Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Thomas Frank asks how we’ve allowed billionaires to escape any responsibility for the maintenance of civilization by moving their wealth offshore: I know…
November 2017
Musical interlude
Phantogram – Don’t Move
In Praise Of Critical Thinking
Here are five resources that can aid us in what really is a life-long journey: Recommend this Post
And the Prize for "Least Affordable City in North America" Goes To…
Yeah, Vancouver, the city where your kids have zero chance of being able to afford to live where they were born and raised. Thanks, Ottawa, you assholes and, by “assholes”…
Why Ottawa and Edmonton Must Move Now Against Tar Sands Operators
Federal and Alberta governments have created a nightmare in Athabasca, a massive environmental catastrophe in waiting. The threat comes from toxic tailing ponds so huge they’re visible to the naked…
The "Bought and Paid For" Tax Reform Bill
The menacing face of Congressional corruption is being exposed in the Republican’s tax reform bill. They can’t hide it any longer. They’re bought and paid for, have been for some…
Fracking Company Ordered to Drain Two Unauthorized Dams in B.C.’s Northeast
The provincial government has ordered Progress Energy to drain virtually all of the water trapped behind two massive dams the company built in violation of key provincial regulations. The company…
Well That’s Not Very Polite
In the pages of the world press Justin Trudeau has suddenly gone from pretty boy to bad boy. Our prime minister has made waves by purportedly sabotaging the Trans Pacific…
Growth as Theft, Ch. 2
The previous item, reposted from December, 2011, addresses growth as theft. The subject also came up today in an item in The Guardian.In the medieval legend made famous by the…
Alectra says no: The Block screwed us again
The headline on the media release reads, “Alectra selling its shares in Collus PowerStream to Collingwood.” What it should add is that Collingwood residents and taxpayers were betrayed by members…
To Bee Or Not To Bee
That, Micheal Harris writes, is the question. There simply are a lot fewer of them around: Plos One, a Europe-based Open Access multidisciplinary journal, published a stunning report this year…
The Pee Tape Story Comes Back To Haunt Donald Trump
It's been almost a year since Donald Trump was presented with a top secret dossier, that included an unsubstantiated report that he was being blackmailed by the Russians. The chiefs…
Roy Moore: Another Homophobe Bites The Dust
I have always believed that in the sweaty core of every homophobic religious fanatic there lurks a monstrous pervert.And the case of Roy Moore, a Republican senatorial candidate in Alabama,…
A travesty of travellers.
The dynamic duo of Trump and Trudeau are meeting in south-east Asia this weekend. Neither has the other on their agenda. And neither has a similar agenda. They have different…
Listen to the pilot of the Daveberta Podcast
In a first of what we expect to be a regular feature, I have joined forces with conservative political commentator Ryan Hastman in launching the Daveberta podcast. In our pilot…
Abandon hope, all UCP who enter here? Ted Byfield may have opened the gates to Lake of Fire 2.0
PHOTOS: Social conservative publisher and ideologue Ted Byfield (Photo: Screenshot of Youtube Video). Below: United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney, NDP Education Minister David Eggen, and Calgary-West UCP MLA Mike…
Recycled Stuff
This from December 24, 2011. Time to Break Our Growth Addiction Imagine being trapped in a society that considers heretical the notion of living within its finite means. That is…
Jason Kenney and the Secret Gay-Straight Alliance Agenda
Despite pledging to build a big tent conservative party, Jason Kenney and his United Conservative Party MLAs appear to be doing their best this week to define themselves as the…
Punk News launches Recipe For Hate/SFH Kinda Suck contest!
Right here! It’s a momentous fall for Warren Kinsella, the Toronto-based author, lawyer, political consultant, and veteran punk musician. This November sees both the release of his new novel Recipe…
Montreal’s first female mayor represents new chapter in city’s rich history
Valérie Plante, recently elected the first woman mayor of Montreal, represents a fairly radical but highly creative force in Quebec politics, argues Harold R. Chorney, a Professor of Political Economy…