On pipelines to nowhere
I’ll be taking a look at the individual candidates in the NDP’s leadership race over the next little while. But before I start into that review, I’ll pause to discuss…
March 2017
Remember a simpler time…
… before the EPA
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 9: Jason does Alberta
As expected, Jason Kenney easily won the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta at a convention in Calgary on Saturday, with about 75% of the vote. Kenney was…
hail hail rock ‘n’ roll: rip chuck berry
To mark the death of rock legend Chuck Berry, everyone should watch “Hail Hail Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Taylor Hackford’s movie chronicling two concerts that celebrated Berry’s 60th birthday. If you…
150 Years of Marx’s Capital
Photo by Thierry Ehrmann This is a collection of videos dealing with Karl Marx’s Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. This playlist starts with an audio recording of Capital Volume…
Nazis, NATO, and Canada’s Latvian Love-in
Members of the 3rd Battalion of The Royal Canadian Regiment (3 RCR) fast rope down the Latvian search and rescue helicopter while the Latvian army observe • Photo by Canadian…
Thomas Homer-Dixon Looks at Trump – From Bones to Entrails
In today’s Globe and Mail, author, historian and professor, Thomas Homer-Dixon tries his hand at vivisecting the Cheeto Benito, Donald Trump, to see what may lie in store for America…
Watch to the end. It’s worth it.
#POTUS arrives in Florida. A crowd of enthusiastic Americans greet him! pic.twitter.com/qMFNsDBFYR — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 19, 2017
The inevitable concept solo album phase is upon us
SFH notwithstanding, I’m looking for GTA geriatric strings and skins punks for musical cooperation, and possible world domination. Fire off an email if intrigued.
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Heather Whiteside discusses how the privatization schemes being toyed with at all levels of government represent nothing more than reckless gambling with…
Why the Police Should Investigate The Con Leadership Race
The other day I warned that the Con leadership race was becoming more desperate and more porky by the day.With so many mediocre candidates, and no new ideas. And now…
The best column yet on the Unpresident
By Dowd, naturally: …we’ve never watched a president so hungrily devour his own presidency. Soon, there won’t be anything left except the sound of people snickering. Consumed by his paranoia…
Press Release: The United Theological College / Le Séminaire Uni, Montréal – Honours at Convocation 2017
The Senate and the community of the United Theological College are honoured to recognize the leadership and ministry of two colleagues at our Spring 2017 Convocation. At 2pm on…
More On The Rogue Senator And Moral Coward, Don Meredith
On Friday’s Power and Politics, host Rosemary Barton was her usual relentless self, evident in her sharp questioning of Selwyn Pieters, the attorney representing disgraced Senator Don Meredith, about whom…
On Beauty and the Beast
I saw the newest version of this classic, which was close to being very good. There were a few long boring bits, and the CGI of the beast was hard…
What will an Ontario pilot prove?
The possible acceptance of a pilot project in Ontario of the idea of government providing a basic guaranteed income to its citizens is long overdue. There have been previous pilots—opened…
what i’m reading: a mother’s reckoning by sue klebold
On April 20, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, two teenagers from Littleton, Colorado, marched into Columbine High School with explosives and automatic weapons. Their plan to blow up the…
Ezra Levant’s Grotesque International Embarrassment
For years Ezra Levant has disgraced himself, and disgusted decent people all over Canada, with his ugly professional bigotry, and his total lack of class.Or the way he begs for…
The Disappearing President
Maureen Dowd’s analyses of presidential character are always interesting. She uses Freudian and Shakespearean analogies and, for students of literature like herself, she makes interesting reading. She cottoned on early…
It’s springtime for Kenney in Wildrose country as Alberta bids farewell to progressive conservatism
PHOTOS: Jason Kenney salutes his supporters after winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party on the first ballot yesterday. (Screenshot.) Below: Richard Starke, the Vermilion veterinarian who was Mr.…