Screw the police after this week’s abysmal behaviour
I’ve tried to be a moderate person in my writings here and elsewhere, trying to respect both progressive and conservative sides of the political divide, while staying true to my…
January 2017
This First Nation Just Banned Industrial Logging and Mining from Vancouver Island Territory
Connection to the land and ocean has guided the Ahousaht people throughout their history and that bond is now at the root of a new sustainable economic development plan for…
Holocaust remembrance day
Is today. And, today – more than on many other such days – remember that the Shoah began with hateful words, first. And then – as now – too many…
Food for Revolutionary Thought
For those of us long enough in the tooth to recall what it was like ‘way back when’, there is sometimes a distinct whiff of something like the old sectarianism…
Astrophotography Is The Best
You're looking at a video of FOUR directly-imaged exoplanets orbiting a star. You're looking at another solar system in motion pic.twitter.com/3jW8iO5oz1 — Jennifer Harrison (@GeneticJen) January 27, 2017 Jupiter is…
Big European business hearts Antonio Tajani – POLITICO
http://www.politico.eu/article/industries-cheer-tajanis-appointment-as-parliament-president/ Filed under: Uncategorized
Wherein Gary Mason writes the column I wrote, but gets to publish it before I got to publish
Here. There is an enormous danger associated with this strategy. By remaining mum, Mr. Trudeau and his global counterparts are normalizing this man’s behaviour. Mr. Trump is a classic bully,…
O’Leary — Again
Kevin O’Leary and Arlene Dickinson are having a public disagreement. He wants to be prime minister. She doesn’t think it’s a good idea. And she pulls no punches: My first…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – The Canadian Labour Congress offers its suggestions as to how international trade agreements can be reworked to ensure a more fair global economy.…
The proud pomposity of the Toronto Star.
There are few things funnier than a Toronto Star editorial that lambastes the Ontario government for all the wrong reasons. And nothing deflates the pomposity better than getting their facts…
A Very Timely Reminder
In 1984, the Enemy of the State was the elusive Emmanuel Goldstein, likely a contrived figure upon whom the masses could hurl their hatred, while Big Brother, the real enemy,…
Stephen Harper and the Sad State of the Con Leadership Race
It's still his party. He created it in his own image. Those who survived the Great Humiliation are still trying to keep his monstrous legacy alive. But Stephen Harper these…
Feehan, electricity prices, and the bigger problem. #nlpoli
Jim Feehan’s proposal to change the way we price electricity in the province got some media attention -over the past 24 hours. Feehan believes that we should set the base…
Progressive Conservative leadership campaign rattles uncomfortably toward a seemingly inevitable Jason Kenney victory
PHOTOS: Surprise! I don’t have a unite-the-right plan after all, but I’ll quit if you’ll let me run to lead the new party. Wildrose Leader Brian Jean, presumably, was thinking…
New Alberta Politics Podcast: The Broadcast
Edmonton-based journalists Trisha Estabrooks and Alex Zabjek have launched a new podcast focusing on women and Alberta politics. The Broadcast website describes the inspiration for the podcast: We started this…
Canadian newspaper industry advances on Ottawa, hands out, awash in red ink and democratic platitudes
PHOTOS: Stop the presses! … I mean the losses! Put me through to the red ink department … I mean the tax department … Actual Canadian newspaper owners may not…
Today’s Edition of The Fight on the Right
Starke vs. Kenney: the lightweight match Starting the day off, Richard Starke, the soft-spoken veternarian from Lloydminster entered the ring with his “Common Sense Plan” to save the Progressive Conservative…
Third Coast Pillory: Mexico, Neo-Nationalism and the Capitalist World-System
Photo by Ms. Phoenix Mexico is dependent on the United States, as it is dependent on the global economy more generally. Neoliberal development scholars led them down the “global value…
Liberal pals plundering BC Hydro for tens of Billions
By Norm Farrell Until the mid-twentieth century, much of British Columbia lacked reliable and affordable electricity. To resolve the privation, W.A.C. Bennett created BC Hydro, a publicly owned utility. The…
Reopen Bethlehem!
Open Bethlehem Leila Sansour Iambic Dream, 2015 He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’ Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion…