Slouching Toward A City Near You
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?– W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming The man pictured above is Nick Shcherban, a Toronto resident…
September 2017
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ben Steverman examines the unfairness of the U.S.’ tax system – which, like Canada’s, offers gratuitous giveaways to wealthy investors which force workers…
Capitalism Will End, Celebrate What Comes Next
The damage that wealthy bankers did to the economy back in 2007/08 is still with us, and that has led to a whole generation questioning the validity of modern hyper-capitalism.…
How To Save Your Soul In Trump’s Hell
Ever since Donald Trump became president, the resistance to him and his deranged regime has been loud and proud.And deeply personal. But Trump has now been president for seven months…
Capitalism and Climate Change
In today’s Guardian, George Monbiot writes that capitalism — and, most particularly, neo-liberal capitalism — cannot solve the problem of climate change. It can only exacerbate it: As Milton Friedman,…
The water of life.
A handful of snow melting on a peak in the Rockies can become part of a torrent by the time it reaches the ocean. It is the water of life…
The Cons and the Big Fake Tax Scandal
Michael de Adder is one of my favourite Canadian cartoonists, a guy I admire a lot even if I don't always agree with his political views.But sadly this cartoon is…
Paul Hinman’s narrow by-election win in 2009 had a big impact on Alberta politics
Former Wildrose Alliance Party leader Paul Hinman staged an odd and brief reappearance on Alberta’s political stage this week when he announced his plans to run for the leadership of…
Unable to raise the entry fee, Paul Hinman drops out of UCP leadership race almost as soon as he dropped in
PHOTOS: Would-be/won’t-be UCP leadership candidate Paul Hinman, gone from the contest after the shortest Alberta leadership campaign in living memory, your blogger’s anyway. Below: Jason Kenney and Andy Warhol. Talk…
November, poems by Alberta’s Jaspreet Singh, lead Audreys Books’ Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers List this week
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Sept. 10, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Late Summer Melancholy of An Arch
Rolling on foot into Westmount today and took a pic which reminds me of Giorgio de Chirico’s Mystery and Melancholy of a Street. Here is Giorgio’s version. And here is…
If We Can’t Save Our Soil, How Can We Save Mankind?
Most of the farmland on Earth is to some degree degraded. Intensive agriculture combined with the lavish application of agri-chemicals – fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides – are largely to blame. Climate…
This Is Peerless!
The neoliberal agenda is in for a real takedown by Owen Jones here: Recommend this Post
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Interactive cats.
Falling Costs of Renewable Power Make Site C Dam Obsolete, Says Energy Economist
The cost of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, has dropped dramatically since the previous B.C. government decided to build the Site C dam and the B.C.…
More on the Attack on Herman Bell: A Letter from Attorney Robert Boyle
On September 5, political prisoner Herman Bell was beaten by guards at Great Meadow Correctional Facility. The following letter, by attorney Robert Boyle to Commissioner Anthony Annucci (New York State…
The headline you didn’t see: $15 per hour will have a big net benefit
You wouldn’t know it from today’s headlines about impending job losses, but an analysis of the impact of Ontario’s move to a $15 minimum wage from the province’s Financial Accountability…
Where Are Canada’s Missing Electric Cars?
The race is on for electric vehicle supremacy. Last week, China — the world’s second largest economy and consumer of about one-third of new cars — announced it will set…
MythBusting – How Japan is Writing Off Debt.
How a nation handles debt – public and private – is a subject with a rich history. It lies at the very foundation of democracy in ancient Athens. This was…