If there is a wrong way?
The Trudeau government seems to be fated to find the wrong way to do things. Whether it is just a contrariness or a strange quirk is still something we have…
January 2018
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Comfy cats.
The Racism-Power Intersection, Day 3/18
Let’s get into chapter 2 of Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race! It’s been hard in recent year to talk about reverse racism, which I don’t believe…
Jan. 16:Did you hear him? Did you hear him?…
…Oh, the monster overbearing.Don’t go near him. Don’t go near him.He is swearing. He is swearing. (With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan and the captain of HMS Pinafore). There is…
Carving Out a Post-Globalism World
Even though our government may still embrace it, globalism is a failed concept and those who cling to it are inviting some pretty nasty consequences. The consensus about globalism is…
Why Is Canada the Country Insisting It Be Kept Intact? Just Who Is Our Government Protecting?
One of the truly perplexing aspects of the North American Free Trade Act, NAFTA, is the Ch. 11 investor dispute resolution section. Trump wants it gone. Mexico doesn’t seem to…
A New McCarthyism
We all knew them growing up – the kid who would do anything to curry favour with the teacher, the one we knew variously as ‘the brown-noser,’ the ‘suck-up’ or…
Yanis Takes His Scalpel and Dissects Globalism
It is not easy to get people to think about globalization, capitalism in the neoliberal era and what lies ahead, if anything. To use Bill Maher’s indelicate metaphor, it’s like…
Wormwood and a Shocking Secret of War: How Errol Morris Vindicated My Father, Wilfred Burchett
Wormwood Errol Morris Fourth Floor Productions, 2017 We see a wall with murky brown floral wallpaper and a door with a peephole and the number 1018A. A man is talking…
First Nations File Civil Action Against Site C, Citing Treaty 8 Infringement
The West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations filed a civil suit in the Supreme Court of British Columbia Tuesday claiming the Site C dam, along with two other hydroelectric…
WELLBEING IN CAREGIVING – Here’s How to Get It
There are two questions about caring families that interest me. The first is, “How can we plan our days and weeks to give us a better chance of being happy?”…
We Are Not Making Progress
The countries which fought on the United Nations side of the Korean War are meeting in Vancouver. China, Russia — and North Korea — won’t be there. The United States…
Thought For The Day
Recommend this Post
The Hijab Girl and the Bigot Cons
By now I'm sure most of you have heard the story of the 11-year-old Muslim girl in Toronto who claimed a bigot had attacked her.And how that turned out not…
Shilling for the politicos.
Full disclosure requires me to admit that I was a political spin doctor before I knew what a spin doctor was. I am not as proud of it as I…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Bernie Sanders comments on the need to take back political power from the wealthiest few: Now, more than ever, those of us…
Some Sculptors
Subodh Gupta “Subodh Gupta (born in 1964) is an Indian Contemporary artist based in New Delhi. Trained as a painter, he went on to experiment with a variety of media.…
Whose side should Canada take if two NATO states start shooting at each other? Don’t laugh … it could happen
PHOTOS: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. If he looks ticked off, it’s probably because he is. (Photo: Kremlin.ru via Wikimedia Commons.) Hey! Don’t blame me if the only good royalty-free…
Global Warming Stirs the Methane Monster
Photo by Ralph Barrera It’s January, yet methane hydrates in the Arctic are growling like an incensed monster on a scorching hot mid-summer day. But, it is January; it’s winter,…
The ‘New Anti-Semitism’
Illustration by The Forward Not long after the eruption of the Second Intifada in September 2000, I became active in a Jewish-Palestinian political movement called Ta’ayush, which conducts non-violent direct…