Being able to perceive complex elements of the world immediately around us isn’t something we’re just automatically able to do – it’s a capacity, or really many different capacities, that…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David McGrane writes about Jack Layton’s five great fights – and how they continue to provide an essential framework for social democrats. –…
It might be a cliché, but this is MY cliché
Perhaps Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives have been in the wilderness for so long because they have a talent for screwing things up. Martin Regg Cohn thinks so. They elected a leader…
Recently, a friend and I railed at how homeless people on the street are ignored. “What kind of a society do we live in where we step over another human…
We’ve added something new to our streaming capabilities: AppleTV. I never thought I’d own an Apple product, but one app made it irresistible: CraveTV. Crave is a Canadian streaming service…
It couldn't have been a more revealing contrast. Andrew Scheer gathered with his Con caucus in Victoria.Plotting 101 ways to destroy Justin Trudeau, in a small sweaty room reeking of…
President Donald Trump of the U.S.A. went to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland the other day. Few of the attendees at the world convention of capitalism cared. The…
Heading back to TeeDot this morn after a great time in Calgary. I did some radio and TV stuff at CBC Calgary yesterday – on #MeToo but also Kent Hehr,…
It has been a while since ARC last wrote about Mark and Connie Fournier of the (not so) dearly departed Free Dominion. While ARC certainly had a rather contentious relationship…
Henrik B feat. Christian Alvestam – Now and Forever
Assorted content to end your week. – Wanda Wyporska discusses why we can’t expect a group of cloistered elites to do anything to solve the changeable dimensions of inequality. –…
On January 15, Councillor Bob Madigan made a motion (seconded, of course, by his puppetmaster, Deputy Mayor Saunderson) to limit the progress of the Indigo/Eden-Oak/McNabb development at the south end…
A new proposal to send power from B.C.’s Site C dam to remote Yukon mines is baffling on both environmental and financial grounds, according to Yukon mining analyst Lewis Rifkind.…
Dear #onpoli: Just got out of teaching my @UCalgary law class and learned #PCPO picked Vic Fedeli. Um, when your party’s problem is out-of-touch guys who don’t get it, you…
There have been rumblings from time to time about Dutch and German intelligence services knowing something, perhaps a lot, about Russian efforts to meddle in America’s 2016 presidential election. It…
Chapter 10 of Ijeoma Oluo’s deeply valuable So You Want to Talk About Race focuses on the how to appreciate culture instead of appropriate it. It debates whether white people…
Chapter 9 of Ijeoma Oluo’s awesome So You Want to Talk About Race focuses on the debate about whether various people can/should say the “N” word. When I watched Dear…
Chapter 9 of Ijeoma Oluo’s awesome So You Want to Talk About Race focuses on how systemic racism in institutions like school create a recipe for failure for non-whites. This…
When the White House tried to hit up the Guggenheim Museum for a loan of Van Gogh’s Landscape with Snow, the museum had to turn him down but didn’t want…
