagery after the fact? That dog won’t hunt! Jason Nixon should have walked away
PHOTOS: A shot from the Twittersphere of Saturday’s anti-carbon-tax protest in Red Deer (grabbed from @IamBunbury). Below: A close-up from the photo of a person who appears to be Jason…
Monday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Brent Patterson criticizes the Libs’ short-sighted plans to privatize public services in lieu of any coherent economic policy. And Tom Parkin calls out…