I Become Increasingly Disappointed
Only a naif would believe the myth that Canada is a country with a proud tradition of openness and acceptance. Attempts at indigenous assimilation, the the despicable treatment of west…
July 2017
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of July 17, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 17, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: Alabama lawyer is reprimanded over penis amputation suit Ontario Superior Court asked…
Paul Fromm and the Proud Boys: when neo-Nazis of a feather flock together
Paul Fromm is perhaps the leading Canadian far Right leader. Fromm has decades of involvement with the Canadian organized hate movement, from the Edmund Burke Society to the Western Guard…
The new ‘people’s home’: how Sweden is waging war on inequality | Inequality | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/jul/17/peoples-home-sweden-waged-war-inequality-rich-poor-gothenburg Filed under: Uncategorized
Canada’s 1%
Doug Saunders has written an interesting column on what he calls the most ghettoized community in Canada: My colleague Tom Cardoso and I recently published a set of interactive maps…
Hospitals rely on private sector funding more and more
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) reports that total expenditures on Ontario hospitals increased to $23.7 billion in 2016. This is an increase of 2.4% since 2015 and 6.1%…
Climate Comedies
I caught Al Franken and David Letterman’s Funny or Die series on climate change: Boiling the Frog. It’s vaguely informative and not particularly funny, but fans of either guy might…
Make More Things Out of Recycled Plastics
Over at Vice, one author asked a simple question: why don’t we make everything out of relayed plastic? The short answer is that oil is too cheap and companies don’t…
Is there any hope for Horwath?
Every once in a while, we are reminded that there are three parties at play for the right to hold the lease on the Pink Palace looking down University Avenue…
LISTEN: Our Family Experience With Disability Told to a Med Journal
This is a podcast and article I did for The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ). The piece is a shorter version of an address I gave at the American Academy…
Traces of the Grossly Impudent Lie #nlpoli
There’s a phrase in Pam Frampton’s Saturday column on Muskrat Falls. A bunch of words dropped in easily, maybe offhandedly. Nothing that really stands out. Just a simple fact. The…
Something useful for the premiers to talk about: the right’s perpetual myth making about equalization
PHOTOS: Edmonton’s stately old Macdonald Hotel, named for the prime minister of the same name and site of Canada’s premiers’ annual summertime beanfest this week. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons.) Below: Alberta…
There are 90 days left until Edmonton’s Municipal Elections
There are 90 days left until Edmonton’s municipal elections. Here are some of the latest updates to the list of candidates running in Edmonton’s municipal election for City Council and…
My response to the Interim Report of the Alberta Electoral Boundaries Commission
Earlier this year I submitted a series of recommendations to Alberta’s Electoral Boundaries Commission, the appointed body tasked with redrawing Alberta’s provincial electoral districts for the next election. The Commission…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 26: Greasy haired man caught with pants on fire.
The Donald Trump presidency has stumbled from one self-created crisis to another in the six months (is THAT ALL??) since he was inaugurated. Somehow, he has managed to brush them…
The Communists are Coming!
Jason Kenney says he has not heard a “single voice of opposition” to the unification of the Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties except for “a communist professor from the University…
"You cannot kill the working class"
WORKING CLASS HISTORYPRIMARY DOCUMENTS #CPUSAI LOVE THE TITLE OF THIS PAMPHLET“You cannot kill the working class,”by Herndon, Angelo, 1913-1997.https://archive.org/details/youCannotKillTheWorkingClassa pamphlet by a CP activist who became a cause celeb when…
Let’s Talk Famine.
Over the past few days we’ve focused on mass extinction, climate change, overpopulation and the exhaustion of essential resources through over-consumption. How about we move on to something else? How…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Larry Elliott reports on a Resolution Foundation study showing that while the UK’s 1% has fully recovered from the 2008 financial crash,…
But Are They Listening?
Unless we live in complete and willful ignorance, all of us are aware, on at least a minimal level, of the perils currently confronting and engulfing our world. Those perils,…