What’s left of neoliberal globalization?
Photo by Josh Edelson/Getty From a Canadian vantage point, it is easy to lose track of the sheer volume of discontent, if not outright resistance, around the world to the…
2016
The Canada Infrastructure Bank: Theft by Deception
Photo by Eduardo Lima/AP Both the Liberal government and its Advisory Council on Economic Growth are head-over-heels for the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB), announcing with fresh-faced enthusiasm that it will…
An appeal to Green Party of Canada members
Illustration by Carlos Latuff As Israel’s illegal military occupation approaches a half-century, it’s long past time for concrete international action to pressure its government to reverse course. The Green Party…
Rafe Mair to Justin Trudeau: BC is not yours to give away
Photo by Province of British Columbia I’ll not waste too many words on Prime Minister Trudeau’s treachery. Of all the many political sins, surely the greatest of all is hypocrisy…
No, Brian: Elvis isn’t in the CBSP
At the Nov. 28 Council meeting (seen here on Rogers TV), Deputy Mayor Brian Saunderson blathered on in cliché-rich, lawerly manner (starting 1:14:05) about how much the Elvis Festival means…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Simon Enoch and Christine Saulnier examine how P3s are used to privilege corporate profits over the public interest: The CCPA has published…
Stuff Still Happens, week 48: Why we (sigh) need pipelines
This week, the Trudeau government approved two pipelines, and rejected one other. Trudeau is winning lavish praise for his bold, statesmanlike decision in some quarters, hyperbolic, end-of-the-world scorn from others.…
An Easy-To-Use Weapon Against Fake News
People of a certain ‘vintage’ will well remember the above commercial, in which a family appears to take great delight in fooling dad about the spread he is using. All…
Donald Trump and the Betrayal of the Working Class
I used to stare at those pictures of Donald Trump preaching to his white working class supporters, and wonder how that old con artist managed to fool so many of…
Electoral Reform Report Solves Nothing.
A special all-party committee is recommending that the Trudeau government design a new proportional voting system and hold a national referendum to gauge how much Canadians would support it. …………
A trumpeted win for Trump in Indiana?
You have never heard so much BS from so many supposedly knowledgeable writers. Why would anyone think that Donald Trump’s grandstanding in the Indianapolis Carrier plant was a win? It…
Electoral Reform Report Solves Nothing.
A special all-party committee is recommending that the Trudeau government design a new proportional voting system and hold a national referendum to gauge how much Canadians would support it. …………
Not With A Bang But A Whimper
It’s beginning to look like electoral reform is dead in the water. In the end, Chantal Hebert writes, our political parties could not rise above partisan self interest: The Conservatives…
Alt-right: more misogynistic than many neonazis (repost)
One of the major problems with the campaign to replace the term “alt-right” with “white supremacist” is that it tends to obscure other important dimensions of alt-right politics. The alt-right’s…
Saturday Afternoon #ERRE Links
A bit of electoral reform material for your weekend reading. – Nathan Cullen points out how the Special Committee on Electoral Reform’s report (PDF) serves as an effective road map…
The Trump era: Soldiers of Odin In Toronto
Neo-Nazis in Toronto. Queen East park, 2 pm. A bunch of them. Here we go.
PM Trudeau summed up by Chantal Hebert on electoral reform
Here’s the devastating article she wrote on how the Liberals, lead by Justin Trudeau, have mismanaged the election commitment to electoral reform: As for the Liberals, they have managed to…
Saturday Photo: Getting Ready for Christmas in Brazil
Another photo for three years ago: a cafe in Brasília which was all decked out in pointsettias and red ribbons for Christmas. We picked up our Christmas wreaths from Jeanne…
Eating up the Hill: Wicked Thai Style Soup with Chicken
Generally, I’m not a big soup guy. Usually I will take the salad over the soup in an appetizer scenario, but there are certain soups I am adding to my…
Dec 3: They said it! The U.S. runs dictatorships for mass murder
On it’s faith page, the irving press has the big story that it and other North American news media have never carried. It’s the story of the indiscriminate murder of…