Uberrific!
Cover-ups!Scandals! Sexual harassment!Tax evasion! Employment standards violations! Deliberate dishonesty!And all in the service of a business model built on becoming too big to ban while operating as a regulatory-evasion company!…
2017
A Modern Witch Hunt
Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. -The Trial, by Franz Kafka Thus begins one of…
Saturday Photo: Start of Construction
The photo was taken about a year ago when construction began in earnest for the new Université de Montréal satellite campus. What I wanted to show was the concrete delivery…
Habitat: A Guest Post From The Salamander
Those of you who visit this space regularly know the salamander. His comments are always insightful, tightly argued, and a pleasure to read. He sent this comment on yesterday’s post…
The Day Andrew Scheer Was Impaled On His Own Petard
Andrew Scheer tries so hard to hide his religious fanaticism behind a facade of normality.And a creepy smile that seems almost screwed or glued on to his face.But something always…
Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – David Climenhaga comments on the tendency of even progressive governments to unduly accept neoliberal frames and theories – with Rachel Notley’s talk…
Rachel wants you on her side.
Do you feel threatened by Alberta Premier Rachel Notley? It seems the lady can scare anyone who gets in her way. Right now, she is in a rage against people…
Civilized people pay for civilization
Maclean’s produced a ranking of the most dangerous places in Canada by examining communities with populations as small as 10,000. They explain the methodology: The report ranks communities according to…
Them vs us
Disputing parties in arguments about Site C belong to either of two camps. One is populated by people wanting a share of the billions of dollars to be spent; the…
Making love like a woman
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Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Linda McQuaig discusses how Justin Trudeau, Bill Morneau and the federal Libs are focused mostly on further privileging the rich: There’s lots of…
Musical interlude
Delerium feat. Shelly Harland – Above the Clouds
Nov. 24:Very Dangerous Times in the Middle East and the Koreas.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/north-korea-crossing-video-1.4413846 You’ll notice that in this story, the North Korean soldier is courageous. Okay. Now let’s suppose he was an American soldier posted on the border (or a South Korean)…
Yes, Dorothy, He Really Can Nuke the World
Donald Trump is unique in so many ways, none of them good. Mental health professionals have proclaimed him a nutjob, a malignant narcissist with sociopathic instincts. There’s not been a…
Threats of Civil War and Political Assassination…. From Canadian Far Right
It hasn't been even a month since the predicted antigageddon promoted by such media propagandists as Alex Jones and embraced by his credulous supporters in both the United States and…
The Shamrock in Theresa May’s Knickers
Theresa May is crazy. If she wasn’t, why would she be fighting so hard to barely cling to power? The PM’s nemesis is, of course, Brexit. She’s determined to drag…
Review: From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
If you are on the left, you have probably encountered some version of what has become a pretty standard account of the history between the end of the Second World…
Melanie Joly is spending $5 million of our money on a hockey rink
…a hockey rink that does not permit the playing of hockey. From next week’s column: Anyway. Let’s forget about the Holocaust Monument, and the Netflix thing, and Canada 150. Let’s…
Bill C-27: A Followup
In yesterday’s post, I discussed Linda McQauig’s article about the purpose of Bill C-27, the Trudeau- Morneau pension bill that would eviscerate Defined Benefit Plans for those working for the…
David Suzuki: Corporate influence inflames political cynicism
Even though elected politicians, especially those who end up holding cabinet positions, often prioritize corporate interests over those of their electors, David Suzuki still encourages us to overcome political cynicism…