listening to joni: a new wmtc feature
Two new books about Joni Mitchell have come out, with — strangely — the same title. Reckless Daughter: A Joni Mitchell Anthology, edited by Barney Hoskyns, is a collection of…
November 2017
Maori All Blacks welcomed to Vancouver by First Nations and City of Vancouver
Group photo at Britannia Secondary
Conscientious Objection shouldn’t mean dereliction of duty
Canada passed a law in June 2016 to make legal and to offer protection to the providers of medically assisted dying. Let’s just pretend for a moment that “Medically Assisted…
I’m President. Why Can’t I Prosecute My Enemies?
America’s Thug in Chief bristles at the fact that he cannot use “his” government to prosecute whomever he likes, as in Hillary Clinton. Trump doesn’t seem very comfortable with this…
Oh Dear. How Will Trump Square this Circle?
Donald Trump screwed up, big time. He forgot to get Congress to repeal the US Global Change Research Act of 1990. And, today, that earned the Mango Mussolini a swift…
Nov. 3: Okay. Get mad at me.
We’ll begin with an old joke. (Nothing that follows it is at all funny.) It was about a newsflash that played over TV many years ago in Montreal. Terrible train…
Faint Hope
These days good news on climate change is hard to find. Yet recent progress by major emitters, specifically China, give hope that the world might just meet the Paris Climate…
Memo to Andrew Scheer: If you don’t support human rights for LGBT people, you’re a hypocrite for complaining about disrespect for the religious
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer (Justin Tang/Canadian Press) Conservative leader Andrew Scheer has opposed equality and human rights for LGBT people on every occasion he possibly could.When LGBT people have faced…
Governor-General, apologize
One month into her new job as Canada’s Governor General, Julie Payette is taking on fake news and bogus science. Payette was the keynote speaker at the ninth annual Canadian…
Why British Columbians Should Demand a Public Inquiry on the Site C Dam
For years British Columbians have been left in the dark about the most expensive public project in our history. All of that came to an end on Wednesday when the…
Where Nazi Germany Refined the Art of Racism and White Supremacy
Hard as this to accept, Hitler’s Germany seems to have taken many of its cues on building the Aryan state by exploring how the American south organized its white supremacist…
The Fatness is live!
My fourth novel is available as of today! It’s a satire about concentration camps for fat people and bureaucracy gone mad. (Don’t worry, it’s a love story.) This crazy book…
Site C Twitter recap
I'd like to see a full inquiry as to how BC Hydro execs and previous BC gov't conspired to manufacture the case for #SiteC — Marc Lee (@MarcLeeCCPA) November 1,…
Making fun of people who you think are beneath you
One night, we were gathered around the kitchen table in Calgary, me and my pals were, and my Dad was listening to us. The conversation turned to astrology. I started…
Mary, Mary, What Have You Done?
Michael Harris asks a really good question: What, exactly, is Mary Dawson doing? It’s time to either get serious about people who violate the ethical rules that govern elected officials…
The Day Donald Trump’s Twitter Feed Disappeared
As Robert Mueller closes in on Donald Trump, the Orange Oaf has been tweeting up a storm, hoping to distract Americans from his crime family's problems. And while many of…
A wild first week back at Alberta’s Legislative Assembly
Photo: Premier Rachel Notley rallies her NDP Caucus MLAs before the start of the fall legislative sitting on Oct. 30, 2017. (photo by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta Flickr) NDP focus…
Too much overtime owed may have saved former PC staffers’ jobs as UCP purged their Wildrose counterparts
PHOTOS: Nick Koolsbergen, new chief of staff to United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney. (Photo: Lorian Belanger/Radio-Canada.) Below: UCP Deputy Chief of Staff Matt Wolf (Photo: Linkedin), UCP communications staffer…