Eating OFF the Hill: Day One in Quebec City
I’m off to Quebec City until Sunday for my summer break, deciding to spend my vacation dollars North of the border for the foreseeable future — as much as I…
July 2018
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Crashed cats.
July 31: Worse and worse.
There will probably be no blog on August 2. I shall probably be visiting family at a nearby shore.___________________________________________________________ Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump FollowFollow @realDonaldTrump More Wow, highest Poll…
The Browning of America
It can fairly be said that Donald Trump’s “base” comprises that segment of the population that is terrified of losing their grip on the United States – fearful white folks.…
I wish I could be calm and quietly articulate about this betraying lying bastard.
Outrage and anger comes first. Funny, maybe, comes later.
Unprecedented Crime. Is Trudeau Running Out of Time?
Will Justin Trudeau and our other petro-pols eventually be prosecuted for crimes against humanity? Are they writing their own ticket to the prisoners’ dock? If you find that hard to…
Value Creation vs Value Extraction in Today’s Economy
Book Review Mariana Mazzucato. The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy. Allen Lane. 2018. The playwright Oscar Wilde quipped that a cynic is a person who…
Danforth Shooting: Islamophobes Continue To Push Disinformation and False Information As Truth
It has been a little over a week since the horrible tragedy in Toronto's Danforth area occurred that resulted in the murder of a young woman and a child with…
Sudden closing of polling oversight group could mean Albertans never see report on botched Calgary polls
If you were wondering about that inquiry by the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association into inaccurate polling that marred the October 2017 Calgary civic election, don’t hold your breath. Publication…
Ontario Climate Action Under Doug Ford
With Doug Ford and Progressive Conservative Party taken over fifteen years of Liberal rule in Ontario, what happens next with climate action in Canada’s largest province? Four industry experts share…
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Is This the New World
We keep reading about our new aristocracy, the plutocrats with their grand houses and luxury. Our political caste, including our prime minister, hob nob with them. The less elegant Scheer…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – David MacDonald studies the increasing concentration of wealth in Canada, while noting the need for wealth-based taxes (and particularly an inheritance tax)…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday July 31, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Did you know that a probationary period may go longer…
what i’m reading: collected (and amazing) nonfiction by saul bellow
When the author Saul Bellow died in 2005 at the age of 90, I was saddened and disappointed by the scant attention paid to his passing. Bellow was one of…
Change vs. More of the same
That was the frame in the epic 1992 Clinton vs. Bush matchup. I talked to James Carville about it for my book The War Room. Snippet here: In 1992, the…
Betraying Workers
Donald Trump came to power claiming he would be the working man’s president. Paul Krugman writes: By now, it’s almost a commonplace to say that Trump has systematically betrayed the…
A response to Don May
In a recent email, Don May took several shots at me and my integrity. I expected this and similar attacks from Saunderson’s followers – and May is an admitted supporter…