Dancing With the Devil
Photo by Roscoe Myrick Dystopia is finally here, but we seem to have our sides mixed up as of late. We live in a time when Homeland Security and the…
2017
Not Your Grandfather’s Antifascism (repost)
Following the clashes in Charlottesville and the massive anti-fascist demonstrations afterwards in Durham, Boston, and the Bay Area, the struggle against fascism has arrived in the consciousness of the general…
The Men Who Left Were White (repost)
There are three things you should know. First: I’m not biracial. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The Men Who Left Were White
We are the losers, who are the winners?
Brady Yauch is an economist at the Consumer Policy Institute (CPI), which identifies itself as “an independent think-tank dedicated to achieving lower costs and greater efficiencies for Canadian consumers, particularly…
NPR Interview on Silicon Valley and journalism
I was recently on NPR’s new national show 1A discussing how Silicon Valley is shaping journalism. Part 1 is here, and part 2 (responding after the interview with Facebook’s Campbell…
Nazi rag publisher, editor criminal case to start later this month
Breaking! Your Ward News neo-Nazis being brought back to court to face uttering threats criminal charges by month's end. Finally! #TOpoli #onpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 7, 2017
He Takes A Nice Selfie, But Secrecy Is His Real Forté
Those of us who follow politics fairly closely know that there is frequently less than meets the eye in the Trudeau government. Certainly, the Prime Minister talks a reasonably good…
There’s Your Problem
New Price Coming Soon Back before I cut the cable I would sometimes watch a show called “beach front bargain hunters” or something along those lines. For two or three…
Improved Air Conditioner Beams Heat Into Space
Air conditioner suck up a lot of energy in hotter months by dumping heat from inside buildings to the outside, ironically heating up neighbouring locations. A Stanford research team developed…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday September 7, 2017. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. An estate trustee is entitled to be paid for…
Red field
I don’t know what these things mean. I just draw ’em. Filed under: art
The Hollow President
E. J. Dionne has Donald Trump’s number. He writes in The Washington Post: One of the most cynical quotations in history is also one of the most widely attributed. Let’s…
French Labor Reform Attempts to Remove Labor Union Protection
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:19937:French-Labor-Reform-Attempts-to-Remove-Labor-Union-Protection Filed under: Uncategorized
Letter we sent to Ontario’s Attorney-General, the Premier’s Office, and Toronto’s lead Crown Attorney
About this issue, here and here and here. Contrary to what we had been told, and contrary to what we had been promised, we have not heard from any Crown…
Andrew Scheer and the Religious Extremists
It's hard to believe, it's so bizarre it boggles the mind. It's like Andrew Scheer is getting his marching orders straight from Donald Trump or his Godzilla.For it has only…
New column day
Here, on how little Brad Wall and the Saskatchewan Party ultimately seem to have learned from the fall of Grant Devine and the PCs. For further reading…– Geoff Leo continues…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Matthew Hoffmann discusses the reality that addressing climate change will require substantial changes to how we currently live – but that we…
By Jingo, by Trump.
That little putz with the freaky haircut who fronts for the North Korean generals is likely to lose his idiot smirk. American President Donald Trump seems to have run out…