Trump’s Reichstag Moment?
It’s not if, but what will be Trump’s Reichstag moment. Some kind of pretense to justify a tyrant’s suspension of civil liberties. Trump has already said he’d jail his political…
December 2016
Christmas Eve 2016 is Mom’s 95th – Here’s Her Present
My mother was born on Christmas Eve, 1921. Mom always said the timing of her birth was poor planning on her parents’ part because she never had a proper birthday…
Notes on Trump (Bromma Dec. 2016)
1. The normality of white supremacy Since Trump’s election, I keep hearing that we shouldn’t “normalize” him or his agenda. I believe that’s looking through the wrong end of the…
Christmas Eve 2016 is Mom’s 95th – Here’s Her Present
My mother was born on Christmas Eve, 1921. Mom always said the timing of her birth was poor planning on her parents’ part because she never had a proper birthday…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Murray Dobbin highlights how our political and economic discussions are poorer for the dominance of neoliberalism: That’s it? That’s the best the economics…
Donald Trump: still an asshole
And get this: the unpresident can’t spell “unprecedented.”
The Shape Of Things To Come?
The other day, I wrote a post about how NBC Nightly News was attacked by Donald Trump via his weapon of choice, Twitter, a perhaps apt mechanism given the president-elect’s…
It’s Gone Viral
They used to call economics the “dismal science.” Actually, it’s never been a science — despite recent attempts to make it so. However, in the last fifty years, the dismal…
Vancouver Sun Letter
For what is likely to be my last letter to the editor of 2016, see today’s Vancouver Sun (fourth letter from the top). The gist of my argument is that…
I lead a morally complex life
Ah, the wonders of a winter morn! The crest of snow! The hearth of fire! The merry children! The Swedish death metal! The Drano hot shots! — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren)…
Trying To Come To Terms With The Grim Year 2016
Like so many others I will always remember the year 2016 as an absolute nightmare, an annus horribilis if ever there was one.A year that began promisingly in the still…
Who chose who?
It is grating when we read about Ontario politics and a careless reporter refers to Patrick Brown as ‘winning’ the leadership of Ontario’s Conservatives. He hardly won it. It would…
The Great Betrayal, or just a great mistake? Today marks the second anniversary of the Wildrose Party’s mass defection
PHOTOS: Progressive Conservative premier Jim Prentice and Opposition leader turned PC MLA Danielle Smith pose awkwardly on Dec. 17, 2014, in what was supposed to be a political masterstroke, and…
Musical interlude
Erato – Now Go
A Symphony of Ice with Beaver Update
It was pretty cold out there today and a huge sheet of ice was breaking up and floating down the river when I got there. You can hear it as…
Dec. 16: Trump – Same Old Same Old.
Today’s irving press has an inspiring ‘Commentary’ from a propaganda house – Atlantic Institute of Market Studies. Just two days ago it had a major news story on the same…
Are politicians really standing up for our climate with the Pan-Canadian Framework?
Friday, December 16, 2016 The new Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change – and the games played by BC’s Premier Christy Clark during the process leading up to…
Apropos of nothing
I am resigning my family to spend more time with my politics. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) December 16, 2016
Tax reform for the Canadian Left: balancing ideology and efficiency
Photo from Public Domain In recent weeks, the debate about toll roads in the Greater Toronto Area has captured a good deal of attention among the broader Left. For some,…
Civil Contempt
Greenberg v. Nowack, 2016 ONCA 949: The test for civil contempt was articulated by the Supreme Court in Carey v. Laiken, 2015 SCC 17, 2 S.C.R. 79, at paras. 33-35:…