Donald Trump Prepares To Declare War On the Media
Donald Trump is relaxing at his favourite golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. The place where Ivanka was married, the place where he wants to be buried.Still claiming he's not…
August 2017
It takes four to replace Mansbridge?
The other day, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced that it will take four people to replace long-time news anchor Peter Mansbridge. The question is whether the four are equal to…
Has St. Albert councillor’s mayoral campaign forgotten the incumbent mayor isn’t seeking reelection?
PHOTOS: St. Albert City Councillor Cam MacKay, who is running for mayor of the municipality northwest of Edmonton. Below: Mayoral candidate Cathy Heron, also a city councillor, St. Albert Mayor…
Building Everyday Anti-Fascism (repost)
Ibrahima Barry. Azzeddine Soufiane. Khaled Belkacemi. Mamadou Tanou Barry. Abdelkrim Hassane. Boubaker Thabti. On January 29, 2017, these six men were murdered while praying at Québec City’s Islamic Cultural Centre,…
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GQ Creates New Award and Trump Wins
GQ rates Donald Trump the “laziest president in American history.” How does the Cheeto Benito pick up that accolade only six months into his term? Easy: “Don’t take vacations. What’s…
NDP Could End Up Winning Ontario In 2018
(Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath Could Be the Strongest Leader In Contention For 2018) With the next provincial election coming into view in Ontario, have the Liberals made a fatal…
Well, the Other Guy Had Goebbels.
Cheerful news from Business Insider. Donald Trump has a guy in mind to fill the vacancy for communications director. In case you haven’t followed that inner sanctum revolving door, here’s…
Jeebus! The NRA Wants to "Fist" the New York Times
This is the level of public discourse among America’s radical right, including the NRA.
Let’s Stop Cheating Our Grandchildren
The headline in The Independent is as powerful as it is true: Every second we waste denying climate change exists is time we steal from the next generation who will…
This guy visited when we were stacking a cord of wood
About six inches. Quiet type. Anyone know his name?
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian writes that Donald Trump’s presidency is merely a symptom of the wider disease of undue deference to wealth. And Matt Karp…
Saturday Photo: Dry Falls and the Forces of the Earth
On our trip West in July, one of the most interesting places we stopped was at the Dry Falls State Park where the ancestral Columbia once ran. Or maybe it…
A Failure In Retrospect
Now that the Republicans have failed to repeal Obamacare, Paul Krugman puts that failure in perspective. Obamacare failed because the Republicans’ attempts to sabotage it really ticked people off: I’m…
The Fast-Approaching Abyss
While North American politicians give us either sunny platitudes or outright denials, the reality of the climate-change abyss we are quickly approaching should now be becoming apparent to even the…
Lazy Boy Trump and the Green Monster
It's a brutal cover picture, and I'm sure Donald Trump must hate it. It's a narcissist's nightmare.Trump must be screaming into every golden mirror in the White House, or rolling…
The Trump Technique.
The media were all atwitter the other day when they got some leaked transcripts from the White House of conversations President Trump had with other countries’ leaders. They got them…
Just a Giggle
Many people have pronounced me a curmudgeon. With that in mind, this:
BREAKING: Last-minute Charges Laid Against Mount Polley in Private Prosecution
In a surprise eleventh-hour move, indigenous activist and former Chief of the Xat’sull First Nation, Bev Sellars, has filed charges against the Mount Polley Mining Corporation, owned by Imperial Metals,…