UNsettling Canada 150
Image by Idle No More Idle No More & Defenders of the Land call to action: In the spirit of Arthur Manuel, we want to make July 1st a National…
July 2017
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 24: Enough Canada already … eh?
I am now, officially, Canada’d out. Canada celebrated the 150th anniversary of Confederation on Saturday with an orgy of government-sponsored patriotism. Now, I’m as patriotic as the next person, but…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Abi Wilkinson writes that we’ll be far better served fighting inequality generally rather than limiting our focus to issues of social mobility:…
Trudeau forgets Alberta; Alberta flips out
Canada is a special place; but Alberta is a little prickly. The Soapbox family celebrated Canada Day at Olympic Plaza trying to dislodge a Big Red Ball wedged between some…
Military "Proud Boys" Disrupt Mi’kmaw Memorial in Halifax
On Canada day, while members of the Mi’kmaw Nation held a memorial remembering MMIWG in Halifax, a local contingent of “Proud Boys” arrived to disrupt the event, because the “Proud…
Could Hardliners Egg Trump Into a New Nuclear Arms Race?
Like everyone else, America’s militarist hardliners have been taking the measure of their man/baby president and these latter day Dr. Strangeloves see opportunity for the taking. small but influential group…
Churchill’s Plea – "Know I’m Here."
It’s called “SeaWall Churchill,” comprising 16 murals intended to focus attention on climate change and the state of the oceans in the Arctic. The murals were completed near the end…
Now Donald Trump Is Accused of Threatening The Media
In my last post I looked at Trump's frenzied assault on the media. And I wondered whether he was crazy or evil. Well now we know that he is both.…
America’s Enemies Have Less to Worry About Than Her Friends
The upcoming G20 summit in Berlin promises to be a lot livelier than the gatherings of the past. And, yes, that’s because of the terrible-tempered man baby/president, Donald Trump. Everybody,…
Square words
Writing has been described as the most significant human invention. We tend to think of inventions as mechanical things, like the wheel, or fire, or the printing press, the airplane,…
Have They Tried Lego?
As Donald Trump regresses to an infantile state it becomes ever more difficult to ignore, even for Congressional Republicans. There’s this 71-year old toddler on the eve of a foreign…
THOUGHTS FROM THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
THE MEANING OF MODERN LIFE IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE REAL MEANING OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURYWHERE RADICALS, CONSERVATIVES AND LIBERALS ALL AGREED THAT THE…
Is Donald Trump Crazy Or Evil?
It's the elephant or the monster in the room. The question that should haunt us all. Is Donald Trump mad or bad or both?For there he was yesterday morning, attacking…
We Are Not Amused
Like schoolchildren exchanging a lewd jest, Charles and Camillia just couldn’t contain themselves as they listened to a demonstration of throat singing in Iqaluit. The first 15 seconds of the…
Some Diseases Refuse To Die
As Donald Trump shows his strange obsession with Mika Brzezinski, William Rivers Pitt asks the $64,000 question: Why is the Republican Party still here? After all, the Republicans nominated and…
Expo 67: A sharp turn for Canada.
It was 50 years ago that the wife and I went to Montreal and camped for a week at my brother’s house while we spent our days at Expo 67.…
Big Tobacco will be pleased as Derek Fildebrandt’s ‘liberty’ video assails restrictions on flavoured cigarettes
PHOTOS: Young smokers, circa 1910. Below: A screenshot of Wildrose Finance Critic Derek Fildebrandt’s social media video, Mr. Fildebrandt himself, former Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith, and Prime Minister Justin…
Scraping the Barrel – Theresa May’s Polls Numbers Are Even Worse Than Trump’s
The walking cadaver also known as Britain’s prime minister, Theresa May, is in deep trouble – with the British public and especially with her own Tory caucus. After a disastrous…
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1867 Speech of Louis-Joseph Papineau at the Institut canadien
“When the right to freethinking, whether religious, political or scientific, is as generally proclaimed as it is it by the laws, the values and the practice of our days, it…