“Flabbergasting”
“Flabbergasting” If you need to hear every Conservative talking point repeated without a thought in the world, try the Regina Chamber CEO’s take on CTV: “Nation building” “tidewater” “energy independence”…
October 2017
We’ve Got to Shed the 20th Century, But How?
George Monbiot reminds us how much of the 20th century still clings to us and why we have to shed that skin if we’re to survive the 21st. We are…
This young guy in Ottawa picked up Recipe For Hate!
Nice guy. Knew a lot about current events. Says he looks forward to reading Recipe For Hate. Told him it is getting great reviews. We had a great chat, although…
Fighting Back
Colin Kaepernick, the young NFL quarterback about whom I have previously posted, has shown remarkable integrity and fortitude dealing with the furor following his decision to ‘take a knee’ rather…
Column: desperate politicians do desperate things
How desperate is Justin Trudeau to keep NAFTA? Ask the Mexicans, now peering out from under the proverbial bus – where, you know, Trudeau pushed them. Pretty desperate. As they…
After Going Green, Cities Need Turn Blue
Cities need to work with their local ecosystems and not against them. This is evidently true when it comes to waste management and overt displays of green initiatives. There is…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of October 16, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 16, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: Feds win bid to reargue the facts used in landmark assisted-dying case…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Karl Russell and Peter Goodman note that lower unemployment rates in the U.S aren’t translating into higher wages. Alena Semuels points out the…
Ministers of the faith #6
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The Con Media’s Outrageous Assault on the Liberals
As you know I have very little respect for the corporate media in this country, for its right-wing bias couldn't be more shabby or more blatant.With only few exceptions, it's…
Could He Be Right?
Sometimes irony is entertaining. Sometimes it hurts. Tom Walkom points to the irony of Donald Trump’s insistence on American content rules as part of NAFTA: Under NAFTA, automobiles manufactured anywhere…
Site C – building a cesspool, not a reservoir
There are reasons why proponents of Site C, including utility executives and members of the former BC Liberal Government, continue to promote the project despite much evidence that it was…
Canada’s ongoing complicity with exploitive extraction schemes
Photo from report, The ‘Canada Brand’: Violence and Canadian Mining Companies in Latin America On June 15, 1841, the newly established Legislative Council of the Province of Canada — a…
Boys are not allowed to hit girls
Don’t do much anymore except make breakfast for one of my grandkids, a seven year old boy, walking him to school, picking him up and then having philosophical conversations about…
The Vietnam War, Episodes 9 and 10
As we cross the finish line of The Vietnam War marathon, I want to offer some thoughts about the documentary as a whole. First, despite all the Vietnamese voices it…
What A Great Legacy
Jimmy Carter will not be remembered as one of the great U.S. presidents, but when his long life ends, he will be remembered for something much more meaningful: great humanitarian…
Did Donald Trump obstruct justice?
The Brookings Institute has just released a 108-page, single-spaced, fully-footnoted, tightly-reasoned indictment of Donald Trump. The whole document is here. At the risk of spoiling it for you, here is…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 39: The world of perpetual crisis
I’m too young to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis (what a pleasure, for once, to be ‘too young’ to remember something). From what I know of it, it sounds like…
what i’m reading: turtles all the way down, the new book by john green
I don’t usually write about a book while I’m still under its spell, but there are always exceptions. John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down is an exceptional book. One…