In addition to rebranding themselves as "alt-right," members of the white nationalist/supremacist movement have also adopted the label of identitarian. The movement which originated in France is virulently anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim,…
Following up on my earlier post and column, let’s start taking a look at some of the more distinctive policy proposals on offer between Saskatchewan’s NDP leadership candidates. Probably the…
Is there a New Yorker alive who hasn’t spend time in The Strand? A New York City tourist who didn’t thrill to their first visit to The Strand? The man…
One thing you have to say for Donald Trump. He manages to suck all the oxygen out of a room. This post happens to be about oxygen and it isn’t…
Edmonton, the city I have called home since birth, has a love-hate relationship with winter. One the one hand, we hate it. It’s cold, it’s dark 15 hours of the…
As a geriatric punk, I should despise double albums. And, in the case of 7 and 8, I do. But the rest are actually good picks. Discuss.
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Wanda Wyporska highlights the UK’s corporate executive fat cats, and argues that it’s long past time for the public to stop rewarding…
Kevin Drum writes that, earlier in the year, he worried that the United States was slipping into autocratic hands. Now, he’s more sanguine: Republicans are in panic mode over the…
The winter grinds on. We were spared the Snow Bomb, but the temperatures have plunged again, and what snow fell in the last couple of days was whipped around yesterday.…
In response to my post yesterday about CBC bias in its reporting on Ontario’s minimum wage increase, the Mound wrote a detailed commentary that I am featuring today as a…
Did nobody at the Tim Horton’s head office know about the change in minimum wage for Ontario scheduled for the first of January? Did all those franchisees fail to tell…
PHOTOS: U.S. President Donald Trump’s inaugural parade makes its way through Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2017, just before the stuff hit the fan and everything went to hell in…
Happy New Year to everyone! You may be wondering where I have been for the past five months, since The Political Road Map has become quite lonely. I decided that…
Happy New Year to everyone! You may be wondering where I have been for the past five months, since The Political Road Map has become quite lonely. I decided that…
Yang Yongliang is a Chinese artist who uses photography and video to create new versions of landscapes and the city. Website Rune Guneriussen is an artist after my own heart,…
Best @realDonaldTrump alternate names: — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 6, 2018
A reader sent me this item. It’s magnificent. And, oh, I thank him for it. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/what-christmas-means/_________________________________________________________ The irving press continues to splash in its journalistic gutter. It’s latest contribution to…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne discusses the divergence between an upper class with soaring incomes, and the bulk of the population facing stagnation and precarity: (W)hile…
I will be the first to admit that I get only modest amounts of my news from television. However, due to the severe cold we have been experiencing for too…
Donald Trump’s latest tweets – about how he isn’t insane – indisputably make the case that he is. There can’t be much doubt, now. What now? What do we do?…
