2017
This week’s column: scheerly you’re mistaken
So, Andrew Scheer shuffled his “shadow cabinet” last week. It was newsworthy only in that it reminded us that the newly minted Conservative Party leader is, you know, not dead.…
A Bad News Day
A couple of days ago, some unqualified bootlicker (director of 5 corporations) wrote a column for the irving press in praise of privatizing some of our medical services. And –…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Labour Day reading. – Ed Finn offers a reminder of the rights and benefits we now take for granted which were won only through labour organization:…
A Resistance Movement for the Planet
Climate change is out of control. It is already too late to avoid soaring temperatures, scarce water, and extreme weather. But the financial structure of capitalism is tied to fossil…
Hey, I know: let’s put David Duke’s name on the side of a school
Indigenous people are "savages" who should be institutionalized and forced to adopt the ways of "white men." Who said it? — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) September 4, 2017
John Heaney, Social Blemish
Rachel Notley’s Chief of Staff – who replaced my friend Brian and will be replaced by my friend Nathan – is heading “home” to B.C. I say “home” because we…
If this had happened in the US, people would’ve heard about it
A violent neo-Nazi group’s leader gets close enough to a Prime Minister to trick him into signing a Nazi flag. In the US, there’d be a congressional inquiry into this,…
Not A Good Thing
The short version: at this year’s stampede Calgary Blood & Honour Member (“Leader”?) Kyle McKee got close enough to PM Justin Trudeau to have him autograph what turned out to…
Now Will The CBC Finally Fire Rex Murphy?
Rex Murphy has always been a grubby right-wing demagogue, and a ghastly Con if ever there was one. For years he has recycled Con talking points, and other material dredged…
North Korea’s Nukes
Over the weekend, North Korea claimed to have tested a hydrogen bomb. The test, Michael Harris writes, brought universal condemnation: Britain’s foreign minister, Boris Johnson, slammed Kim Jong-un for his…
Fear of Ford.
Is he, or isn’t he? Is Doug Ford running for the mayoralty in Toronto next year or for the Progressive Conservatives in the provincial election? And who cares anyway? Oddly…
labour day 2017: demand more
CUPE Ontario’s striking new graphic urges us to be brave, to be bold, and to demand more. Those two words — demand more — deserve our attention. Every single law…
Celebrating a different kind of Labour Day in Alberta – one with something to celebrate!
PHOTOS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and friend with unionized firefighters at last year’s Edmonton and District Labour Council Labour Day BBQ. Below: Alberta Federation of Labour President Gil McGowan at…
How Truth Dies
The UCP leadership race just began and already we’re being asked to choose between two conflicting versions of the truth. Jason Kenney says Brian Jean is a poor financial manager…
Labour Day – Canadian heritage moment – Rerun
In modern times, the Canadian union movement has lost influence but not relevance. It is easy to forget that unions enabled a broad middle class. Workers in unionized company towns…
The Return of Stuff Happens, week 33: Water, water, everywhere …
Houston and much of Texas was devastated this week by Hurricane Harvey, or Wally, or Larry, or whatever it was called. (Note to the people who name hurricanes: if you…
Disguised B&H Leader McKee Gets Far To Close To Prime Minister Trudeau
I haven't written a great deal about Calgary's Blood & Honour, though I have been keeping an eye on them. For the most part their public profile has been relatively…
Nuclear war singalong
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