The best explanation of the victories of Rob Ford, Brexit, Donald Trump et al.
The answer was right there in front of me, ironically enough. Brilliant. A vote for the National Front was of course a vote tinged with racism and homophobia. My father…
2017
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Branko Milanovic reviews Mike Lofgren’s The Deep State, and highlights how entrenched wealth and power have hijacked our public institutions for their…
The Bilingue Bounty
Probably no one deserves more credit for putting Canada on the bilingual path than Pierre Trudeau. Many of my generation achieved high school French and little more. Both of my…
From Women’s Reproductive Rights to Bank Bailouts to Blasphemy, the Irish Can Be a Backward Bunch.
Stephen Fry is looking at a 25,000 Euro fine under Ireland’s 2009 Blasphemy Act for… for this:
New York Times: The Rebel is “far-Right,” and is aiding a white supremacist
…and, their “Washington correspondent” is involved in illegal hacking. See the full Times story, here. The Rebel’s support for white supremacy and the Holocaust-denying National Front should surprise no one…
The Flim Flam Man
Donald Trump has done one thing more than anything else — sign executive orders. Those signings — done with great fanfare — tell you a great deal about the man.…
The French Hacking Attack and the Rebel Connection
With only 24 hours to go before the French presidential election, and Emmanuel Macron leading Marine Le Pen in the polls, this was hardly surprising. The campaign of the French…
The myth of America’s FBI.
There is a very bad television show on television these days called Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders. A weak spinoff from the highly successful Criminal Minds show that is now ending…
Infighting Amongst Canadian Islamophobes: Part 4
The previous post entitled, "Infighting Amongst Canadian Islamophobes: Part 3" was going to be the last in the series for a while as there were other articles I've been working…
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Derrick O’Keefe makes the case for much-needed regime change in British Columbia, while Nancy MacDonald notes that such a result is far from…
May 6: The Hard Truth
The very hard truth. Since 1945, the U.S. has killed – nobody knows how many -15 million? more? It has created at least eighty million refugees – civilians, mostly. They…
Saturday Photo: Getting There….
This is the week the trees leaf out, and in spite of the rain they seem to be on schedule this year. Lovely to see the green…
Eating up the Hill: Stick with the egg rolls at the Golden Palace
At Carling and Woodroffe, the Golden Palace Restaurant is well outside the radius I usually stick to for my Parliament Hill-adjacent food blogging. But their egg rolls are an Ottawa…
The BC 2017 ballot question
@jjhorgan's #BCNDP's aligned with @realDonaldTrump on trade. @christyclarkbc wants to hammer Trump over softwood. That's the #bcpoli ballot. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 6, 2017
The Ultimate Disposable Species
My mother was fond of repeating an old adage: “You’ve made your bed. Now lie it it.” While that advice, in one form or another, has probably been meted out…
Going To War
As unpleasant as it may be to contemplate, David Olive believes that Canadians should prepare for a trade war with Donald Trump’s America. He writes: Donald Trump, going against his…
Lisa Raitt and the Kamikaze Candidate
The hapless stooges in our corporate media like to describe Lisa Raitt as the most "moderate" candidate in the Con leadership race. The one who is so "nice" she doesn't…
A rookie mistake in Don Valley North.
In October last year we wrote some personal comments about the area of Don Valley North electoral district in Toronto. The wife and I had our home there in that…
Research sheds light on dark corner of B.C.’s oil and gas industry
A field study by the David Suzuki Foundation and St. Francis Xavier University found methane pollution from B.C.’s oil and gas industry is at least 2.5 times higher than B.C.…