Engagement Is Always Preferable
There is a strong argument to be made for engagement rather than confrontation. Until we are willing to show at least a modicum of tolerance for the views of others,…
November 2017
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday November 14 2017. Today we are talking about Employment Law. For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, Wills, Estates,…
Andrew Scheer’s Monstrous New Ad Campaign
I knew that it wouldn't be long before Hamish Marshall, who once worked for Ezra Levant's hate mongering rag The Rebel, would start telling Andrew Scheer what to do.In his…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Rupert Neate reports on a new Credit Suisse study showing that the 1% owns half of the world’s wealth. And Heather Long…
Roy Moore and the Religious Perverts
I can't imagine a more satisfying situation, or justice more divine.Roy Moore, the homophobic bigot who likes to portray himself as a God's gift to America, now being accused of…
A Return To Pre-Revolutionary France
Paul Krugman has written a blistering analysis of what the Republicans call tax “reform.” They’re using the same arguments that George W. Bush used to sell his tax plan. But…
15,000 Scientists Want to Change Climate Change
They want to stabilize the change and, ideally, change the trajectory we’re on. Climate change is happening faster than predicted and the positive feedback loops have started (meaning that it’s…
Column: when going neg goes wrong
Go neg, sure. But don’t fib. The Working Families group has a new ad out. If you live in Ontario, you’ve likely seen it. If you don’t, you haven’t. But…
Chuckles’ Canned Conservatism.
In discussing the ebbing strength of the democracy of Canada’s Conservative parties yesterday, we never got to the major problem faced by the federal Conservatives. Their problem is one of…
Corporate media works for some but not for its audience
Earlier this year, American Bernie Sanders warned us about the failures of corporate media. In How Corporate Media Threatens Democracy, he wrote: …For years, major crises like climate change, the…
Will the Alberta Together takeover turn the Alberta Party into PC 2.0?
Photo: Alberta Party leader Greg Clark on the campaign trail in Calgary-Elbow in 2014. Source: Twitter. In the latest shakeup in Alberta politics, Greg Clark announced last Friday that he…
Who benefits more from the PC takeover of the Alberta Party – the governing NDP or the Opposition UCP?
PHOTOS: Opposition members in the Alberta Legislature as seen by many of their critics. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons.) Actual UCP Caucus members may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: Outgoing Alberta…
The Closed Nature of the UCP Kenney Party
I've been doing some reading about values and mindsets and applying some of these learnings to political organizations and trends. In the previous post I spoke about Arrested, Closed and…
The Closed Nature of the UCP Kenney Party
I've been doing some reading about values and mindsets and applying some of these learnings to political organizations and trends. In the previous post I spoke about Arrested, Closed and…
The Closed Nature of the UCP Kenney Party
I’ve been doing some reading about values and mindsets and applying some of these learnings to political organizations and trends. In the previous post I spoke about Arrested, Closed and…
Consciousness
Consciousness seems to be mysterious to most people. How does subjective experience arise? What is the relation between the perception of redness, say, or the thought that “Paris is the…
Hopelessly Criminalizing BDS Only Augments Its Impact
Photo by Jonny White Imagine a natural disaster in Israel, after which city officials demand that victims sign a form swearing never to boycott Iceland before they can receive aid.…
U.S. Spent $5.6 Trillion Killing People in Middle East and Asia: Study
As the U.S. prepares to send more troops to Afghanistan to combat ISIS and the Taliban, and the specter of a war hangs over every tweet the President writes about…
Is Trump Steering America Away From Democracy?
The headline in Foreign Policy, “Trump Isn’t Sure if Democracy is Better Than Autocracy,” is jarring. It would be so much less troubling if America wasn’t already so far down…
New Mass Resistance as Spanish State Jails Catalan Ministers
Photo by Joan Campderrós-i-Canas Judge Carmen Lamela of Spain’s National High Court – direct descendant of the fascist Franco-era Court of Public Order – took the war of the Spanish…