Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Peter Goodman discusses how austerity has changed society for the worse in the UK: For a nation with a storied history of…
May 2018
Well Liberals, You’re In the Bitumen Business Now
The Trudeau government has bought out Kinder Morgan. $4.5 billion. Canada is now a player in all things Tar Sands. No private sector buyer was interested in picking up the…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday May 29, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Ontario employers are prohibited from discrimination and harassment against any…
Ask a York U. kid
They’ll tell you. #ONDP = endless strikes. #OLP should’ve been exploiting that obvious vulnerability weeks ago. Surprised #ONPC hasn’t yet. It was low-hanging fruit. #onpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May…
Nothing To Do With Families
The Republican Party used to style itself as the party of family values. It has now officially adopted a policy of breaking up families. Richard Wolff writes: Earlier this month,…
This Artist Wants You to Buy All His Personal Data on eBay
Oli Frost got inspired by companies earning profit from his data and decided to sell it directly to anybody who wants it. He’s downloaded all his data from Facebook (and…
Yes, but did the fat lady sing?
Listening to and reading analyses of the Sunday night political leaders’ debate in Toronto, you wonder if they were at the same debate. Frankly, the analyses were better than the…
The Second ‘Thousand-Year’ Storm In Two Years
Try telling the people of Ellicott City, Maryland, that climate change is a hoax. The Washington Post, in a detailed analysis of this flood, has this to say about the…
Ontario Election: Impact on Inequality of Fiscal Plans
In the context of Ontario’s upcoming June 7 election, I just finalized an article on the CCPA’s “Behind the Numbers” blog, exploring the fiscal plans of the three major political…
Updates on Proud Boys Brandon Vaughan and Robert Jones, Meir Weinstein, Faith Goldy, and Doug Ford
We certainly weren't the first to report that Brandon Vaughan, a member of the Proud Boys, had been indicted for assaulting a Palestinian-American last spring in Washington D.C., but he…
Ferry innovation? Wazzat?
The Havyard shipyard announced that it received a contract to build seven battery-powered ferries for Fjord1, Norwegian transport conglomerate. The news comes after the operators of the first all-electric ferry…
The Incredible Crassness of Donald Trump
As we all know by now, Donald Trump is a man without a moral compass, and without a discernible trace of human decency,And this tweet on Memorial Day, the day…
Ontario Election: Riding by Riding Poll Numbers
Whether you plan to vote strategically or you are curious to see how your riding is shaping up, the tooclosetocall site has an excellent Ontario Elections Simulator that crunches the…
About that “sorry not sorry” ad
Whoever came up with this fetid, squalid, shambolic atrocity should be – in the memorable words of a certain Campaign Wizard™️ – hauled into the village square and pilloried. It…
Doug Ford and the Missing Campaign Platform
I watched last night's Ontario election debate, and when it was over I couldn't decide who had won it, Kathleen Wynne or Andrea Horwath.I thought both Wynne and Horwath put…
Your Alberta Propaganda
WARNING: The following blog post contains government propaganda (literally). Reading it may cause a warped sense of reality, and loss of your bearings. It’s repulsive that @YourAlberta Government is paying…
Try to Come Up With a More Fitting Word than "Asshole."
Today is Memorial Day in America, the day each year when the people of the United States are supposed to venerate the country’s war dead. As in people who actually…
Buck A Beer Will Crush Craft Brewers
A ‘buck a beer’ campaign is a desperate plot playing to a base of people that should understand just how destructive the promise actually is.
The Ontario Election isn’t about Deficits, and that’s a good thing
Photo from Public Domain How big is your deficit? This Ontario election, no one seems to care – and that’s a decisive positive to emerge from a campaign that’s too…
Talk About Going Hog Wild With the Company Credit Card
You may remember her for helping Stephen Harper dodge a bullet when then governor general, Michaelle Jean, consented to Shifty Steve proroguing Parliament. You’re less apt to remember that she…