How The Con Media Were Made To Look Like Idiots
Remembrance Day is always a sad day, but it was a particularly gloomy day at the Parliamentary Press Gallery.Yesterday they were squealing like hogs, accusing Justin Trudeau of having sabotaged…
2017
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Gabriel Zucman discusses how the wealthy currently avoid paying their fair share of taxes – and how to stop them by properly…
Hot Air — That’s All
During the election campaign, Donald Trump talked tough about China. The United State, he said, “cannot continue to allow China to rape our country.” But, last week, he put on…
Internet Echo Chamber
The problem is the explosion of communication means: the internet, social media, 24 hours a day. They have opened access to information to more people than we can say, and…
The despotism of First-Past-the-Post?
One of our favourite political bloggers wrote a desperate ‘cri de Coeur’ the other day against what he perceives as the despotism of first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting. He lives on Canada’s…
Seeing The Light
This is nothing like a reformed evangelical who has seen the light: Appearing on MSNBC’s AM Joy, former evangelical – and son a a famous pastor — angrily tore into…
On suspended animation
It would be nice to be able to share Michael Geist’s view that the latest TPP by another name represents a substantial improvement over the original. But to my mind,…
A CAREGIVER TWITTER CHALLENGE TO BREAK THE INTERNET
I’m not an original thinker. I know it. But hey, I know what I am good at: stealing other peoples’ great ideas and mixing them up differently for a caregiver…
Nov. 11: Our Lies to those Who Served
Our modern newspaper, cheap enough to be available to almost everyone, appeared about 1880. The industry had developed so far by then, it could produce a newspaper for one cent…
Greg Clark Steps Down as Alberta Party Leader
In a surprise move the Alberta Party is in the hunt for a new leader. With recent consolidation of the uber-right in the UCP there are a lot of free-floating…
Greg Clark Steps Down as Alberta Party Leader
In a surprise move the Alberta Party is in the hunt for a new leader. With recent consolidation of the uber-right in the UCP there are a lot of free-floating…
Recipe For Hate is officially out today – and the tour is coming to Ottawa!
Get it here! And deets about the Carleton stop below!
Greg Clark Steps Down as Alberta Party Leader
In a surprise move the Alberta Party is in the hunt for a new leader. With recent consolidation of the uber-right in the UCP there are a lot of free-floating…
Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – Abacus Data has polled the Canadian public on climate change, and found far more appetite for meaningful action than we generally hear…
Why Toronto needs a national housing strategy
Dr. Colin Phillips is an up-and-coming scholar in Canada’s homelessness sector. He has an opinion piece in today’s Toronto Star titled “Why Toronto needs a national housing strategy.” Points made…
Canadians React To The Paradise Papers
If you aren’t yet outraged over recent revelations, check your pulse to make sure you are still amongst the living. Happily, signs of life are plentiful among Toronto Star readers:…
Remembrance Day 2017
It's Remembrance Day 2017, and a time to remember all those who fought and died for our country.A time to remember my fighting grandfathers… Who survived the war but were…
The Disease Behind The Anxiety
This week marked the anniversary of Donald Trump’s election. The British recently passed the first anniversary of Brexit. Jonathan Freedland writes that, on both sides of the Atlantic, progressives are…
Saturday Photo: Concrete, the Material That Builds Our World
This week I’m really got rolling on the newest project, a new book to be called Rock of Ages: How Concrete Built the World As We Know It. Making plans…
The Day The Con Media Roared Like Rats
No, that's not the famous MGM logo, and that's not Leo the lion.That's our ratty Con media!!! It can make quite a roar when it goes after a big piece…