My Favourite Films of 2016
Scene from ‘Moonlight’, my favourite of 2016 UPDATED JAN 15, 2017 I love films. I even produced my first short film this year as a director/writer/producer/editor called Tri-Curious (it’ll be…
Scene from ‘Moonlight’, my favourite of 2016 UPDATED JAN 15, 2017 I love films. I even produced my first short film this year as a director/writer/producer/editor called Tri-Curious (it’ll be…
Scene from ‘Moonlight’, my favourite of 2016 I love films. I even produced my first short film this year as a director/writer/producer/editor called Tri-Curious (it’ll be on YouTube by February…
It wasn’t all bad. Daisy celebrated ten years with amazing clients and colleagues, I got a big new book deal, SFH was back with a new record on the way,…
Billionaire George Soros isn’t mincing his words: ‘Democracy is now in crisis. Even the U.S., the world’s leading democracy, elected a con artist and would-be dictator as its president.’ The…
I knew all along that no good would come from promiscuously allowing them into the E.U. and then NATO. 2016 has shown the price to be paid. Like the rise…
Fareed Zakaria takes to the pages of the Washington Post to lament the passing of liberal democracy – and liberty – in his adopted homeland, the United States. Two decades…
The election of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named south of the border is leaving many Canadians with a case of the climate doldrums as 2016 winds to a close — but here’s the thing:…
Think of the vast northern permafrost as compost only waiting a thaw to decompose. Well, it’s thawing now and it’s doing what compost does – releasing carbon dioxide and methane…
Recently I’ve been thinking that I’d like to begin a mini-series of posts about caregiving for loved ones who have a rare disease. If YOU are a caregiver of someone…
China is about to usher in the Year of the Rooster. That led one thoughtful Chinese sculptor to come up with this:
When US secretary of state, John Kerry, proclaimed that Israel had to choose – it could be a Jewish state or a democracy, just not both, Washington’s abrupt epiphany must…
Although it wasn't a very big story, and most Canadians didn't pay it much attention, the Con leadership race was one of the recurring horror stories of 2016.A real zombie…
Recently I’ve been thinking that I’d like to begin a mini-series of posts about caregiving for loved ones who have a rare disease. If YOU are a caregiver of someone…
We live in an age where the rich get to buy their way to the front of the line. And, Linda McQuaig writes, they are pushing to have that privilege…
Assorted content to end your week. – Sam Gindin discusses the future of labour organizing in the course of reviewing Jane McAlevey’s No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New…
There are people in British Columbia ready and willing to go to jail in their fight against twining the Kinder Morgan pipeline to Burnaby, B.C. It is an abomination that…
1. Brand Command by Alex Marland. The book that political marketing and communications academics will be quoting for a while to come. 2. Observing the outports by Jeff Webb. An…
These are the posts you read the most of all. 01. Balls digs himself deeper into hole – May 2016 and yet another twist in the tale of Ed Martin’s…
PHOTOS: A couple of Russian “intelligence operatives” pensively contemplate the news they’re about to be kicked out of the United States for acting like journalists. Actual GRU deep cover agents…
Two weeks after promising to respond “at a time and place of our choosing” to Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats.…