#Thee Too
If Harvey Weinstein did anything good in his life it may be the role he played in bringing sexual harassment of women to the forefront. Harvey did a lot to…
November 2017
It’s 15,000 Voices This Time. The Message is the Same. Change or Die.
In 1992, 1500 scientists warned the world to change or die. 25-years later it’s the same message only this time it carries the signatures of 15,000 scientists. This new cautioning…
Nov. 13: a slow news day
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/teenage-girls-migrants-dead-mediterranean-sea-women-found-italy-police-investigation-libya-europe-a8041856.html I began with this one because this is just one, small sample about the horror of refugees. The number in the news usually runs to a couple of thousand…
Comey Goes Biblical on Trump’s Ass
Former FBI director, James Comey, is using Trump’s favourite medium, Twitter, to fight back against the Mango Mussolini. In one of his latest tweets, he quoted a sermon from the…
A Britain Great No Longer
Between Brexit and Trump, Britain has become Great no more. At least that’s how Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair’s chief of staff from 1995 to 2007 sees it. The worst part,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Steve Burgess points out that we shouldn’t be the least bit surprise by the latest news of politically-connected billionaires managing to tilt the…
Top 10 Legal Headline for the week of November 13, 2017
140Law: Here are our Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of November 13, 2017. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law…
It’s Not Just the Depth of the Challenge, It’s the Magnitude.
Let this idea soak in for a minute. A report from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research concludes that Europe’s only hope of meeting its Paris greenhouse gas emissions…
Impossible To Ignore
I have noticed a shift lately on the part of the ultra-right. Instead of denying climate change, increasing numbers are ‘admitting’ that the climate may be changing, but they have…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of November 13, 2017
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 13, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: Blue-chip law firm Appleby explored connecting tax haven to Halifax, leaked documents…
Why Does The Con Media Hate Justin Trudeau So Much?
Well it's now been two days since the Con media went after Justin Trudeau for allegedly sabotaging a trade deal by missing a meeting. In what can only be described…
Baby, you’re a rich man
It’s hard to keep track of political revelations in the Trump era, true. But back in August. you may recall that The New Yorker’s award-winning political writer, Ryan Lizza, published…
NASA Designs Plane Modifications to Save Fuel
A seemingly simple change to airplane design can make a huge difference in fuel efficiency: add another engine. Yes, as counterintuitive as it sounds, NASA has figured out that by…
Stunning
Ed Broadbent has the numbers on what a tax structure tilted towards the rich costs: According to a recent study in the Canadian Tax Journal, the top 1 per cent…
Diminished democracy of Canada’s Conservatives.
In looking at the major political parties in Canada in their headlong dash for irrelevancy, we might as well start with the Conservatives. Since the end of the 90s and…
Dr. Hedges Diagnoses the Disease That Is Neoliberal Globalism.
Chris Hedges writes that, in order to fully grasp the disease of neoliberalism, it helps to take stock of the symptoms. The disease of globalized corporate capitalism has the same…
The war between Vietnamese fishermen and the KKK signaled a new type of white supremacy (repost)
It was shrimping season in Texas, and things were getting ugly. In the late 1970s and early 80s, a group of Vietnamese refugees had fled a humanitarian crisis at home…
Dead fascist poets society: why CasaPound are no book club (repost)
The liberal commentariat seems to be completely unable to resist the allure of the far-right. The latest example: an article on Literary Hub that portrays violent neo-fascist gang CasaPound as…
Question Period? Really?
How much longer do we have to put up with this nonsense? The Alberta Legislature has been in session for eight days and the UCP is using Question Period to…
Massive Anti-Racism March and Rally in Montreal
So, how did you spend your Sunday? I myself did some laundry, took some screen shots of Stephen Myatt’s impotent threats (more on that in an upcoming article), and hit…