West Virginia teachers strike to win
This episode is dedicated to the recent, inspiring and victorious teachers’ strike in West Virginia. West Virginia teachers went out on strike in late February over low pay and continued…
March 2018
Cambridge Analytica and Its Cast of Shady Characters
The journos are having a field day with this. The Cambridge Analytica scandal is chock full of shady characters, an odd percentage of them with seeming links to Russia. There…
Faith Goldy and Students for Western Civilization
NOTE: If this is your first visit to Anti-Racist Canada, hi! Nice to meet you! Be sure to try the veal at the buffet.It is also likely that you are…
Doug Ford and the Tin-Pot Northern Trump
I'm always glad to get back to Canada, even after the shortest trips abroad. Especially at this time of the year, when if you bundle up it almost feels like…
Donald Trump and the Mad Bomber
Well so much for the theory that Donald Trump could be controlled by saner men than him.First he had his faithful minion, John Kelly, fire his Secretary of State Rex…
Harper Aide, Bruce Carson, Heading for Another Stretch in the Greybar Hotel
Like where in hell did he get the money to pay for an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada? Bruce Carson has lost an appeal against conviction for influence…
A Broad Canvas
If, like me, you are a retired senior to whom the fates have been reasonably kind, you have the luxury to contemplate the world around you at your leisure. If…
When Stupidity Marries Insanity
Yesterday, Donald Trump announced $60 billion dollars of tariffs against China. Today, China announced its own tariffs on American goods. Paul Krugman writes that, when it comes to trade, China…
The Very Best Day
Photo by the Kremlin On March 3rd, 2018, the main pre-election rally for Vladimir Putin took place at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. Tens of thousands of public sector workers…
Jordan Peterson watch: lies about being “inducted” into a First Nation
Here: Jordan peterson is a University of Toronto psychology professor, bestselling author, culture warrior, YouTube celebrity, and a growing presence in Canadian conservative politics. The one thing he is most…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Owen Jones discusses the need for wealth taxes as part of any plan to meaningfully reduce economic inequality: Much is made of income…
Ungoverned Space
I have an essay in CIGI’s new data governance series, called Ungoverned Space: How Surveillance Capitalism and AI Undermine Democracy. My key points are: The threat to democracy from misinformation…
Adler-Kinsella: why the Wylie scandal matters
Fifty billion in market value, gone. One of the biggest companies in the world in chaos. Governments announcing probes. And the Trudeau government looking quite nervous. Charles Adler and me…
Can you put it on a hat?
We used to use bumper stickers but cars do not have bumpers any more. Now we are running campaigns that you can put on a hat. We are producing hats…
Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci, a New Democrat, delivers a traditional Progressive Conservative budget
PHOTOS: Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci, Below: A slimmed-down Jason Kenney, leader of the United Conservative Party, and Stephen Mandel, Leader of the Alberta Party, at the Legislature for Mr.…
Dear John letter
A letter republished with permission of the BC Hydro Ratepayers Association. Dear Premier Horgan…
Only in Alberta are the biggest deficits and lowest taxes so completely irreconcilable
“When the global price of oil collapsed and the recession hit, we had a choice: Cut or build. We chose to build. In making that choice, we focused on the…
A. Meet with the police.
Q. On the day the new Your Ward News – that racist, anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying, Islamophobic, women-hating piece of garbage – comes out, what do you do?