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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
(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,…
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: One of the important and famous ideas introduced by Hegel in his The Phenomenology of Spirit is the idea of master-slave…
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…
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…
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 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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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…
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…
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 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…