The lower your social class, the ‘wiser’ you are, suggests new study (repost)
There’s an apparent paradox in modern life: Society as a whole is getting smarter, yet we aren’t any closer to figuring out how to all get along. Read the rest…
December 2017
When the place is open and no one is there to serve you, should you wait or walk out?
So. About this. Nick Kouvalis is in the news. Nick Kouvalis has been advised to have no comment. As a lawyer, I don’t disagree with that. But Canada’s Best-Loved Political…
Dec. 27: Halleluja for the irving press!
Well, the local and world news were the usual, brainless trash. And the commentary from The Fraser Institute was disgusting even by the standards of The Fraser Institute. (The propaganda…
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
I finally got to this pocket-sized book, which is full of lessons passed down from my folks that I’ve been saying for decades, and many others that I’m hearing over…
Six Natural Resource Projects That Got it Right in 2017
Being an environmental journalist at this point in history can be a bit, well, depressing. It often means bringing negative stories to light: stories about government failing to balance development…
The Last Jedi is centrist slop masquerading as radical sci-fi
Image by Disney This article contains spoilers. The Last Jedi, the eighth episode of the legendary Star Wars series, has been out for less than 10 days but already boasts…
The Permanent Lie, Our Deadliest Threat
Illustration by Mr. Fish The most ominous danger we face does not come from the eradication of free speech through the obliteration of net neutrality or through Google algorithms that…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Eduardo Porter examines how high-end tax cuts create gains for only the wealthy few. And Lydia DePillis points out that decades of increases…
Ain’t No Daddy At All
Much has been written about the return to fascism under Donald Trump. But, Henry Giroux writes, not much ink has been spilled on the subject of Trump’s war on children:…
How The Con Media Is Trying To Praise Andrew Scheer
As I wrote the other day, the Con media is finding it harder and harder to attack Justin Trudeau, because they've been doing it for so long nobody is paying…
Collingwood’s culture of secrecy
For the past fifteen months, I have been trying to get a copy of the Request For Proposals (RFP) sent out to potential buyers for the purchase of our public…
Brought to you by Bollywood?
In reviewing the three leaders of the major political parties in Canada, we came up with what we consider the key question for Jagmeet Singh: Why? What is the new…
Today marks the 10th anniversary of AlbertaPolitics.ca – which presumably makes this blog an Internet institution!
PHOTOS: Part of the original header on this blog, back in its St. Albert Diary days, which ran from the last week of 2007 to mid-2009. The blog, of course,…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Festive cats.
The Future Is Bright
For plastics, that is. For the rest of us, not so much. Despite the terrible environmental problems posed by plastic pollution, The Guardian reports that the future will see more…
Nellie McClung and the challenge of history
Up until a few weeks ago, if I was asked my impression of Nellie McClung I probably would have said “oh, she was that suffragette, right? The one people say…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Economic Policy Institute charts how inequality and precarity are growing in the U.S. – and how that can be directly traced…
Will They Do It?
Eugene Robinson writes that many people feared what would happen in the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency. It turns out that the year was worse than they feared: Many…
The best and worst of Canadian politics in 2017
It’s a cliché, sure. It’s hackneyed and overdone, true. It has been done a million times, agreed. But it’s fun: the columnist’s year-end political winner/loser list! And, this year, regular…