Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Linda McQuaig writes that it’s long past time to review our tax system to make sure it isn’t unfairly leaking money to the…
2017
George Monbiot’s Way Out of Neoliberalism
This is a ditch we’ll never get out of without first having a clear idea of just how we got in. Watch it and you’ll hear some very interesting thoughts…
Dear CBC and assorted book publishers
Forgive me for me being a tad critical, but two things. One, they are not “anti-immigrant protesters,” CBC. They are white supremacists. Get it right. Wake the Hell up. Two,…
The Block are privatizing our public assets
So Brian and his Block minions want to sell our airport. Our publicly-owned asset. And they’re doing it without even the pretence of the courtesy to tell us why. No…
Saturday Photo: Stars on Earth–Asters
Before the rain we had on Thursday, our little front yard was filled with bouquets of native asters. The flowers are a lovely shade of mauve, and bloom at the…
Donald Trump and the Bloody Racism of America
Donald Trump likes to claim he's not a racist, despite all the evidence to the contrary.He likes to claim it's all about saving the white people's heritage, or stopping black…
Donald Trump’s Criminal Katrina Moment
The pictures out of the stricken island of Puerto Rico are stunning and heartbreaking. And what you can't see is worse.Millions of desperate people without food and water, with no…
Not In Trump’s Circle
This was the week Donald Trump clarified who he’s working for. Richard Wolf writes: Twice this week, when given the choice between his wealthy buddies and the working Americans he…
Toronto’s Tory talks the talk.
It was Doug Ford’s challenge. He actually asked Toronto Mayor John Tory to rename Etobicoke’s Centennial Stadium after his late brother Rob. It is very hard to say whether Tory—considering…
Goudreau’s Peterborough Rally Already Unintentionally Hilarious
When ARC decides to write a story on Kevin Goudreau, it is usually, and justifiably, because he needs to be mercilessly made fun of because dear GOD does he deserve…
Finally, A Politician Speaking For Her People
You have had, I am sure, many experiences throughout your lives when you have met people and, based only on very limited contact, have concluded they are people of integrity,…
Musical interlude
The Stills – I’m With You
Federal Freedom of Information in Canada Worse Now Than Under Harper: New Report
The federal government received a failing grade in a new national audit of freedom of information regimes across Canada. The vast majority of federal departments under the Liberal government, which…
Buy high, sell low – make up losses with volume
Originally published in December 2014. Is B.C.’s Site C dam a gateway to dirty energy?, Calyn Shaw, CBC News Network, December 22, 2014 The provincial government has made it clear…
Q&A with Andrew Weaver: The Future of B.C. Energy Beyond Site C and LNG
B.C. Green Party leader Andrew Weaver was never a big fan of LNG, he says, because he never thought the BC Liberal plan for a multi-billion domestic natural gas export…
And people ask me if I’m still with her
Always. And she is the real president. Always.
Sept. 29: Nuclear war. It’s now or never for the U.S.
(A reader has warned me that the web sites I list do not open up when readers click on them. Actually, they do; but it is a little awkward. Readers…
To Live and Die In the Divided States of America
Paul Krugman wonders what the death toll will be. Not from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma or Maria but from Donald Trump’s malignant narcissism. According to a new Quinnipiac poll, a majority…
Vancouver park index aims to improve mental health: UBC study
Researchers map quality and accessibility of parks in Vancouver By: Wanyee Li Metro Published on Thu Sep 28 2017 More than four in five residents in the Lower Mainland live…
A Billion Dollars a Day, Every Day
360 billion dollars a year or roughly a billion a day, every day. That’s what the United States can/should expect in losses from climate change, according to a new report.…