Donald Trump, James Comey, and the Great Distraction
It was quite a performance by Donald Trump, one that no doubt made millions of people wonder they would survive him. For first he went after the former FBI director…
April 2018
How Andrew Scheer Was Duped By An India Story. Again
Ever since Justin Trudeau's trip to India was made to look like a disaster by the shabby stooges in the Con media, Andrew Scheer has gone crazy with Indian fever.He's…
Change
The Toronto Star editorializes this morning on the subject of change: Newness is exciting. Improvement always beckons. The grass, as someone who understood human yearning once noted, usually seems greener…
Standing with BC’s John Horgan.
It is a memory from many years ago that sticks with you. It is this time of year. After being awakened by the sweeps rowers training on the harbour, you…
Well, With the Week He’s Had Who Wouldn’t Want to Let Off a Little Steam?
The United States has launched missile strikes against government targets in Syria. This time Britain and France tossed in a few missiles of their own, brothers in arms sort of…
Horgan’s Reasonable Overture
British Columbia premier, John Horgan, has an eminently reasonable solution to Justin Trudeau’s and Rachel Notley’s pipeline fetish – refine that cruddy bitumen here and sell it on the Canadian…
Musical interlude
Eels – Last Stop: This Town
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Sean Farrell reports on a new OECD study recommending the application of inheritance taxes to reduce wealth inequality. – And Harry Quilter-Pinner discusses…
Not only is this kid like me
…my Mom says he is me. She says I did exactly this with her and my Dad.
New Ontario Liberal ad?
An effective attack ad shouldn’t merely repeat things voters already knew, and have already dismissed and discounted. This is phoning it in. It isn’t going to change minds.
The Contemporary Relevance of Karl Polanyi
The political economist Karl Polanyi, author of the 1944 volume The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, is arguably better known today than during his lifetime.…
A New Problem – Oceanic Heat Waves
It’s only logical that global warming would not spare our oceans. Not only do they absorb most, about 70%, of our atmospheric carbon dioxide, resulting in worsening acidification, but the…
A Yelp on steroids
A smart CBC Winnipeg reporter contacted me this week about a fascinating story. It’s here: Snippet below: Kinsella, who is a Toronto-based lawyer and author, said businesses have the right…
Insurgent Supremacists Book Launch: A discussion with author Matthew Lyons (Philly, May 16)
available for pre-order from leftwingbooks.net WHEN: Wednesday, May 16 at 7 PM – 9 PM WHERE: Wooden Shoe Books and Records, 704 South St, Philadelphia, facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2053452598230072/ Philly Antifa presents…
Globe and Mail oped: The era of Big Tech self-governance has come to an end
A piece in the Globe and Mail on the Zuckerberg hearings: The era of Big Tech self-governance has come to an end Twenty years ago, another young Silicon Valley tycoon…
How Democracy Dies. The Orban Template.
Hungary is now, essentially, a totalitarian state – within the European Union, within NATO. In Andrew Sullivan’s column in New York magazine, Yascha Mounk explains how democracy died this week…
A Terrible Foreboding. Trump in Meltdown.
There’s never a calm moment when America is ruled by someone as mentally unstable and unfit for office as the current White House occupant, the Mango Mussolini, Donald J. Trump.…
A World in Peril, the Great Atlantic Conveyor
One thing all petro-pols learn quickly is how to turn their backs on calamities closing in on us. And, yes, that includes Justin Trudeau. He’s in the club. So, when…
The EDF Fights Back
I’ve never heard of an environmental group with its own satellite but it’s sure to fire a rocket up the arse of the fossil fuelers and every petro-pol on the…
Defining The National Interest
As the video included in yesterday’s post shows, Justin Trudeau likes to defend the twinning of the Trans Mountain pipeline as in ‘the national interest.” The term itself is a…