Ignorance Is On The March
If you’re looking for a clue to what life will be like in the Era of Doug Ford, Rick Salutin writes that you should keep your eye on education. That’s…
June 2018
Why is the Manitoba Left Struggling?
Photo by Terence Faircloth, This is the second piece in a three-part blog series. In the first post, I provided an overview of Manitoba’s activist left. In this second piece,…
How to handle U.S. threats to Canadian trade
Photo by The White House Following his departure from the Charlevoix G7 Summit, Donald Trump took to Twitter to denounce the host, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him weak…
Letter to the People of Brazil
Photo by Agustin Marcarian/Reuters For two months now, I have been unjustly incarcerated without having committed any crime. For two months I have been unable to travel the country I…
A fleeting fondness for Ford.
Does premier Ford really feel the love? Sorry Dougie, it’s temporary. The same rage as put a Ford in the premier’s office can just as quickly send him to the…
vancouver island day six: mill bay, duncan, chemainus
After breakfast, we packed up and said a reluctant goodbye to this cozy spot — mostly the deck with the view — and headed north on the Trans-Canada Highway, towards…
Well Worth a Read. 1965, June Callwood’s, "In Defence of the Parliamentary Press Gallery."
A blast from the past and a breath of fresh air. June Callwood’s stirring defence of the Parliamentary Press Gallery as it then was when journalists and politicians truly despised…
Trump’s anti-Canadian antics are good news for Alberta pipeline advocates – whether or not that was the plan
U.S. President Donald Trump may not actually have intended to deliver a blow to West Coast environmentalists opposed to the completion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project, but he…
July by-elections called in two UCP-friendly districts.
Photo: Laila Goodridge, Jane Stroud, Nicole Mooney, and Abigail Douglass By-elections were called today and will be held in the provincial districts of Innisfail-Sylvan Lake and Fort McMurray-Conklin on July…
Why Is Andrew Scheer Trying to Kill Plans to Legalize Marijuana?
If everything had gone according to plan, marijuana would have been legalized in this country on July 1, Canada's birthday.But now it looks as if we will have to wait…
Stephen Colbert Takes Aim At Trump’s Hot Date With Kim Jong Un
Well by now we all know about Donald Trump's new bromance with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.And how he likes Kim more than he likes Justin Trudeau.Which can…
Inside One of Donald Trump’s Prison For Children
It's called the Case Padre or Father House in English. It looks at first glance like a school or a recreation centre.But it's actually a converted Walmart where the Trump…
What Is The Real Reason Donald Trump Went After Justin Trudeau?
It made no sense at the time, and it still doesn't. Why did Trump suddenly turn Justin Trudeau into a mortal enemy?Why of all countries would he bash his G7…
Having fun with brushes in Procreate.
A fairly restrained, maybe tentative use of a custom brush in Procreate. If you use the app, you can find that drip shape. Watercolour splotches are fun An unrestrained use…
The Free World Has a Bad Case of the Trumps. But That’s Only a Symptom.
Brit journo, Paul Mason, is no friend of America’s Mango Mussolini but, like a growing chorus of critics, he sees Trump as a symptom of a greater contagion. Mason has…
Der Spiegel Conducts a Biopsy on Liberal Democracy and the Authoritarians Seeking to Destroy It
Der Spiegel has published a two-part special on the rise of authoritarianism and the threat it poses to the continuation of liberal democracy. Not surprisingly, the focus is on Trump,…
Episode 13: Doug Ford’s big win, Andrew Scheer’s deal with the Cheese Mafia, and more.
In this episode of the Daveberta Podcast, Dave Cournoyer and Ryan Hastman discuss Doug Ford’s win in Ontario’s election, the NDP’s mid-campaign surge, and the Green Party’s surprising growth across…
June 14: In a world of extremes.
There’s not much on this story yet. But it looks interesting. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/new-york-attorney-general-sues-trump-foundation-1.4705730______________________________________________________________Nah. If this were happening, the irving press would have told us. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/antarctic-ice-sheet-1.4703952____________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/13/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-fox-news-human-rights Well, that’s reasonable. After all,…
It begins
At a pub in London last night, I was telling a British-Canadian friend that Trump can pardon himself, and his reptilian children, out of federal crimes – but not state-level…
Preston Goes "Full Churl" on Trudeau
Whatever he might once have been, Preston Manning has become the old man sitting on the front porch rocker yelling at the Future to “get the fuck off my lawn.”…