Of Sound in Mounds and Walking Evil
I’ve been doing this over a decade now so I should maybe explain the Mound of Sound business and my tenuous connection with evil. In a previous life I indulged…
February 2017
This week’s column:
“He’s doing what he said he was going to do. Let them protest.” The unlikely scene: a drinking establishment somewhere in the Dominican Republic. Two American men are perched on…
Alberta public employees, subject to constant Wildrose and media vilification, win national award for effective service
PHOTOS: An image of the May 2016 Fort McMurray fire taken by Alberta Government photographer Chris Schwarz. Below: The Wildrose Party sees government workers like forest fire fighters (GoA photo)…
Trump should be barred from entering Canada for promoting hate propaganda, says petition
A petition spreading like wildfire online demands that U.S. President Donald Trump be barred from entering Canada because his policies and actions promote hate propaganda. The post Trump should be…
Has Donald Trump Already Managed to Break the United States? Is War Next?
Two important essays in Foreign Policy. Harvard professor, Stephen Walt, writes that Trump has already ruined America’s foreign policy at home and abroad, with allies and adversaries alike. He has…
Leading Candidate for French President Hit By Scandal
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:18285:Leading-Candidate-for-French-President-Hit-By-Scandal Filed under: Uncategorized
Electoral reform and Trudeau’s shameful flight: The fight continues
The next election in 2019 will be very different from the last one. The Trudeau Liberals took just over one year to walk away from their core campaign promise to…
Electoral reform and Trudeau’s shameful flight: The fight continues
The next election in 2019 will be very different from the last one. The Trudeau Liberals took just over one year to walk away from their core campaign promise to…
Racism is a Mental Health Disorder?
Yes? No? What do you think? This may help, and this:
Helpful Gladue sentencing case
R. v. Mikijuk, 2017 NUCJ 02: One of these important cases is called the Queen v. Gladue . It is called that because in Canada all criminal prosecutions are done…
Helpful Gladue sentencing case
R. v. Mikijuk, 2017 NUCJ 02: One of these important cases is called the Queen v. Gladue . It is called that because in Canada all criminal prosecutions are done…
Debate immigration? Sure. But with facts, and fairness.
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Helpful Gladue sentencing case
R. v. Mikijuk, 2017 NUCJ 02: One of these important cases is called the Queen v. Gladue . It is called that because in Canada all criminal prosecutions are done…
Being sane matters, too
Idiotic. Appalling. 'Black Lives Matter just called @justinTrudeau a white supremacist' #cdnpoli https://t.co/RPKTrZIjIy — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 6, 2017
Is America Being Primed for a New Civil War?
On the right and the left in America there’s talk of unrest, revolt, perhaps a new civil war or maybe just picking up the last one where it left off.…
Adding Insult to Injury
Trust Fareed Zakaria to remind us that Trump’s loyal “Deplorables” are the same folks who gorge on the slops from the government trough. At this point, one could note that,…
Is the Great American Heist, Part Deux, Coming Soon?
The planets are aligning nicely. Republican House, check. Republican Senate, check. Republican White House, check. It was this very alignment that prevailed during the Panic of 1907, the Great Depression…
Reading Moby Dick
Recently, coincidental to while I was reading Herman Melville’s classic novel, I read a story that some folks in Vancouver took offence to the name of a restaurant: Moby Dick’s…
What’s the Matter with America?
Photo by Seth Anderson Thomas Frank is the founder of The Baffler magazine, author of What’s the Matter With Kansas? and Listen Liberal, and past columnist for The Wall Street…
‘There is no Alternative Unless We Build One’
Photo by Roger Blackwell The varied left histories dating back to the long 19th century gained momentum during the tumultuous first decades of the 20th century and for some time…