A Pop Quiz
Ms Soapbox is shocked. She just returned from the Alberta Teachers’ Association Summer Summit on Public Education and discovered that she knows far less about education and teaching in Alberta…
August 2017
The symphony of government
A good government in operation is like a symphony: disparate parts, dozens of different instruments and performers, each in their own space and place, all working together under the benign…
Anti-Fascists Confront La Meute in Quebec City.
In one of the opening scenes of the Charlottesville Vice documentary, one individual stated that he had driven 12 hours from Canada to attend the event: Well activists were able…
How the hate movement has changed
Excellent article by my friend Stewart Bell, here. For the past dozen years, the racist far-right has been fractured, without a prominent national leader or organization. But it has survived,…
NAFTA: Brian Clow couldn’t comment. So I did for him.
Here: Clow would not speak for this story. But someone who trained him in working war rooms was happy to share some thoughts about him and the job. It was…
Trump: the rule, not the exception
The United States racist? What would give you that idea? Spotted at the antiques fair just down the street in Kennebunkport.
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 31: Isn’t summer supposed to be a quiet time?
The world is truly moving too fast. Or at least it is in the United States of America, the flickering beacon of democracy. It seems like more stuff happened in…
At The Kröller Möller
The family has a history no doubt. And if you choose to visit the museum, set aside some travel time, and a good chunk of viewing time. There is a…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Amira Elghawaby comments on the loss of empathy in Canadian politics – particularly due to a disproportionate focus on the perceived self-interest…
Review: What Love Is
A philosophical examination of romantic love aimed at a lay audience. Some good stuff, but I didin’t like it as much as I’d hoped. It takes a critical, feminist, queer,…
Present view, Sunday morning
Present view. The Bush family are on that distant point. And we’d all give anything for one of them to be President of the United States again. Good times.
Leaving All Of Us In Poverty
In this weekend’s Globe and Mail, Amira Elghawaby asks, “Where has all our empathy gone?” That’s a question a lot of us are asking after Charlottesville. Here in Canada, Elghawaby…
The Never-Ending Shame of Andrew Scheer
It took him days before he summoned up the courage to say anything about the way Ezra Levant's hate mongering Rebel had disgraced itself, and Canada, with its appalling coverage…
“My Trump, right or wrong!”
(We are playing a bit of catch-up here.) Not being a regular viewer of Late Night with Stephen Colbert, I had to watch the segment with Donald Trump’s friend Anthony…
The Levant Tapes: Now You Can Be the Judge
It's been two days since a young British videographer, Caolan Robertson, revealed he had secretly recorded a meeting with his former boss Ezra Levant.And made some shocking allegations about the…
Vancouver: Massive Counter-Protest While WCAI No-Show
Joey DeLuca and Jesse Wielenga of WCAI have been in the news as a result of their plans to hold a rally in Vancouver along with the Cultural Action Party…
Betrayal by the Block, again
Monday night, The Block will engage in their favourite political activity: betraying the public trust. In fact, it’s the only political activity they’ve engaged in this term, in which the…
what i’m reading: maximum security book club
I have an abiding interest in prison librarianship, and try to learn about it wherever I can. Whenever the OLA Superconference features a session on prison libraries, I attend. I’m…
Leadership 2017 Links
The latest from the federal NDP’s leadership campaign. – Bruce Anderson and David Coletto take a look at public perceptions of Canada’s political parties. And the relatively small differences in…