A Pivotal Election in British Columbia
To all my friends in British Columbia. Tomorrow is election day: 1. If you haven’t already, please vote. This is a democratic right denied to many. Not to participate is…
2017
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dean Baker notes that a reduction in required work time could go a long way toward ensuring that workers share in productivity gains.…
Unions are critical in youth fight against precarity
Photo from RankandFile.ca “It is the instability, not knowing how many hours I would get in a week,” says Samuelm, who’s quoted in a 2015 report by the Workers’ Action…
Canada and the pirates of the Caribbean
1830 watercolour from Barbados Perhaps a new rule is in order: Everyone must take a history lesson before seeking some fun in the sun. Recently, NDP Member of Parliament Erin…
Unravelling the secrets of the National Inquiry
Photo by Obert Madondo During Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s election campaign, he promised that, if elected, the Liberal’s first order of business would be to conduct a national inquiry into…
The State of the Planet – Kofi Annan
Some think of him as the finest Secretary-General in the history of the United Nations (1997-2006). He wasn’t just a servant of the member states but an advocate for people…
Green Party campaign manager quit over Andrew Weaver’s bullying, bad policies
Andrew Weraver attacks BCNDP Leader John Horgan during the televised leaders’ debate On the eve of his candidate’s kick-off event, Green Party campaign manager Troy Grant reached his breaking point…
The Warming Arctic Adding More CO2 And Methane
Think of it this way – permafrost, methane emissions; tundra, CO2 emissions. We’ve known for some time that melting permafrost in the Arctic is leading to the release of troubling…
Bits from today’s column about tomorrow’s vote (update twice!)
(And HuffPo version here!) (Oh, and John Horgan seems to have, um, gotten stuck on the campaign trail…) Twenty-one years ago, we BC Liberals were gathered at the Hotel Vancouver,…
Witness Tampering, Trump-Style
Eyebrows are being raised over Trump’s Twitter attacks on former Acting Attorney-General, Sally Yates, hours before she was scheduled to appear to testify about Trump’s former National Security Adviser, ret.…
The Cultural Reader: Hegel on Master-Slave Dialectic – Summary
The Cultural Reader: Hegel on Master-Slave Dialectic – Summary: One of the important and famous ideas introduced by Hegel in his The Phenomenology of Spirit is the idea of master-slave…
May 8: More greed. More stupidity bred with greed.
Briefly, there is a stunning error in today’s Brunswick news. The headline is “Historian says Russian spies may have stolen Mackenzie King’s diary”.Now, the newspaper’s editors write the headlines on…
When Communism Inspired Americans
Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) addresses a political meeting in New York in 1912 • Photo by Keystone/Getty Images At a rally in New York City in 1962, the famously liberal…
As B.C. Election Approaches, Greens Get Cozy With Liberals
From left, B.C. Liberal Leader Christy Clark, Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver and NDP Leader John Horgan • Photo by B.C. Broadcast Consortium Is the Green Party in a tacit…
The Block killed the hospital. They MUST all resign. Now.
The actions of The Block and the town’s administration have resulted in the Collingwood General & Marine Hospital losing its chance for redevelopment. The province didn’t include funding for the…
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Is British Columbia Headed in the Direction of Washington, Oregon and California?
The closing polls in the BC election suggest a close race perhaps trending in the direction of the incumbent BC Liberals, despite the name really small ‘c’ conservatives. However, it…
What Are Your Favourite Blog Trackers?
Over the years I’ve used a couple of blog trackers. I would periodically check them, just out of curiosity. It was mildly interesting to see who was visiting and from…
Climate Change And Cities
This is a time when the credibility of national governments is at an all-time low. In the United States, Donald Trump openly denies climate science. Indeed, he has declared his…
UNESCO Adds 8 New Geological Sites
UNESCO added eight new sites to their ‘Global Geopark.’ The sites each demonstrate the amazing and great geology of our planet, and the diversity of Earth. The new locations are…