EU Launches Urban Mining Project
The European Union’s newest mining project focuses on urban areas throughout the continent. Their ProSUM project built a database of metals, chemicals, and materials brought into the EU market over…
January 2018
#MeToo bits and pieces, this and that
Apropos of nothing, here’s what I and others are hearing: PROVINCIAL Hearing Patrick Brown was dragging down the PCs among women. With him out of the picture, there is more…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Matthew Sears writes that we would be much better off prioritizing more than just cutting short-term costs and prices in making choices:…
Their Last Refuge
When Donald Trump ran for president, most of the big money donors kept their distance. His own Secretary of State has called him a “moron.” And Rupert Murdoch — if…
Islam-hate found on an Ottawa mosque
Ottawa Police are investigating graffiti written on the Jami Omar Mosque in Bells Corners across from Seyton Dr. The same street where earlier this month, a teenager was struck and…
Andrew Scheer and the Ghost of Stephen Harper
For weeks Andrew Scheer has been claiming that when Parliament resumed he would destroy Justin Trudeau with a new and devastating assault on his ethics.But when it did resume yesterday,…
A house divided.
The Progressive Conservative Party in Ontario is in turmoil. Since last Wednesday, the party has been playing its own Game of Thrones. Slights—real or imagined—are earning retaliation and factions of…
Chill the champagne! Market-fundamentalist newspaper owners primed for infusion of taxpayer cash!
PHOTOS: The Canadian newspaper industry celebrates the coming of tax subsidies from the federal government. Actual Canadian newspaper publishers may not appear exactly as illustrated – in this case, by…
The Tyranny of the Triggered
Modern society has become an ever expanding landscape of polarization and finger pointing that not only undermines our ability to discuss, but corrodes at the very foundation of our democracy.…
In Memoriam
Ibrahima Barry, aged 39 Mamadou Tanou Barry, aged 42 Khaled Belkacemi, aged 60 Aboubaker Thabti, aged 44 Abdelkrim Hassane, aged 41 Azzedine Soufiane, aged 57
The Tyranny of the Triggered
Modern society has become an ever expanding landscape of polarization and finger pointing that not only undermines our ability to discuss, but corrodes at the very foundation of our democracy.…
Robert Reich On The Universal Basic Income
More and more jobs are fated to disappear, thanks to monoliths like Amazon squeezing out other retail, thanks to autonomous vehicles close to becoming part of the mainstream, and for…
The US Has Military Bases in 80 Countries. All of Them Must Close.
Photo by DVIDSHUB On the weekend of Martin Luther King Day, Baltimore University fittingly hosted more than 200 activists in the peace, environment, and social-justice movements to launch a timely…
Watching the Grammys can age you
In a complete turn around to how we spend most evenings, my granddaughter watched the Grammys on TV last night while I watched on my iPad via youtube. She knew…
From my penpal Royal Galipeau
Royal and corresponded with each other: I’ll bet you didn’t know that. He favoured the old-fashioned writing of notes. I loved getting them, and am sad that – following his…
Our friend Loralea is running
And, that’s not all: I’m hearing Caroline Mulroney may not run for PC leader after all. That would certainly change the dynamic, quite a bit. Here’s some of the release…
How I’m seeing nowadays
Seriously, the head cold and the cough rattle your eyeballs.