Two solitudes – the pdf version #nlpoli
This is an article I wrote a couple of years ago for The Dorchester Review. (Volume 6, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2016. I posted about the piece when it came out…
April 2018
Canadians spit into the wind
Slowing of growth in carbon emissions falls well short of the sharp drop in carbon emissions thought necessary to achieve Paris climate goals. We need a far more decisive break…
III% Alberta Covered By CBC. Also, Angry III% Alberta Leader Doesn’t Understand Meaning of Words
Full disclosure. I was among those who were contacted by the CBC to provide some of the background for this story as well as sharing some of the screen shots…
Column: men who hate women aren’t men
It is a Monday, April 23, and it is beautiful. Clear, warm. A big blue sky. Exiting a Traveler’s Canada panel on distracted driving at the Economic Club, I stepped…
Was the UCP practicing ‘cultural Marxism’ when it fled the Legislature to avoid the ‘Bubble Zone’ debate?
We’re all “cultural Marxists” now, I guess. Consider Jason Kenney and the Legislative caucus of the ephemerally named political entity known as the United Conservative Party. (By which I mean,…
The Global Perspective: Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance
to order The Global Perspective from leftwingbooks.net click here In the 1970s and 80s, Torkil Lauesen was a member of a clandestine communist cell which carried out a series of…
Welcome Home Herman Bell!
On Friday, April 27, Herman Bell, a 70-year-old respected elder, was released after serving nearly 45 years in prison. Herman was one of thousands of incarcerated older people who was…
Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire
click here to order from leftwingbooks.net In this book, Matthew N. Lyons takes readers on a tour of neonazis and Christian theocrats, by way of the patriot movement, the LaRouchites,…
Montreal Anarchist Bookfair: May 26 & 27, 2018
Mark your calendars … MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2018 Two days: Saturday, May 26 & Sunday, May 27 From 10am to 5pm on both days The Anarchist Bookfair will take place…
Le Salon du livre anarchiste de Montréal: les 26 et 27 mai 2018
Préparez vos calendriers … LE SALON DU LIVRE ANARCHISTE DE MONTRÉAL 2018 Deux journées : samedi le 26 mai et dimanche le 27 mai De 10h à 17h les deux…
A Crackpot Posing as a Genius
I’ve been noticing many articles, recently, about the plight of loneliness. It’s now linked to anxiety and depression, and addiction, and a former US Surgeon General calls it the most…
Personal Will, Anyone?
Question: What do Stephen Hawking and Shamsia Husseini have in common? Answer: They both know the power of personal will. Ms Soapbox has been thinking a lot about “personal will”…
Well Here’s Your Problem, "Patriots". You Engage In Infighting Because You’re All Assholes
I know. Not exactly a dignified title, but the theme of the Islamophobic and bigoted "patriot" movement in Canada attacking each other has really become a cliché at this point.…
Doug Ford and the Rise of the Beastly Bigots
You don't see or hear much from Doug Ford these days. The Team Harper gang who are running his campaign are clearly planning to muzzle their monkey.And turn his bus…
A Simpsons milestone nobody is celebrating
According to the Internet (which, as we know, is never wrong), if you were to watch all 552 episodes of The Simpsons, it would cost you 12,144 minutes of your…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Martin Wolf reviews Mariana Mazzucato’s The Value of Everything, including its distinction between value creation and value extraction. And Yvonne Roberts points…
We get letters: a Jordan Peterson fan pops us a line
The best part is his email address at the top.
Full Of Sound And Fury
… signifying nothing. So says Macbeth about life in Act V Scene 5 of Shakespeare’s eponymous tragedy. He might also have been talking about the ‘policies’ of the Justin Trudeau…
Ford’s Definition Of Change
Doug Ford became the leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party by forming an alliance with Tanya Granic Allen. Martin Regg Cohn writes: Homophobia. Islamophobia. Anti-abortion hysteria and harassment. Demonizing…
Arguing ad nauseam with auditors.
Ontario auditor general Bonnie Lysyk looks like an auditor. She also thinks as an auditor. She is one of those people who always cover themselves by saying that they do…