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April 2017
‘My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell’ by Arthur Bear Chief tops Audreys Books non-fiction bestseller list
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended April 2, 2017, compiled on April 4, 2017, by Audreys Books…
Toronto’s Jewish Defence League is a far right group with powerful friends
Photo from Jewish Defence League Canada Blog We live in strange and dangerous times. While Toronto thugs export their violence and extremist ideology to the U.S.A. and the Jewish Defence…
NAFTA Kills: Who will Speak for the Working Class?
Photo by Ben Goff A recent report out of the US raises questions about politicians’ (in Canada and the US) obsession with the state of the middle class and highlights…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – In advance of this year’s Progress Summit, Ed Broadbent writes that burgeoning inequality threatens our democracy: Inequality matters. Promises must be kept.…
New column day
Here, following up on this post as to the Libs’ cynical repudiation of the very concept of ideas and values in politics. For further reading…– Fair Vote Canada’s list of…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday April6, 2017. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. In Ontario, you may complete a Power of Attorney for…
The Conservative Party is no longer the party of Harper
…and, for them, that spells disaster. Snippet from next week’s column below. And comments are open! If the 2016-2017 Conservative leadership race is to be remembered for anything at all,…
SEEKING NEW WAYS TO VIEW RETIREMENT
I love this guest post by Leandro Mueller because it reminds me to think of my own retirement together with my Mom’s. We all need to re-conceptualize aging in order…
Be Safe Online
The American government recently repealed laws set to protect your privacy online, clearly the government doesn’t care about private communication. This impacts people around the world because a lot of…
One Wonders
Brent Rathgeber is not happy. He writes that, philosophically, he’s a conservative: As a conservative, I believe in a market economy. I believe that, when it comes to government, less…
They are by-elections for goodness sake!
You just love it when the government has to call some by-elections for seats in parliament that have become vacant and people want to analyze the results. Why? We knew…
Alberta’s first woman premier calls for more than talk about the deplorable treatment of women in politics
PHOTOS: Former Progressive Conservative Premier Alison Redford smiles sadly as she leaves Government House in Edmonton on March 13, 2015, the day her Progressive Conservative caucus made the first steps…
‘My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell.’ by Arthur Bear Chief tops Audreys Books non-fiction bestseller list
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended April 2, 2017, compiled on April 4, 2017, by Audreys Books…
EKOS poll: Canada should support Israeli sanctions, not demonize them
Photo by the McGill Daily Foreign policy is one of those areas of democratic governance that doesn’t often get on the public’s radar. But when it does it provides citizens…
Soldiers of Odin: Terrorist Organization Supporters?
On Sunday, I reported on the April 1 anti-Muslim protests that occurred in both Toronto and Calgary. At the protest in Toronto was this fella: Zaza Vili, pictured here with…
A Nation of the Walking Dead
Illustration by Harvard Business Review Opioids and experiences that simulate the deadening effects of narcotics are mechanisms to keep us submissive and depoliticized. Desperate citizens in Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Owen Jones writes that excessive reliance on corporate profiteers is the reason why the UK’s trains don’t run on time. And Nora Loreto…
Transit costs are too darn high
Public transit is a key piece of urban infrastructure, important for getting people where they want to go while limiting congestion and pollution. A central part of the federal government’s…