Times Are Tough For Red Tories
The irony of the Ontario Tory leadership race is that deposed — now back in the game leader — Patrick Brown is the only Red Tory in the race. And…
February 2018
Please God make it stop
Please.
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Noah Smith comments on the damaging effects of corporate concentration for workers, consumers and even the financial sector: The biggest threat from the…
Saturday Photo: Pot Hole Season…
Actually the ones this year are worse. The photo was taken a couple of years ago after some of the pot holes were filled. This year, though, we’ve had rock…
Elitism bites Trudeau’s ass.
It is hard to say what embarrasses Canadians more. Seeing pictures of Trudeau and his family dressing up Bollywood-style to the amusement of the Indian Sub-continent is bad enough. As…
Ten proposals from the 2018 Alternative Federal Budget
I’ve written a blog post about this year’s Alternative Federal Budget (AFB). Points raised in the blog post include the following: -This year’s AFB would create 470,000 (full-time equivalent) jobs…
Tweet of the week, folks
No doubt Mr. Brown would like to turn over a new page. As it were. — Jim Maclean (@CrustyMaclean) February 24, 2018
Musical interlude
Santigold – Disparate Youth
One man’s struggle against boredom
In the article More Energy Ministry duplicity, I wrote: Deputy Minister Dave Nikolejsin’s employment cost taxpayers almost $350,000 in the last fiscal year, including $90,255 in expenses, an amount that…
So, About Those Laura Loomer Legal Costs…..
It has been a while since ARC posted a story concerning Ezra Levant and "Rebel Media." In some ways they seem to have recovered from the disastrous spring and summer…
I’ve About Had It With Amerika
Wayne La Pierre, Dana the Douche Loesch, the NRA and seemingly unstoppable plague of school mass killings, America’s malignant gun culture, Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, FOX & Friends, Hannity, Limbaugh…
Park board approves Vancouver’s World Cup bid
Jessica Kerr / Vancouver Courier February 22, 2018 02:33 PM The park board is on board with Vancouver’s bid to be a host city if the World Cup comes to…
Donald Trump’s Cheat Sheet Exposed.
How is a very stable genius supposed to cope with meeting the survivors of a school shooting and their parents? How do you handle it when there are cameras rolling…
Avalanche! Rick Gates to Plead Guilty.
There were some who thought Omerta might just save the Trump gang. For a while it looked as though Paul Manafort’s understudy, Rick Gates, would tough it out and refuse…
Standing Rock is Everywhere
Around the world, indigenous peoples are occupying the front lines in the battle to defend the planet’s environment. Chief Avrol Looking Horse, spiritual leader of the Lakota, Dakota, Nakota people,…
The night the pigs attacked a Muslim woman in a church
Here’s the scene: We were in a church. There was a choir singing upstairs. People were sitting, quietly, with their kids. And then the pigs got up on their hind…
The Guardian Meets Charles Dickens
When it comes to my daily scour of the news it always starts with a quick scan of the CBC website and then on to the serious stuff, beginning with…
Strange bedfellows: Greenpeace, CAPP Team Up in Court Case on Alberta’s Abandoned Wells
The Alberta government and an unlikely crew of allies — including Greenpeace, an oil lobbying firm, Ecojustice and attorneys general of four different provinces — are squaring off with ATB…
We Shall See
When it comes to gun violence in the United States, Michael Harris gets down to the nitty gritty. Consider, for instance, how much money the NRA has donated to American…
Why is a quarter of Canada’s prison population Indigenous?
The recent decision by an all-white jury to acquit Gerald Stanley, the killer of Colten Boushie calls on us all to confront systematic racism and demand reforms to Canada’s justice…