Sudbury Steve May 2017-07-19 17:00:00
An Open Letter To: Chantal Mathieu, Director, Environmental Services, City of Greater Sudbury. It’s recently come to my attention via a post made to social media that there is an…
2017
July 12: One runs out of titles….
Today’s front page story for Irving press was a about a woman from Britain who just flew all the way to Moncton so she could see her favourite band. Ther…
THIS Is What A Better BC Can Look Like!
Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals Stop obsessing with how personally green you live – and start collectively taking on corporate power Source: Neoliberalism has conned…
Kamloops Council, First Nations Ask B.C. Government to Suspend Controversial Ajax Mine Proposal
One of the first controversies likely to land on the desk of newly-minted Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Minister Michelle Mungall is what to do about the proposed massive Ajax…
Okay, Kids. Here’s Your Inheritance. You Owe $535 Trillion Dollars.
Imagine if your older generations had handed you a tab of $535 trillion. That’s the estimated cost of “negative emissions” technologies those who follow us will have to implement if…
Utter contempt at council
Utter contempt. That’s what The Block showed for process at council, on Monday night. And for ethics. And for you, the residents. Utter contempt. But when they want to give…
Justin’s Secrecy
There will always be those unable to see beyond the obvious when it comes to Justin Trudeau. His sunny smile, his platitudinous assurances that we can have our pipelines and…
Defending the rights of injured workers
Photo by IWW Environmental Unionist Caucus The Fight for $15 and Fairness campaign has swept across Ontario as a broad-based, worker-led movement that poses a powerful challenge to the austerity…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Mike Konczal responds to a pathetic attempt to drain the word “neoliberal” of all meaning (which seems to have won favour with Canadian…
Corporations are beating us up; can we develop a more just system?
Aggressive capitalism is kicking the crap out of us, so we should see if we can start a public conversation about the need for an alternative political and social system.…
Corporations are beating us up; can we develop a more just system?
Aggressive capitalism is kicking the crap out of us, so we should see if we can start a public conversation about the need for an alternative political and social system.…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law Toronto for Wednesday July 19, 2017. Today we are talking about Family Law. The property rights of common law spouses upon separation…
Who Knows?
NAFTA will be renegotiated. But, Tim Harper writes, the negotiations will not be a disaster: Robert Lighthizer released his 18-page list of priorities for coming NAFTA negotiations, and there was…
Two years ago this week
From Leger. Facebook reminded me. The slide, meanwhile, reminds all of us that there are no certainties in politics – everything can change in an instant, and in ways few…
The Con Clown Cheryl Gallant Disgraces Herself Again
As I like to say every time I write about Cheryl Gallant, this is all you really need to know about that ghastly Con clown:She's a religious fanatic, and a…
Tonawanda Provides a Template for Transitioning a Town’s Economy from Coal
Globally, coal is on the way out and in America small towns are suffering because coal demand is dropping. The predictable plight of coal-backed small towns in the USA has…
The art of changing minds.
Author and columnist Susan Delacourt asked her readers last week in a Toronto Star column to help her understand how views can be shifted in politics. Having observed this phenomenon…
The Plot to Assassinate Democracy
Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Charles Koch and one James McGill Buchanan and there you have the radical right’s stealth plan to dismember democracy in America. The worst part, according…
The race is on … unity voting starts tomorrow and UCP candidates are already at the clubhouse turn
PHOTOS: The race is on and it looks like … “a dangerous leader.” (Old horseracing print with that title found on the Internet, artist unknown.) Below: Would-be United Conservative Party…