Is Trump Now Too Mentally Disturbed To Remain In Office?
For a while last night there was a rumour flying around Washington that General John Kelly, Donald Trump's Chief of Staff, was about to resign.Having finally given up trying to…
October 2017
It’s Coming
On the question of electoral reform, Andrew Coyne is an optimist: It is going to happen, eventually. Some day, somewhere in this country, at some level of government, the monopoly…
“Nice suits and empty slogans.”
That comment about suits and slogans was in the last line of the Toronto Star’s pompous editorial on “The challenge for Singh.” The newspaper editorialists want Singh and Trudeau to…
Holy Joly
Does she have photos of Justin Trudeau in a compromising position? Does he owe her a lot of money? Is she holding hostage a member of his family? There’s no…
Herman Bell’s charges dropped. moved to Shawangunk!
On September 5th, political prisoner and movement elder Herman Bell was assaulted by guards at Great Meadow Correctional Facility. He sustained multiple injuries, including broken ribs, yet instead of being…
Stephen Clarkson: An Introduction to a special blog series
Stephen Clarkson: Political Economist with a Global Vision (1937 – 2016) Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Daniel Drache Stephen Clarkson died early in 2016 in Freiburg, Germany and Canada lost someone…
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Paarlberg discusses how the ratchet effect is making American health care far more durable than Republicans may have realized – while recognizing…
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780 Saint Remi – Then and Now.
Took this picture about 7 years ago after much of the Turcot Movement had already happened. Much on my mind at that point. This was a pretty cool building inhabited…
Musical interlude
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Runnin’ Down a Dream
Nature’s Parting Gift
Tropical storm Nate is expected to gather strength as it crosses the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and heads for landfall Sunday morning somewhere in Louisiana or Alabama.…
Will Trump Scuttle the Iran Nuclear Deal? If He Does, Only a Fool Would Trust the United States.
Here’s the problem. Donald Trump cannot understand why anyone would believe, much less trust, the United States anyway. He’s a pathological liar, he knows that, and he expects others to…
It’s a Familiar Pattern
A hallmark of the rise of illiberal democracy is the suppression or intimidation of the judiciary. Authoritarian rule can rarely abide the rule of law and seeks to subvert it…
Oct. 6: An Ugly World.
On Thursday, our local papers went wild with indignation when it was officially revealed that a company called Atcon some years ago had hit the government (and the taxpayers) for…
Elements of a Successful Panel
Congrats, you have an all male panel! Follow the #allmalepanel hashtag on Twitter and you’ll find that there’s no end to the creation of bad panels and the commentators that…
Is Your Smartphone Dumbing You Down? Ask the Guys Who Made That Possible.
This is fascinating, a resistance movement emerging within Silicon Valley. They’re speaking out and warning of a dire threat that probably spends a good deal of time in your hand.…
Five Things You Need to Know About the Cancellation of the Energy East Oilsands Pipeline
TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline is officially dead. Announced via press release on Thursday, the news confirmed long-held suspicions that the $15.7 billion, 4,500 km oilsands pipeline simply wouldn’t cut it…
Important www.warrenkinsella.com alert!
Canada’s Best-Loved Political Web Site™, https://t.co/WjfUnhChjo, going down this weekend for a bit. Big changes afoot! — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 6, 2017