Bannon Out?
Donald Trump has apparently given Steve Bannon his pink slip. President Donald Trump on Friday fired Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist in the latest high-level White House shake-up, removing…
2017
Good riddance, you racist bastard
https://t.co/eMS1pMz1gv — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 18, 2017
Post-Rebel Journalism Needs To Become A Recognized Profession
The ongoing collapse of Ezra Levant's "The Rebel" (no links provided – I will not link to what I consider a hate site) makes one thing abundantly clear to me:…
Assange Went Hard on Hillary, Limp on the Kremlin
A lot of people started smelling a rat when Julian Assange went a little bizarre during his latter years holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Something wasn’t right.…
On the Absurdist Victory: All is Well
A while back I wrote about a video comparing Stoicism and Existentialism. The video also touched on different psychology principles developed from each philosophy. Stoicism is easily seen in CBT…
A Brilliant Idea from a Time Long Past
Ancient Arab cultures were known for great advances in science and mathematics. With the intervention of Alexander this led to the great library of Alexandria, actually two libraries. Julius Caesar…
When Snowflakes Melt
You have probably seen or heard the story about this nazi, but this short video from The Young Turks explains it best.
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Leo Gerard calls for an end to trade deals designed to favour the wealthy at the expense of everybody else. And Rick Salutin…
On Fascist Movements and Free Speech
Some people are upset because Ryerson cancelled a panel discussion featuring Faith Goldy, of Rebel Media, who openly expresses the belief that Muslims are a problem in our country. A…
Eating up the Hill: Chimichanga at Pancho Villa
Since we’re in the summer, I’ll venture a little outside a few-block radius of Parliament Hill for my food blogging. Today’s entry took me to Elgin and Frank for a…
A Very, Very Timely Message
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a timely and very powerful message for Donald Trump and his racist supporters: If you go to the YouTube page where this video is posted, you will…
He Cannot Be Coddled
After Charlottesville, Michael Harris writes, Donald Trump becomes the touchstone by which we judge our own politicians: The Trump White House isn’t the only North American political institution that has…
The Mad King of America.
You have to admit that it has been a summer of bounty for those who comment on politics. We have started to think of it as the Summer of Trump.…
Faith Goldy and The Rebel Meltdown
She was Ezra Levant's pet and Andrew Scheer's favourite Rebel journalist talking head. And for good reason.She's a religious fanatic like Scheer, she calls him "our people," she once demanded…
A Very, Very, Bad Week For Ezra Levant and "The Rebel"
That may very well be a huge understatement: ‘That’s just racist’: Ezra Levant distances The Rebel from alt-right as contributors resign Conservatives Finally Ditching The Rebel Have a Lot to…
UCP leaders edge away from Rebel Media after NDP House Leader rips their cozy past with alt-right group
PHOTOS: NDP House Leader Brian Mason, one of the fiercest fighters in Premier Rachel Notley’s government, ripped into UCP leadership contenders Jason Kenney and Brian Jean yesterday for their long…
Is the FOX News/Donald Trump Lap Dance On the Rocks?
Some dude named James Murdoch has taken a sharp stick to Donald Trump. Murdoch, son of Beelzebub Murdoch, really unloaded on the Cheeto Benito for his infuriating pronouncements on the…
The Inner Trump – Deutsche Welle
A timely article in Deutsche Well explores what Hanna Arendt would have made of Donald Trump. It’s less and yet much more than you might have imagined but Arendt’s philosophy…
Taking credit for the work of others
A short while ago, I received an unsolicited email from the interim (and soon to be departing) CAO, John Brown, with the subject, “Ideas. Observations. Musings . Opinions . Facts ?”…
Smoke over the skies of North America is another climate change warning
Photo by Jonathan Hayward For nearly two weeks, beginning August 1, the skies over Vancouver were filled with the smoke of forest fires burning in central and northern British Columbia.…