Public Policy and Homelessness: The Case of Calgary
Over at the web site of the Calgary Homeless Foundation, I’ve written a blog post titled “Public Policy and Homelessness: The Case of Calgary.” Points raised in the blog post…
2017
The Salt for the People
via GIPHY For the region of Uttar Pradesh anemia is a big problem and the solution is to be salted. At the University of Toronto they have developed a new…
Of politicians and sleeping dogs.
It is hard to believe that anyone would want former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to be brought out of retirement—even just to sing an Irish ballad! And for those of…
Canadian nationalism: left- or right-wing? #nlpoli
Economist Stephen Gordon argues that “in Canada, the nationalism is as likely to form on the left as on the right.” (National Post, 2017). What’s more interesting, though, is that…
Canadian nationalism: left- or right-wing? #nlpoli
Economist Stephen Gordon argues that “in Canada, the nationalism is as likely to form on the left as on the right.” (National Post, 2017). What’s more interesting, though, is that…
Canada had better plan for an unprecedented refugee crisis as U.S. lurches toward ‘ethnic cleansing’
PHOTOS: Austrian police and Syrian refugees crowd a train platform in Vienna on Sept. 4, 2015 (photo by Josh Zakary). Below: U.S. President Donald Trump (photo by Gage Skidmore) and…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Familial cats.
Battle to Protect Northern Yukon, Home of Pristine Peel Watershed, From Industry Heads to Supreme Court
Almost 40 years ago, former federal judge Thomas Berger issued a final report in the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, at the time Canada’s longest, largest and most comprehensive industrial project…
Better to Be Fair Than Fast
Traditionally in Canada very serious criminal cases go to trial only after they have been reviewed by a judicial officer who hears from witnesses and decides there is enough evidence…
Better to Be Fair Than Fast
Traditionally in Canada very serious criminal cases go to trial only after they have been reviewed by a judicial officer who hears from witnesses and decides there is enough evidence…
Budget Bullshit
The first question you have to ask after following Collingwood Council’s sloppy and inept budget process is “Where did the money go?” Then the second question you have to ask,…
Battle to Protect Northern Yukon, Home of Pristine Peel Watershed, From Industry Heads to Supreme Court
Almost 40 years ago, former federal judge Thomas Berger issued a final report in the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, at the time Canada’s longest, largest and most comprehensive industrial project…
Better to Be Fair Than Fast
Traditionally in Canada very serious criminal cases go to trial only after they have been reviewed by a judicial officer who hears from witnesses and decides there is enough evidence…
This Says It All
Brian (“There’s no whore like an old whore”) Mulroney’s shameless pandering to Trump the other night confirmed yet again the shallowness of his character. This political cartoon captures his abject…
Sure, Go For It. Let’s Re-Freeze the Arctic.
There’s an ambitious proposal being floated to restore the Arctic Ocean sea ice. It entails deploying 10-million pumps powered by wind turbines. The pumps would draw sea water and spray…
This Says It All
Brian (“There’s no whore like an old whore”) Mulroney’s shameless pandering to Trump the other night confirmed yet again the shallowness of his character. This political cartoon captures his abject…
The Heart of Darkness, a.k.a. The Trump Administration
Foreign Policy’s Max Boot captures the extreme dysfunction inside the Trump White House. …the United States under President Donald Trump does not actually seem to have a foreign policy. Or,…
Entscheidend ist die Besatzungsmentalität: What’s crucial is the mentality of conquest and occupation
The following interview with J. Sakai was conducted by Gabriel Kuhn for the German radical monthly, “analyse & kritik” ( commonly known there as “AK” ). Both the German-language translation…
CPC leadership: no one ever listens to me, etc.
From Abacus, the best in the biz. Huge sample. Check it out: Key takeaways: Leitch’s negatives are four times her positives – and they’ve grown. O’Leary’s negatives – also huge.…