Zambia Bites Back
Tourism Zambia has used the Mango Mussolini’s outburst to take the piss out of Donald J. Trump. How sweet it is. Meanwhile, a new Gallup poll finds that Trump’s popularity…
January 2018
Sudbury Councillor Threatens Punitive Measures Against the Downtown Over the Public’s Participation in Planning Processes
“The Downtown Master Plan is nothing more than a guide, and a pretty Utopian guide I may add. It was designed by a company in Toronto that created a dream…
Site C’s Shaky Economic Justification Is Proof It’s Time To Make Decisions Differently
This piece originally appeared on the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. There is no question that the new B.C. government’s decision to proceed with the Site C dam was a…
Jan 18: Repeating a terrible mistake.
Trump has launched an attack on Russia and China for helping North Korea to avoid American sanctions on its trade. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/17/trump-accuses-russia-of-violating-sanctions-to-aid-north-korea No. Don’t blame Trump. He is doing what every…
Canada to Monitor Behaviour of Corporations Aboard
Canada announced yesterday that, like other nations, the country will be monitoring how Canadian corporations behave beyond its borders. Over the years there have been too many accounts of corporations…
Neo-Nazi hate rag: Canadian Jewish News has the latest
A quick summary, also provided to Paul at CJN: the Criminal Code charges for promoting hatred against women and Jews are going ahead with a hearing in February the criminal…
UNIFOR vs the CLC vs ATU vs UNITE-HERE vs what the hell are we doing here?
I’m no longer in the business, so take this rant with a bucket of salt and an understanding that I have no actual, credible insider information but I see UNIFOR’s…
Does poetry make things happen in 2018?
I was thinking about how little poets seem to matter to modern political administrations. Maybe to modern society as a whole. Their light has, it seems, been waning for several…
LawFact of the Day: Wills and Estates
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday January 18, 2018. Today we are talking about Wills and Estates. For more information on Employment Law, Family Law, Wills,…
John Tory deserves credit for getting Toronto this far
Pretty impressive, whatever happens next. Huge @JohnTory win. 'Toronto the only Canadian city on Amazon short list of HQ2 candidates' #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli https://t.co/Xykqh6Pv2e — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 18,…
It’s All About Power
It’s certain that the way the heirs to the Tim Horton’s fortune handled Ontario’s minimum wage hike will become a classic case study. Linda McQuaig writes: Apparently thinking nobody would…
The only thing more ironic would be changing the election date to April 14th
I apologize for this, but it is such a lay-up.
Donald Trump’s Sinister Fake News Awards
In my last post I lamented the fact that the White House doctor had horrified people all over the world, by giving Donald Trump a clean bill of health.And by…
Anti-gay discriminators now complaining about getting a taste of their own medicine re: Canada Summer Jobs program
For decades if not centuries, social conservatives and devoutly religious types have led the charge in favour of discrimination against LGBT people. They have fought tooth and nail to ruin…
Politics is a numbers racket.
It is time to admit it: I used to be a numbers runner. Different from the numbers racket in the United States, in Canada, it is a political game. I…
Noxious weeds: The growth of the far right in Canada and Québec
Cartoon by Michael Kountouris, Greece; Cagle Cartoons. The Global North has been witnessing the recrudescence of the rabid right for decades now. The advancing victories at the ballot box —…
A look at far-right groups in Québec
Montréal, Nov. 12, 2017; Photo by André Querry. In the wake of 9/11, right-wing extremist groups all over the global North reconfigured themselves around a new common enemy: Islam. It’s…
Canadian labour movement abuzz in wake of Unifor decision to quit Canadian Labour Congress
PHOTOS: Unifor President Jerry Dias (Photo: Unifor Local 591-G). Below: Canadian Labour Congress President Hassan Yussuff and former Ontario Federation of Labour President Sid Ryan. The Canadian labour movement is…
Memo to Jacobin: Ecomodernism is not ecosocialism
“To say that ‘science and technology can solve all our problems in the long run,’ is much worse than believing in witchcraft.” —István Mészáros This summer, the left-wing magazine Jacobin…
Inevitable Race Conversation Mistakes, Oluo Day 4/18
I love chapter 3 of Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race. It reminds us that our human/race arrogance is a deep impediment to making a difference in…