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November 2017
Is Trudeau ready for a Middle East war?
Photo by Women Deliver 2019 The world is now at the mercy of a coalition of three of the most dangerous autocrats on the planet: Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and…
Taseko’s Contaminated Water Discharge into Fraser River Prompts Resignation of Community From Mine Group
The Cariboo Chilcotin Conservation Society (CCCS) abruptly resigned this month from the Technical Advisory Committee that keeps tabs on water discharges from Taseko’s Gibraltar Mine, the second-largest open-pit copper mine…
Henry Rollins worked with Charles Manson
That headline isn’t clickbait. It’s the truth. This revelation first came out about seven years ago, but I missed it. In the wake of Manson’s (deserved, overdue) death, it has…
Chris Hedges Looks at The True North.
The first two words give it away, “Pity Canada.”Chris Hedges looks at Canada and sees us succumbing to the U.S. contagion only behind the mask of moderation. On reading this…
Louis Pauly on Clarkson’s Great Transformation
Louis w. Pauley The following is a contribution in the blog series on the exceptional contribution of Stephen Clarkson to Canada. Stephen Clarkson died in 2016. This piece is by…
Ego Is No Substitute For Intellect
Word has it that NAFTA re-negotiations are not going well. Robert Samuelson writes that’s because Donald Trump has misdiagnosed the problem: What made America great in the 1950s and 1960s…
Fighting Myths of the 1%
Income inequality has been growing since the 2008 self-inflicted bank chaos, indeed that banking stupidity from 2008 accelerated the growing gap. The inequity was so obvious that the Occupy Wall…
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of November 20, 2017
140Law: Here are our Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of November 20, 2017. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
Andrew Cooper on Stephen Clarkson’s Foreign Policy
The following is a contribution in the blog series on the exceptional contribution of Stephen Clarkson to Canada. Stephen Clarkson died in 2016. This piece is by Andrew F. Cooper,…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of November 20, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 20, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: White House reportedly mulls asking judicial nominees to refuse interviews with ABA…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – George Monbiot writes that the erosion of government for the public good stands to lead to an authoritarian state: All that remain as…
Postmedia writes up Recipe For Hate!
As seen in: Calgary Herald Leader-Post Montreal Gazette Windsor Star Kingston Whig Standard Vancouver Sun Canada.com Not bad!
Donald Trump’s Deeply Disturbing Twitter Weekend
Even by Donald Trump's insanely low standards, his behaviour on Twitter in the last 48 hours couldn't be more deranged and deeply disturbing.Firing out tweets in every direction as if…
A Quick Definition of Neo-Liberalism
In response to Alex Usher (and in anticipation of future posts in his series): This is an interesting start, though I would have hoped for a more tightly bound definition…
The Surrender of Socialism.
For what began as a socialist dream on the Prairies during the Great Depression, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and its successor New Democratic Party (NDP) have seen little success…
When a change is not a change: the NDP and Muskrat Falls #nlpoli #cdnpoli
One newsroom. Two different interpretations of federal NDP leader Jagmeet Sing’s position on Muskrat Falls. In Sarah Smellie’s online story, Singh had a few concerns and is “not comfortable” with…
THE ONTARIO CORONER’S CYCLING REPORT: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE TAKEAWAY
I bike in Toronto. I’ve been hit by a car (and walked away), slipped on street car tracks, cussed out and been cussed out. It’s a great way to get…
Giorgio Mammoliti and the abuse of language
In his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language”, George Orwell explains how the political use of language is more often employed to obscure meaning than to illuminate it. In…
Confusing weather with climate in the UK Riots
Over at Macleans OnCampus, Robyn Urback shrugs off the political and social causes and implications of the UK riots. Fair enough; you can make a reasoned argument in that direction,…