It’s Official – the Rich are Eating the Poor
Just in time for the Republican’s “Bugger the Poor” tax reform, a study has been released that US lawmakers have been raiding the poor to funnel wealth to the wealthiest.…
2017
in which i achieve a career milestone
I am a Senior Librarian! It’s a position I have aspired to for quite a while. Although I love my current job as a youth librarian, I’ve been ready to…
B.C. Coughs Up Fracking Report Four Years Late and Only After It Was Leaked to Journalist
Hundreds of gas wells could be leaking methane and potentially contaminating groundwater, according to a B.C. Oil and Gas Commission (OGC) report that has been kept secret from the public…
Musical interlude
Fluke – Pulsed
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Marco Chown Oved, Toby Heaps and Michael Yow discuss the long-term transition away from meaningful corporate tax contributions to Canada’s public purse: For…
Have the Greens Gone AWOL?
She used to be a firebrand, holding the government’s feet to the fire, a burr under their saddle. but you don’t hear much from Green Party leader, Elizabeth May, these…
Review: Policing Black Lives
I commented in some social media context or other before I had read this book that I thought it would likely be one of the most important books published in…
NDP Government’s Site C Math a Flunk, Say Project Financing Experts
The NDP government’s arithmetic on Site C cancellation costs is “deeply flawed,” has “no logic at all,” and is “appalling,” according to three project financing experts. Eoin Finn, a retired…
Canada’s Conscription Election: One Hundred Years Ago
During the First World War, on December 17, 1917, Canadians elected a federal government that backed the decision of the government of Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden to conscript men…
Canada’s Conscription Election: One Hundred Years Ago
During the First World War, on December 17, 1917, Canadians elected a federal government that backed the decision of the government of Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden to conscript men…
Canada’s Conscription Election: One Hundred Years Ago
During the First World War, on December 17, 1917, Canadians elected a federal government that backed the decision of the government of Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden to conscript men…
It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way
Should he find the federal leadership of the NDP not to his taste, I suspect that Jagmeet Singh has more than one career option to fall back on. He could,…
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
If the Dems can hold onto these numbers, something seismic is going to happen to Congress.
DoFo Hoho NoMo
You can’t shine Shinola, Ramona. Nice Ford Nation bumpersticker, BTW. A poll suggesting Doug Ford trails Mayor John Tory by single digits ahead of next fall’s election is “flawed” and…
SFH shows up on SNL
Not, really, but this is what it would be like if we did a political gig.
The OJ Defence
Republicans have Robert Mueller in their sites. They plan to mount the OJ Defence. Michael Harris reminds his readers how it worked: Instead of allowing the prosecution to try their…
Trudeau plays to the home crowd.
Surprise, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau played it safe the other day. He appointed Quebec’s Richard Wagner as chief justice of the Supreme Court. We Canadians have had little chance to…
Stephen Harper, Pierre Poilievre, and the Great Terrorist Scam
It's easy to forget the past, in the age of Trump, when the truth is so easily buried under a daily avalanche of excrement and insanity.But two years ago, at…
As expected, UCP Leader Jason Kenney chalks up another convincing win in Calgary-Lougheed by-election
PHOTOS: UCP Leader Jason Kenney celebrates his victory in the Calgary-Lougheed by-election last night (Photo: CBC). Below: NDP candidate Phillip van der Merwe, Liberal leader and candidate David Khan, and…
When the line between civil and uncivil becomes blurred bullying can’t be far behind
For two nights this week Commissioners and the public discussed a report on swimming opportunities in Vancouver. Sounds like a fairly innocuous subject. Planning staff, along with hired consultants, wrote…