Social Media can get a leader elected, but not necessarily re-elected
Thats up to the leader’s Chief of Staff on both sides of the border Filed under: Fucking Neocons
2017
Purchase infrastructure – just not ready for climate change
Climate change? We need to plan for the future. Now. (0)
Eating up the Hill: When we weren’t watching they completely changed how we make tacos
I’m taking a temporary pause from my Hill and Hill-adjacent food blogging to discuss an incredibly important food-related topic: a massive and unannounced under the radar change to the fundamental…
His Name Was Patrick Harmon
Only a failed nation perpetrates the kind of atrocity depicted in the following video. While difficult to watch, what other choice do we have but to bear witness? Recommend this…
New book on Indigenous homelessness
I’ve recently reviewed a new book on homelessness among Indigenous peoples. The book, published by the University of Manitoba Press, was edited by Evelyn Peters and Julia Christensen. My review…
Saturday Afternoon Links
This and that for your weekend reading. – Joseph Stiglitz discusses how the Republican’s trillion-dollar corporate giveaway will only exacerbate inequality without doing anything to help the U.S.’ economy: If…
Saturday Photo: Happy Thanksgiving…
A little fall in the air, finally, with some leaves turning colour! Nice… This weekend in Canadian Thanksgiving, a feast I like a lot. The idea of giving thanks to…
Reaching Across The Divide
In an effort at ecumenical outreach, Mrs. Betty Bowers reaches out to the Real Housewives of ISIS to show that their religious sensibilities have much in common with those of…
Welcome to Canada’s best-loved political web site!
Looks a bit different, eh? I’ve been doing this wee web site – – for more than a decade and a half. Started in 2000 or so for a couple…
Is Trump Now Too Mentally Disturbed To Remain In Office?
For a while last night there was a rumour flying around Washington that General John Kelly, Donald Trump's Chief of Staff, was about to resign.Having finally given up trying to…
It’s Coming
On the question of electoral reform, Andrew Coyne is an optimist: It is going to happen, eventually. Some day, somewhere in this country, at some level of government, the monopoly…
“Nice suits and empty slogans.”
That comment about suits and slogans was in the last line of the Toronto Star’s pompous editorial on “The challenge for Singh.” The newspaper editorialists want Singh and Trudeau to…
Holy Joly
Does she have photos of Justin Trudeau in a compromising position? Does he owe her a lot of money? Is she holding hostage a member of his family? There’s no…
Herman Bell’s charges dropped. moved to Shawangunk!
On September 5th, political prisoner and movement elder Herman Bell was assaulted by guards at Great Meadow Correctional Facility. He sustained multiple injuries, including broken ribs, yet instead of being…
Stephen Clarkson: An Introduction to a special blog series
Stephen Clarkson: Political Economist with a Global Vision (1937 – 2016) Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Daniel Drache Stephen Clarkson died early in 2016 in Freiburg, Germany and Canada lost someone…
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Paarlberg discusses how the ratchet effect is making American health care far more durable than Republicans may have realized – while recognizing…
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780 Saint Remi – Then and Now.
Took this picture about 7 years ago after much of the Turcot Movement had already happened. Much on my mind at that point. This was a pretty cool building inhabited…