My Fabulous Canada Day Long Weekend
Well I must say my Canada 150 long weekend was about 150% better than I had hoped it would be.The music and the fireworks were amazing. Some friends from Montreal…
July 2017
Conservative politicians’ reaction to PM’s missing-Alberta gaffe suggests they suffer from world-class insecurity
PHOTOS: Are the hillbillies above what our conservative politicians want the rest of Canada to think of when they hear the word Alberta? They should just stop! Below: Calgary Nose…
This week’s column: Happy —— Day
Canada’s 150th birthday has come and gone. Notice anything missing? Like, say, a federal presence. If you live outside of Ottawa, you sure didn’t see much of that. In Ottawa,…
Macron and Trudeau shouldn’t be so proud of appointing women to their Cabinets
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron are obviously proud of the fact that they’ve both appointed gender-parity Cabinets. For Malliga Och, an Assistant Professor of Global…
Leadership 2017 Links
The latest from the federal NDP’s leadership campaign. – Jagmeet Singh offered a must-read Multiculturalism Day take on the extra challenges faced by people fighting negative stereotypes, while also announcing…
Deck chair with cat.
Filed under: art
July 3: problems ignored.
I’m starting this on a Sunday, and the first part will be about the news of New Brunswick in the Irving press. Actually, there is no news in the Irving…
A Look Back At Moose Jaw High Street
This mural was destroyed by a fire.
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Martin Lukacs writes that the world should able to draw plenty of positive examples from Canada’s politics – though not from the corporate-focused…
Monbot Fingers British Columbia for Democratic Subversion.
These days when you see an unexpected “come from behind” election win you need to ask whether the election was rigged? When it comes to vote tampering Canada, well more…
Is An Enemy of Humanity Not Your Enemy Too?
If someone is poised to inflict irreparable harm to humanity, especially when he’s motivated by greed or prejudice or narcissism, is that person not an enemy of humanity? And, if…
"A War For the Future Of the Republic." Trump’s Christian Caliphate.
If Donald Trump has his way, America’s Christian right can have their way. Earlier in the month, the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority” conference brought Religious Right activists…
They’re Here to Stay But We All Knew That, Didn’t We?
In the Beginning, well my beginning, there were but two nuclear powers and, even then, the Soviet’s bomb only beat my arrival by a matter of days. Still, two it…
Truly, Profoundly Disturbing
I have just finished reading a long article in National Geographic, one that, without any use of hyperbole, should disturb all of us deeply and profoundly. But thanks to our…
No Einstein
The Trudeau government has spent a lot of effort trying to to stay on the good side of Donald Trump, fearing that he will rip up NAFTA. But a recent…
A land big enough for a rubber ducky.
That churlish little man, Conservative leader Patrick Brown, stood in the Ontario legislature a while ago to make fun of a rubber ducky he had never even met. That rubber…
Justin Trudeau and the Absurd Alberta Kerfuffle
I thought Justin Trudeau did a great job of presiding over the Canada Day festivities in Ottawa, as well as representing the spirit of the new generation.But as you probably…
Oooh, the Optics.
He may not have scored a cushy job in the Trump cabinet but Chris Christie is still the governor of New Jersey and that counts for something. Unfortunately the optics…
History lesson
I’ll soon be publishing my impressions of what is ahead when John Horgan forms Government, supported by 41 NDP MLAs and 3 MLAs from the BC Green Party. I’ve been…
Hersh’s New Syria Revelations Buried From View
Veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, the man who exposed the Mai Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and the US military’s abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib in 2004,…