The Reforming Senate
If Meech Lake had passed, the Senate would have been reformed. Ken Whyte writes that Peter Lougheed understood just how radically the Red Chamber would have been transformed: Mr. Lougheed…
November 2016
The game’s afoot: Jason Kenney buses unfamiliar faces in camo caps to Tory youth meeting at Red Deer PC convention
PHOTOS: Candidates for the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership in Red Deer, from left to right, Stephen Khan, Jason Kenney, Byron Nelson, Richard Starke, Sandra Jansen and Donna Kennedy-Glans (photo by…
Economic woes create anti-establishment movements around the world | Business | The Guardian
In some western countries frustration with the status quo is boosting populist and rightwing political parties Source: Economic woes create anti-establishment movements around the world | Business | The Guardian…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Neil Irwin examines one of the key ideas underlying the U.S. Democrats’ economic plans, being that workers need to have meaningful choices rather…
Tesla CEO-Elon Musk thinks we need a ‘popular uprising’ against the fossil fuel industry-VIDEO
Revolutions are not usually called for or supported by billionaires. This is especially the case when the proposed fossil fuel industry is the target. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is causing…
Cornel West Nails America’s Electoral Catastrophe
The headline in the Boston Globe says it all: “Spiritual Blackout in America: Election 2016.“ THE MOST FRIGHTENING feature of the civic melancholia in present-day America is the relative collapse…
Heads Up, Gullibillies. Trump Is No Revolutionary, No Messiah, No Saviour.
Trump supporters share one thing – a belief that their guy will bring revolutionary change to the United States, its government and its economy. That’s a religious-grade belief of the…
Nov.5: Ask not for whom the bell tolls…
The problem is not Trump. And it’s not Clinton. The problem is much worse because it’s a permanent one. The problem is the final crash of American society and morality.…
Show Us It Floats.
Most British Columbians expect the Trudeau government will throw its environmental credibility down the toilet and approve the Kinder Morgan pipeline intended to carry some 890,000 barrels of dilbit each…
On Character
Now that I’ve sufficiently survived surgery physically, the psychological stuff is creeping in. Creeping is apropos. People keep telling me I’m so brave or so strong to go through it…
Alberta Politics By The Numbers on November 5, 2016
Total number of MLAs: 87 Number of Government MLAs: 54 Number of Opposition MLAs: 33 Number of former government MLAs now sitting in the opposition caucus: 7 Number of former…
The Ethics of Wikileaks
Wikileaks, and other information repositories like it, raises some interesting ethical problems. To date, Wikileaks has pretty much taken a wholesale approach to the information that comes its way –…
The Ethics of Wikileaks
Wikileaks, and other information repositories like it, raises some interesting ethical problems. To date, Wikileaks has pretty much taken a wholesale approach to the information that comes its way –…
Cultural appropriation is a toxic concept. (repost)
If the title of my article alone makes you wanna write me off right off the bat, and makes you decide not to read my article then that is your…
Burning Down The Island
Andrew Coyne writes that probably Donald Trump will not be elected president. That does not mean, however, that the result will be salutary: The damage he has done just by…
Saturday Photo: Klimt Weather
Didn’t have a camera with me, so you’ll have to believe me: yesterday was a marvelous Klimt-coloured afternoon. Looking up de Maisonneuve toward the Quartier de Spéctacles, the trees on…
Saturday Photo: Klimt Weather
Didn’t have a camera with me, so you’ll have to believe me: yesterday was a marvelous Klimt-coloured afternoon. Looking up de Maisonneuve toward the Quartier de Spéctacles, the trees on…
Donald Trump and the Demonic Song of the Religious Right
Despite Donald Trump's abominable record of spiritual and fleshy corruption, the religious right in the U.S. still worships at his feet.And are willing to forgive him his trespasses, in return…
Hillary Clinton, James Comey and the FBI Coup D’Etat
If Hillary Clinton loses the election to Donald Trump, it will be largely due to the FBI director James Comey's decision to inform Congress that another batch of Clinton's e-mails…
Those who forget the past…
Those who forget the past are going to screw up our future. Those are not the exact words of the old cliché but they certainly fit. This occurred to us…