Stand With Standing Rock – Montreal
Got down late and they had already started marching but I caught up with them on Saint Antoine as they were turning up Saint Alexandre. Going to quote from the…
November 2016
Watch the US Presidential Election results on the big screen at the Garneau Theatre
Still deciding where to watch the results of the United States Presidential election roll in tomorrow night? If you are in Edmonton, come over the the Garneau Theatre and watch…
Not Quite Off the Hook But Getting Closer.
Okay, so we in the industrialized nations of the northern hemisphere, are the heavy emitters of bad stuff that gets pumped into the atmosphere – CO2, methane, ozone and such.…
Will the US slip into Fascism?
Well, we survived another long American political campaign and tomorrow it will (we hope) all be over. I believe it is pretty simple, people who are voting for Trump are…
Will the US slip into Fascism?
Well, we survived another long American political campaign and tomorrow it will (we hope) all be over. I believe it is pretty simple, people who are voting for Trump are…
Politics and Theatre
Adam Schiff is a United States congressman representing the 29th district in California. He’s a Democrat. His fictional namesake was the Manhattan district attorney in the original series Law &…
Money + Politics = Support for Democracy
At least that’s what finance minister, Bill Morneau, says whether he believes it or not. Finance Minister Bill Morneau is continuing to defend his fundraising activities, arguing that people who…
Encouraging Noises from the Dauphin
He’s saying some of the right things. It’s a start. Prime minister Trudeau has announced a 5-year, 1.5 billion dollar programme to upgrade responses to tanker and oil spills on…
Trudeau’s economic model is clear and it is not good
Last week gave us a good idea of the economic model that Trudeau’s Liberals are gradually putting forward and it is business-friendly to the core. The infrastructure bank privatization scheme…
Will the US slip into Fascism?
Well, we survived another long American political campaign and tomorrow it will (we hope) all be over. I believe it is pretty simple, people who are voting for Trump are…
Straws in the wind… say Hillary will win
The U.S. election is tomorrow. While most of us who are compulsively interested in the subject (and hope Trump loses) are carefully watching the forecasting sites such as 538, there…
Action vs. Action Plans #GivePollutionAChance
The Liberals would like to tell you that they’ve spent a year making Real Change (TM) in Canada, since being elected in October, 2015. Undeniably, Canada has some notable differences…
Syria and the Antiwar Tradition
Photo by Alisdare Hickson There is major disorientation on the left in many Western countries when it comes to Syria and about how antiwar activists should respond to events on…
Your afternoon #USpoli #USelection numbers
HRC’s lead is growing! Woot! From Jeff, natch: POLLS 11/7 4PM ■MON C+6 ■SM C+6 ■NOL C+5 ■FOX C+4 ■CBS C+4 ■NBC: C+4 ■ABC C+4 ■MC C+3 ■ANR C+4 ■RAND…
Straws in the wind… say Hilary will win
The U.S. election is tomorrow. While most of us who are compulsively interested in the subject (and hope Trump loses) are carefully watching the forecasting sites such as 538, there…
Nov. 7: A slow day.
If patriotism were used to do what is best for our country, it would be admirable. But that almost never happens. Instead, patriotism is manipulated to justify the killing and…
The Liberal Order’s Obituary
Is the liberalism we have known all our lives a thing of the past? Have we entered a post-liberal era? John Gray, writing in The New Statesman, suggests as much…
Alberta’s Carbon Tax Doesn’t Equal ‘Social Licence’ for New Pipelines, Critics Say
Implement an economy-wide carbon tax, attain “social licence,” score a federal approval for the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline. That’s been the advertised logic of the Alberta NDP since the…
Alberta’s Carbon Tax Doesn’t Equal ‘Social Licence’ for New Pipelines, Critics Say
Implement an economy-wide carbon tax, attain “social licence,” score a federal approval for the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline. That’s been the advertised logic of the Alberta NDP since the…
The View from Germany. Drumpf Is For Losers.
The message from the photo in Der Spiegel couldn’t be any clearer. In Donald Trump’s America even the flag is in for a grope. They find that Trump is the…