As Tensions Rise Between Greece and its Creditors, Is Grexit Back on the Table?
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February 2017
Logging Crew Mobilizes Near ‘Irreplaceable’ Wetland, Slated for Site C Flooding
A “landmark” wetland and birding hotspot in the Peace River Valley is slated to be destroyed by the Site C dam, after the B.C. government preserved it as a model…
My Lord, I love Turnstile
I’m going to quit everything and go tour with these kids. Don’t tell Lisa.
The Value of the Budweiser Boycott
Budweiser has been so coy pretending their Super Bowl pro-immigration ad wasn’t political. Of course it was. Own it. But as people boycott something with the alternate spelling , we…
Castigating Trump for Truth-Telling
Photo by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff President Trump says much that is untrue, but he draws some of Official Washington’s greatest opprobrium when he speaks the truth,…
Electoral reform: Good for the NDP in our Parliament!
The NDP is giving voice to the outrage of hundreds of thousands of Canadians by tabling a censure motion in the House: The New Democrats have officially served notice that…
The Dismal Cartography of the Pre-Fascist State
Photo by Alisdare Hickson Points of Departure Listening to Donald Trump’s inaugural speech on January 20th led me to muse about what it might mean to live in a pre-fascist…
Hey, Donald? You want access to what I say?
Apparently: People who want to visit the United States could be asked to hand over their social-media passwords to officials as part of enhanced security checks, the country’s top domestic…
Electoral reform: Good for the NDP in our Parliament!
The NDP is giving voice to the outrage of hundreds of thousands of Canadians by tabling a censure motion in the House: The New Democrats have officially served notice that…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Louis-Philippe Rochon writes that while American voters had to know what they’d get in casting their most recent ballots, far too many Canadians…
Why should I settle?
Suppose you lent money to someone for an investment. It was money that you had saved up over the years and you expected to have a decent rate of return…
Why should I settle?
Suppose you lent money to someone for an investment. It was money that you had saved up over the years and you expected to have a decent rate of return…
Quote for our times
I marvel at the simple notion that we are now run by a gaggle of 70 year-olds that swear by deregulation and dog-eat-dog capitalism but they live in gated communities…
Detroit’s Farms May Save the City
Detroit is a city that has been witnessing a lot of change thanks to poor urban planning and bad economics. The past decade has been very rough for the people…
Why should I settle?
Suppose you lent money to someone for an investment. It was money that you had saved up over the years and you expected to have a decent rate of return…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday February 8, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. For more information on employment law, family law, and wills,…
My morning love letter to the Unpresident
.@realDonaldTrump: better put your wall in the sea, too. Good luck. Also: 45% of Mexican migrants arrive in US by air, you witless moron. pic.twitter.com/iT7xyWttgA — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February…
Another Global Recession?
North American stock markets are booming. The conventional wisdom is that — economically — happy days are here again. But Joseph Ingram isn’t so optimistic. The election of Donald Trump…
Great White North
…which is the working title of my next book, by the by. Anyway. To get your morning off on a thoroughly depressing note, read this: Almost a third of Canadians…
Some Uncomfortable Lessons that Progressives Can Learn From Steve Bannon: A Canadian Green’s Perspective
In an effort to understand the apparent anarchy that’s seized the White House since Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20th, the U.S. news media has been devoting a lot of…