American Startup Creates Job Board for People with Criminal Records
Americans like to think of themselves living in the land of the free, ironically the country has the highest incarceration rate on the planet (and the greatest number of people…
August 2017
Just a few magic numbers
I was born August the 8th, 1953. Yes, thats 08/08/535+3=88+8+8=242×4=8And today I turn 648×8=64 Yes. I know its all coincidental, and there is no secret meanings. Just a bit of…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Noah Smith makes the case for the U.S. Democrats to emphasize trust-busting as a means of restoring power to people rather than…
Who Would Be Worse Donald Trump or Mike Pence?
He can often be seen looking on at Donald Trump's grotesque travelling circus with a strange smile on his face.When asked to say something about his boss, Mike Pence sounds…
43 years ago today
And important anniversary. Any bets on when history will repeat itself?
The Worst Is Yet To Come
So you think that with Trump gone it will be morning in American again? Think again. Paul Mason writes: The scenario being touted in Democrat circles is that Trump tries…
The grassroots of ignorance.
Recently we complained about Opposition Leader Andrew ‘Chuckles’ Scheer inciting bigotry over the restitution paid to Canadian citizen Omar Khadr. Now we have the less bright of Chuckles’ backbenchers repeating…
This week’s column: fight night insight
Every political hack remembers where they were when the first black man was elected president of the United States, or when Nelson Mandela was freed from a South African prison,…
Trump’s dangerous explicit endorsement of police brutality
Addressing a crowd of police officers in Long Island, New York, U.S. President Donald Trump explicitly endorsed police brutality, because “America is once again a nation of laws”. The post…
Handing Government to the Corporate Sector
A couple of timely posts today about Donald Trump and his fascist administration. (here, here and here) This definition of latter-day fascism is built on Mussolini’s description of fascism as…
Marcus Aurelius and The Block
Perhaps the most famous work by any Stoic is the Meditations, written as a series of notes-to-myself by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. I’ve been reading a lot of Stoic works…
An Open Book Without All Those Bothersome Pages
He’s actually doing their job for them. He is Donald Trump. They are hostile intelligence services trying to plumb the shallow depths of Trump’s mind. The steady stream of tweets…
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Forward Thinking: Win/Win
Thanks to the rotation of the Earth and the force of tectonic plates, the Pacific Northwest is rich in hydro-electric power. Moisture-laden air flows in from the Pacific, hits the…
Leadership 2017 Links
The latest from the federal NDP’s leadership campaign. – Peter Zimonjic, Katie Derosa and the Canadian Press each offered coverage of the Victoria debate. – Charlie Angus unveiled Christine Moore’s…
Retreat From the Sea. Retreat To the Sea.
The Pacific Northwest is being hammered right now with a widespread heatwave, summer drought, and massive wildfires across mainland British Columbia that are spreading a blanket of smoke throughout the…
August 4: End Days in the U.S.
I never miss the irving press. It’s always a world class stinker. The Saturday editorial, for example, suggested we reduce the cost of university education in New Brunswick. Rubbish! We’re…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 29: Western nation in crisis … guess which one.
An important democracy in the Western Hemisphere is lurching towards a dictatorship after the election of a crazed, megalomaniacal leader. And no, this isn’t another blog about Donald Trump. (Betcha…
Three years on, Mount Polley disaster a painful reminder of never-ending horror
Photo by Jonathan Hayward/CP Bev Sellers is constantly reminded about the deeply personal, social and cultural loss that she and others in her community of Williams Lake have suffered since…