To Be Expected
Over a decade ago a few academics suggested that the 21st would be a “century of revolution.” The premise was simple – societies cannot go through what confronts us without…
2017
Are There Cracks In The Liberal Fortress?
Justin Trudeau and his band of sunny men and women have had, up to this point at least, a pretty easy ride with the Canadian electorate. After years of darkness…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The Center for Economic Performance finds (PDF) that increased inequality and concentration among firms in an industry exacerbates disparities in wealth while…
The Sims Freeplay true story about baby & tips
The Sims FreePlay really is totally free to download and install, as well as ad-free also. That doesn’t indicate customers won’t always end up investing some loan on it, but…
Empowering Labour
NAFTA is going to be re-negotiated. That’s fine with Linda McQuaig, so long as workers get a piece of the action. She writes: In reality, NAFTA has been key to…
Donald Trump Prepares To Declare War On the Media
Donald Trump is relaxing at his favourite golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. The place where Ivanka was married, the place where he wants to be buried.Still claiming he's not…
It takes four to replace Mansbridge?
The other day, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced that it will take four people to replace long-time news anchor Peter Mansbridge. The question is whether the four are equal to…
Has St. Albert councillor’s mayoral campaign forgotten the incumbent mayor isn’t seeking reelection?
PHOTOS: St. Albert City Councillor Cam MacKay, who is running for mayor of the municipality northwest of Edmonton. Below: Mayoral candidate Cathy Heron, also a city councillor, St. Albert Mayor…
Building Everyday Anti-Fascism (repost)
Ibrahima Barry. Azzeddine Soufiane. Khaled Belkacemi. Mamadou Tanou Barry. Abdelkrim Hassane. Boubaker Thabti. On January 29, 2017, these six men were murdered while praying at Québec City’s Islamic Cultural Centre,…
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GQ Creates New Award and Trump Wins
GQ rates Donald Trump the “laziest president in American history.” How does the Cheeto Benito pick up that accolade only six months into his term? Easy: “Don’t take vacations. What’s…
NDP Could End Up Winning Ontario In 2018
(Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath Could Be the Strongest Leader In Contention For 2018) With the next provincial election coming into view in Ontario, have the Liberals made a fatal…
Well, the Other Guy Had Goebbels.
Cheerful news from Business Insider. Donald Trump has a guy in mind to fill the vacancy for communications director. In case you haven’t followed that inner sanctum revolving door, here’s…
Jeebus! The NRA Wants to "Fist" the New York Times
This is the level of public discourse among America’s radical right, including the NRA.
Let’s Stop Cheating Our Grandchildren
The headline in The Independent is as powerful as it is true: Every second we waste denying climate change exists is time we steal from the next generation who will…
This guy visited when we were stacking a cord of wood
About six inches. Quiet type. Anyone know his name?
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Crawford Kilian writes that Donald Trump’s presidency is merely a symptom of the wider disease of undue deference to wealth. And Matt Karp…
Saturday Photo: Dry Falls and the Forces of the Earth
On our trip West in July, one of the most interesting places we stopped was at the Dry Falls State Park where the ancestral Columbia once ran. Or maybe it…
A Failure In Retrospect
Now that the Republicans have failed to repeal Obamacare, Paul Krugman puts that failure in perspective. Obamacare failed because the Republicans’ attempts to sabotage it really ticked people off: I’m…