What Is a Left-Leaning Green to Do?
With less than a week to go before election day and polls tightening across British Columbia, I find myself in the all-too-common predicament of dreading the electoral options before me.…
With less than a week to go before election day and polls tightening across British Columbia, I find myself in the all-too-common predicament of dreading the electoral options before me.…
It may be the most overhyped story to hit the Commons in a long long time. And the most racist.But the Cons are desperate to find something, anything, to try…
The Islamophobic groups ARC have been following for the past few years really like rallies and protests. They also seem think that these events are of great historical significance and…
PHOTOS: Cars full of refugees from the Fort McMurray Wildfire flee the flames on May 3, 2016. (Wikipedia) Below: Premier Rachel Notley, then Municipal Affairs Minister Danielle Larivee, and Opposition…
Soon after the 2015 federal election, Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau affirmed that Canada was “back” as a “compassionate and constructive voice in the world” after a decade of Conservative governments.…
PHOTOS: Premier Brad Wall of Saskatchewan (Photo: CBC). Below: Edmonton lawyer Simon Renouf. If Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall thinks he can just snap his fingers and the Notwithstanding Clause of…
I was on my way for a hair-cut this morning when, at the corner of Sherbourne and Gerrard Streets, I momentarily took flight. Picture Peter Pan on his worst day.…
Signifying security. By Kwakiutl artist R. Adams of Alert Bay. Picked up during a quick swing through Ottawa to get a daughter (100 per cent on final exam!), talk to…
Colourful cats.
The Saint Lawrence has been much higher than usual this spring in Verdun. Today I walked between the Natatorium and the Marina and there were parts of the lower path…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Trade Justice reports on Justin Trudeau’s role in pushing for an international corporate giveaway through a new Trans-Pacific Partnership – even as…
As the Pythons would chime, “Always Look On the Bright Side of Life.“ Foreign Policy editor, David Rothkopf, revisits a lesson he learned from his father that should be welcome…
Late capitalism. It’s a term with roots in the disciples of Karl Marx but, like “neoliberalism,” it’s come to mean many things to many people. The Atlantic explores the depth…
This Harjit Sajjin business brought to mind something that appeared in Harper’s about recent Afghan peace talks. On hand were representatives of the Afghan government, the Talibs, Pakistan, China and…
A fellow blogger today allowed that he had abandoned hope that mankind will pull out of its climate change nose dive.I have come to the conclusion that there is no…
TECHNOCRACY INC.
Canada’s defence minister, Harjit Sajjan, has landed in hot water for claiming he was the architect of Canada’s major combat mission during the Afghan War, Operation Medusa. The Tories rather…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment: Technocracy Inc. Predicted Oil Crisis Over 50 year…: I thought I would re-post this article here, as it is buried deep in my RedBetweenTheLines…
Provincial politics. There, I said them — two of the most boring words in the English language. There’s no denying it. Provincial elections fail to capture the imaginations of citizens…