Playing The Victim
The present crop of conservatives are a strange lot. They are, Scott Reid writes, nothing like their predecessors: Conservatives used to campaign on rugged individualism and the projection of strength.…
2016
Serious question
Society has become more understanding of mental illness. But what if the mentally ill person is about to become #POTUS? What then? — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 29, 2016
Donald Trump’s Latest Scary Twitter Meltdown
For a moment, a very brief moment, I thought that Kellyanne Conway might be able to teach Donald Trump how to pretend to be a president. Or at least behave…
Lord Black lauds buddy Trump.
You get the feeling that there could be another boring book by Lord ‘Cross-the-Pond’ in this. Yes, Conrad Black came out of seclusion on his Toronto estate the other day…
Waiting for Fidel #nlpoli #cdnpoli
From the National Film Board: “This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro’s Cuba. A movie-making threesome hope that Fidel himself will star in their film. The unusual…
White- and Male-Dominated History Perpetuates White, Male Supremacy
If, like me, you don’t recognize these women as household names, you are likely a victim of history education that focuses on males and white people. And while you are…
Backstory to purloined party list whodunit hints Wildrose civil war may be brewing
PHOTOS: Veterans of the Wildrose Caucus civil wars get together in 2046 to compare their experiences. Actual aged Wildrose MLAs are unlikely to appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Wildrose Leader…
Does Robert F. Kennedy Have Justin Trudeau’s Number?
Kennedy explains what’s really behind the petro-states’ pipeline fetish.
This week’s column: God save Justin Trudeau
Grateful, relieved, happy. That’s what not a few of us felt when Donald Trump “won.” (I put “won” in flying quotes because, as various experts have now noted, there’s an…
NDP Bill aims to take Big Money out of Alberta politics
The Alberta NDP are pushing forward with their plans to reform Alberta’s outdated election finance laws. Labour Minister Christina Gray, who also serves as Minister Responsible for Democratic Renewal, introduced…
MRIs: The New Provincial – Federal Grudge Match
SOURCE: CBC News – No Plans to End Private MRIs, Says Sask. Health Minister to Federal Concerns While there’s some interesting things happening with the GTH as of this morning…
MRIs: The New Provincial – Federal Grudge Match
SOURCE: CBC News – No Plans to End Private MRIs, Says Sask. Health Minister to Federal Concerns While there’s some interesting things happening with the GTH as of this morning…
Great, Just Great. Watch Trump Jump All Over This.
The man who injured 11 people at Ohio State was a refugee from Somalia. Abdul Razak Ali Artan, 18, rammed his car into a group of pedestrians at the college…
The Thing Is, We Don’t Know.
We don’t know what it means when, for the second consecutive year, the Arctic is experiencing a dark winter heatwave. In the pitch black, what should be the coldest time…
Pitting “identity politics” against class struggle is backwards, and the path to self-defeat
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that one of the first things America’s political left would do during the 2016 election post-mortem is to attack minority groups like trans* people,…
Nov. 28: Castro and our contemptible news media.
Today’s irvinig press has a striking example of propaganda presented as news. ( That’s actually quite common in our news services.) This one is a story about Cuban exiles in…
A Surprisingly Simple Solution to Canada’s Stalled Energy Debate
If you feel exhausted by Canada’s fevered debates about oil pipelines, liquefied natural gas terminals, renewable energy projects and mines, there just might be relief in sight. Right now, the…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Miles Corak asks how we should see the growing concentration of income at the top of the spectrum, and concludes that we should…
More Discrimination Thanks To Trump
I see reports and videos daily about the actions taken by the unhinged right-wing, the bigoted and the morally diseased. Most I choose not to include on my blog, but…
Jason Kenney has a Richard Nixon-shaped hole in his campaign
Man, what the fuck is going on in Alberta? In an email to supporters sent late Sunday with the bland subject line, “A Wildrose Update,” Opposition Leader Brian Jean drops…