A Little Balance
Since yesterday’s post was about the terrible excesses our cossetted and selfish species is capable of, I thought it might be nice to post today about someone who clearly respects…
June 2017
The Day Donald Trump Went Over the Deep End
It was only a matter of time before Donald Trump started to fall apart, or was driven over the edge by the pressures of being president. He never thought he'd…
They’ve Been Asleep
The Senate version of Trumpcare is nasty and cruel. It can’t be called anything else. Then why, Paul Krugman asks, do the Republicans persist on pushing it? The answer, he…
‘Chuckles’ Scheer is no attack dog.
It was two Regina MPs who helped Vassy Kapelos to wrap up her West Block show on Global TV for the summer. As she had Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the…
Canada 150 #nlpoli #cdnpoli
From my paper “Two solitudes”, Dorchester Review, volume 6, number 1, spring/summer 2016: “Newfoundland and Canada, separate countries for so long, exist as two solitudes within the bosom of a…
Will deficit hysteria finally pave the way for a sensible Alberta sales tax? Ummm … don’t count on it
PHOTOS: Never mind the political stuff, this is the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory, where astronomer Max Wolf discovered the Minor Planet Climenhaga in 1917. Below, not in the order in which…
It Is Finished
After 16-uninterrupted years of rule by possibly the most corrupt provincial government since Grant Devine’s, British Columbians are rid of the BC Liberal government. The Lt. Gov., perhaps fearful of…
Passages by Alberta author Anne Hamre leads Audreys Books Edmonton Bestsellers List this week
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended June 25, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
"The Clenched Fist of Truth"
Where freedom is safe, the National Rifle Association.
Our Fateful Final Hour
It’s expected that within the hour the British Columbia government of Christy Clark will lose a confidence vote. Clark has shown, as if anyone needs more proof, that she has…
Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men from Hate Speech But Not Black Children
Internal Facebook documents reviewed by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom, reveal that the social media behemoth’s censors often condone hate speech by white men but punish racialized minorities and…
Economists support $15 minimum wage in Ontario
We, the undersigned economists, support the decision to increase the minimum wage in Ontario to $15 an hour. Raising the wage floor makes good economic sense. Today, Ontario’s minimum wage…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Des Cohen discusses how economic inequality has developed – and how it’s now rewarding people for doing nothing more than worsening its…
New column day
Here, on how the historical competition between the NDP and the Greens hasn’t precluded cooperation where it counts in British Columbia – and how the governing accord there might offer…
First Nations Case Against Site C Struck Down by Supreme Court of Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal brought by the West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations that argues the federal government failed to consider their…
Truth-Telling 150: Our reflections on reconciliACTION
Thursday, June 29, 2017 Polite conversations don’t include talking about Canada’s colonial history and current reality. Sometimes we must stand up and speak out with unpopular messages to break the…
Celebrating Idiocracy
It’s so obvious, so inescapable, you can almost smell it. “It” is America’s transformation into true idiocracy. The Globe’s Lawrence Martin writes that, in today’s America, “the less you know,…
And, no, it doesn’t change “Liberal” to “Lieberal,” Reformatories
So. When I type "Dippers" as a fond short form of "New Democrats," autocorrect renders it "Diapers." Offered without comment, Team #NDP. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 29, 2017
Gospel By Gaslight
If gaslighting is “a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or members of a group, hoping to make targets question their own…
Why Does Trump Surround Himself with Shady Characters?
Mike Flynn, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, Jeff Sessions, Jared Kushner, Felix Sater and Bayrock Associates, a gaggle of Russian oligarchs linked to Putin, and, more recently, both of Trump’s lead…