Does the religious model serve the new politics?
Is it religion that we see reflected in the new politics. Maybe it has been there all along. Canadian politics has been slower to wrap itself in vestments but in…
October 2017
Riding with Rafe: 10 years of stories from a BC icon
Rafe Mair in Campbell River in 2009, speaking out against GE’s $5 Billion proposed Bute Inlet private power project (Image: Damien Gillis) Few people are lucky enough to work with,…
Is Trump Unraveling?
Has Donald Trump become the White House Captain Queeg?
St. Albert politics in five Tweets: Trying to get a little illumination from an uninspiring mayoral forum
PHOTO: Your blogger’s lousy iPhone photo of St. Albert’s three mayoral candidates – from left to right, Cam MacKay, Malcolm Parker, and Cathy Heron – on the stage at the…
Oil’s Deep State by Kevin Taft continues to top Audreys Books’ Edmonton Bestsellers List
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended October 10, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Belated Thanksgiving Douchebaggery From Ronny Cameron
Belated on my part I should note. Thanksgiving is a holiday that I feel particularly conflicted about. On the one hand the modern sentiment behind it is laudable; expressing gratitude…
Alberta appoints new deputy minister of health to replace department’s controversial former top civil servant
PHOTOS: Milton Sussman, Alberta’s new Deputy Minister of Health, as president and CEO of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority (Photo: CBC). Below: His controversial predecessor, Carl Amrhein, whose last day…
Is Trump’s #MAGA Doomed?
Donald Trump has boasted he’s the man to Make America Great Again. Instead he may wind up presiding over America’s decline. Economist Carl Weinberg has told CNBC that China is…
Trump’s State Visit to Britain Called Off?
British newspapers are reporting that Donald Trump’s visit to the UK early next year has been downgraded from a state visit to a working visit. That means the Queen won’t…
National Coming Out Day 2017
It’s October 11. In the United States, at least, it’s National Coming Out Day. I know of no such celebration in Canada but we’ve been ahead of the pack inn…
How Oil Hijacked Alberta’s Politics: Behind the Curtain With Former Liberal Leader Kevin Taft
For decades, Kevin Taft has served as a thorn in the side of Alberta’s provincial government. In his new book, Taft, who served as a Liberal MLA between 2001 and…
Relax, Creating This Sort of Artificial Intelligence is a Long Way Off.
Quantum mechanics and string theory are difficult concepts for the layman to grasp at even a superficial level. I’ve done it twice but each time it took a good bit…
Earthgauge News
The inaugural edition of our new podcast Earthgauge News! A weekly Canadian environmental news podcast featuring the top environmental stories from across Canada for the week of Oct. 9, 2017.…
Publishers Weekly: Recipe for Hate an “unflinching page-turner”!
Publisher’s Weekly is the book trade publication in the United States. As Wikipedia notes, it is the “American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers and literary agents.…
My Tax Dollars Hard at Work or Hardly Working? A Quick Analysis of the Recent Moonglo Zoning Decision
OK, so I’ve read the recent Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) decision about the proposed change in zoning in the Moonglo neighbourhood. What a gong show for the City this whole…
Recipe for Hate gets a not-bad review in Quill and Quire!
…and, in 25 years of writing books, I can tell you that this is the best review I’ve ever gotten from them. As I just told my publisher, I am…
Oct. 11: Christian Terrorism
There was a (brief) pleasure in opening the pages of the irving press today. Norbert Cunningham has at last noticed that climate change is happening – and quickly. And I…
Suppressing Dissent
Like countless others, I support those protesting both the wicked legacy and current practice of North American racism. While more egregious perhaps in the United States, Canada’s own shameful racist…
Ministers of the faith #3
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