Why Do We March?
Of the 120,000 people who attended the Women’s March in Canada, 10,000 marched in Alberta and 3,500 marched in Calgary. They were repeatedly asked, “Why do you march?” They replied…
January 2018
A perfect example of Andrew Scheer’s leadership…
Step 1: Call a press conference. Step 2: Read from your prepared statement. Step 3: Answer a few softball questions. Step 4: On being asked a more nuanced question, panic…
Revisiting the Hijab Story and the General Denial of Islamophobic Violence
Back in 1982, one of my Grade 2 classmates arrived at school more than an hour late. The teacher began to admonish him and demand why it had taken him…
On permanent repercussions
When Trent Wotherspoon first announced that he was considering pursuing the Saskatchewan NDP’s permanent leadership, I pointed out some of my concerns about how his previous tenure as interim leader…
Alberta Election 2019: candidate nomination update
Photo: Alberta political party nomination candidates: Mike Walsh, Stephanie McLean, Leela Aheer and Craig Coolahan. Here is the latest update to the list of candidates running for political party nominations…
Your Sunday Sermon: Maybe this Trump fellow isn’t so bad after all
Last year, I wrote that one of my resolutions for 2018 was to deTrump myself. No more reading about the insane clown president. No more all-Trump, all-the-time monologues from the…
The Royal Bank of Scotland – Poster Boy of Neoliberalism
The collapse of privatization behemoth, Carillion, could become the straw that broke the neoliberal camel’s back. Carillion has shown that the transfer of risk from the public sector to the…
Back off!
Back off!Sandhill Crane – George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jesse Winter is the latest reporter to tell the stories of a few minimum-wage workers who will see a raise as a…
Tales From the Coral Reefs
In our age, coral reefs are the canary in the coal mine. Tim Radford writes: Forty years ago, the world’s coral reefs faced a known risk: every 25 or 30…
The book I will write one day
I fantasize about writing a novel in which the main character knocks cell phones out of the hands of distracted people who are walking towards her. She would be regarded…
All The Better To Serve The Lord
That can be the only possible explanation for the purchase of a Gulfstream V jet that evangelist Kenneth Copeland (a.k.a Kenneth Copeland Ministries) bought with his donors’ money. The specs…
Donald Trump’s Disappointing and Depressing Anniversary
Donald Trump must have been so disappointed. He wanted to spend the weekend in Mar-A-Lago, celebrating his one-year anniversary in power with his billionaire friends.And of course, playing even more…
The Walls of NAFTA.
There is more than one wall to consider when the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiators meet in Montreal this week. The wall that the negotiations is creating between…
Speaking Truth to Power.
By now most readers will have read that Sen. Jeff Flake ripped Trump a new one last Wednesday in a speech in the U.S. Senate and perhaps read some extracts…
Trouble With III% Canada and Provincial Chapters
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Not Being Defensive About Racist Police Brutality, Oluo 7/18
Despite the statistics that police treat people of colour and indigenous people more unfairly and brutally, a reflexive defensiveness exists to discount that experience. When people who aren’t white complain…
A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
It was a dark time in America’s past. Forces of division threatened to tear the nation apart. It compelled Abraham Lincoln to borrow the biblical phrase, “a house divided against…
Jan.20: The Future is Very Near.
I had just finished some seven hours of writing it when my blog disappeared. I have no idea why. I shall try again – but this may be a short…
More Public Intimidation and Misrepresentation of Facts from Greater Sudbury Councillor Kirwan Over Upcoming Arena & Casino Public Meeting
On his Valley East Facebook group, Councillor Kirwan is sharing a private email between citizens that someone has shared with him. Very classy.I’ve reproduced his lengthy post at the bottom…