Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Ethan Cox reports on new polling showing that Canadians are highly concerned about inequality – even if our governments aren’t doing anywhere meaningful…
April 2017
The race to nowhere
Following up on in the Saskatchewan Party’s budget plan to benefit the rich with tax cuts (with the explicit aim of making corporate taxes lower than any other province) while…
Ontario’s Electricity Sector II: Political Economy Update
This is a third guest post by Edgardo Sepulveda, who is a Toronto-based expert in telecommunications and regulatory economics. Twitter: @E_R_Sepulveda By Edgardo Sepulveda In my previous post of January…
disrupt and transform: 2017 cupe ontario library workers conference
The 2017 CUPE Ontario Library Workers Conference was a very special event for the Mississauga Library Workers Union. Over the course of two days, our 2016 strike and the great…
Saturday Photo: The Port of Montreal, Ice-free in April
It used to be that just about now the first ocean-going ships would make it up the St. Lawrence to Montreal. Before then travel on the river would be dangerous…
A Cost-Benefit Analysis Of Air Travel, Or Am I Just Another Hypocrite?
Having just returned from a 10-day visit to England, my first and my wife’s third, the hypocrisy of my use of air travel is not lost on me. Well-known as…
Why is this man still working for Collingwood? – part 2
Almost a year ago, I posed the question: why is the interim CAO still working for Collingwood? After his behaviour and aggressive, disrespectful grilling of the hospital board chair and…
Still Looking Out For No. 1
Donald Trump is receiving a lot of support for his decision to unleash Cruise missiles on Syria. Even Hillary Clinton agreed with his decision. However, Jonathan Freeland writes that, while…
And you want their names spelled right too?
Henceforth it is resolved that we will post our commentaries after our second cup of coffee. Despite how much we try to ignore the Conservative M.P. for our neighbouring electoral…
Here’s your hat … Jason Kenney’s reconstituted PCs bid farewell to former party president Katherine O’Neill
PHOTOS: Departed Progressive Conservative Party president Katherine O’Neill (CBC photo). Below: PC Leader Jason Kenney and former leadership candidates from the party’s progressive wing, Sandra Jansen and Steve Khan. Katherine…
Clown singing Pinball Wizard to the tune of Folsom Prison Blues
When I run everything, this is the only sort of thing I will allow on TV.
Musical interlude
Pale – Too Much
With Syria missile strikes, Trump turns from non-intervention to waging war
The US’ cruise missile strikes against Syria’ Shayrat airforce base mark President Donald Trump’s first big foreign policy test. For foreign policy realists, Trump’s swift turn from non-intervention to waging…
Solidarity with the Secwepemc: Yes to a healthy environment, no to Ajax Mine
Friday, April 7, 2017 On April 1st, the Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund team had an opportunity to visit some of our grantees in Secwepemc territory/Kamloops and participate in a declaration…
Nepotism Rising –
Is Prince Jared of Kushner the pin in the grenade about to devastate Donald Trump’s Oval Office? Kushner is now Trump’s “go to” guy and, in the process, he seems…
April 7: The Smell of a Rat….
Sometimes, the smell of a rat is so strong you can even see it. Sniff this one. The people of a province learn that two major beaches for thousands of…
Disturbing Police Malpractice Uncovered
Everything about this case is disturbing, most definitely the shooting death of Dunphy. Ironically, Dunphy had invited the officer into his house. (The officer, Joe Smyth, showed up unannounced at…
Swatting Flies
My brother called around dinnertime yesterday to tell me that Trump had launched a cruise missile attack against Syria. I told him that they almost certainly gave the Russians a…
Buying Time
America, the land of inequality. Where everybody gets to play life’s little lottery. A recent article noted that Canadians live three years longer on average than our American cousins. But…
B.C. Government Scientists Say Staff Cutbacks, Outsourcing and Political Interference Threaten Public Health and Safety
Contracting out scientific work to non-government professionals, while cutting back on ministry scientists and experts, is threatening the B.C. government’s ability to make decisions based on sound science, says a…