The Qatar Crisis
The June 5 decision by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Egypt to suspend diplomatic ties with Qatar has sent shockwaves through the Middle East. The ensuing…
July 2017
Arthur Manuel’s battle against the 0.2 per cent Indigenous economy
Photo by Tupac Enrique Acosta As the pageantry around Canada 150 begins, Ricochet and our Indigenous Reporting Fund present “Resistance 150: Unsettling Canada’s Hidden Economic Apartheid,” a series honouring and…
Water Usage in B.C.’s Northeast Requires Indigenous Consent
By Grand Chief Stewart Phillip and Ben Parfitt One of the most important things that all Green and New Democratic Party MLAs agreed to in reaching their historic agreement to…
Bravo, Jerry Brown
While Donald Trump is content to call climate change a hoax, his withdrawal from the Paris Climate Change Accord does not mean that others are just throwing up their hands…
Oh Great. How US Officials Try to Brief Trump to Meet With Putin
US officials have prepared briefing binders to help prepare their president for his one on one meeting with Vlad Putin. However, recognizing that Trump isn’t a reader, especially when it…
Just did an interview with the Hill Times about the series I’ve been signed to write
…which gives me a shameless opportunity to share with you, Valued Reader, the cover, and an Amazon pre-order link to same. These books make excellent Christmas, Hanukkah and birthday gifts.…
Book review: Understanding spatial media
I’ve just reviewed a new book about spatial media (and have written it from the vantage point of somebody working in Canada’s homelessness sector). Points raised in the blog post…
The Fleecing of America (and Us Too).
When con artists named Thatcher, Reagan and Mulroney, sold us on the scam of neoliberalism, they promised us “new economy” jobs, plenty of them, at much higher wages than the…
China’s "Red October"
Tom Clancey and Alex Baldwin introduced the public to breakthrough technology in submarine power in “The Hunt for Red October.” Beijing now claims it has made Clancey’s imaginary sub a…
Cassandra Calling. Our Goose is Nearly Cooked.
Another climate change report from the “Yeah, it’s way worse than you imagined” file. Has there ever been an area of science where predictions have been so persistently unduly optimistic.…
Okay, Then. He Was Just In a "Baghdad State of Mind."
Tony Blair has been in the news the last couple of days as the English High Court has been hearing a case claiming the former Brit prime minister should be…
It’s Fatso’s Fault
The History Channel, that is to say the U.S. version, will be airing a documentary on Sunday that purports to reveal what really happened to Amelia Earhart and her navigator,…
No, I Won’t Stop Saying “White Supremacy”
According to Robin DiAngelo, a former Associate Professor of Multicultural Education: “Naming white supremacy changes the conversation because it shifts the problem to white people, where it belongs.” The post…
Birds of a Feather
Donald Trump’s visit to Poland was a big hit, at least with the sitting government. Trump likes Poland. It’s his kind of place – for Europe at least. What’s not…
New column day
Here, on Ottawa’s Canada 150 event which was planned solely for the benefit of VIPs and businesses rather than mere people – and how that reality fits the Trudeau Libs’…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Darlene O’Leary sets out the results from public consultations for a national anti-poverty strategy. And Dennis Howlett writes that our tax system…
Less outrage, more action
I’m not one for shying away from thinking or talking or writing about the bad things in the world, but I have really been struck in the last few days…
LawFact of the Day: Civil Litigation
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday July 6, 2017. For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, Wills, Estates, and Estates Litigation, visit our website at…
the politics of the hardboiled detective novel
I love these old covers! Last year, I blogged about a wonderful essay by Raymond Chandler called “The Simple Art of Murder“, written in 1950. Reading that, I realized that…