Column: Trudeau is losing
Could Justin Trudeau lose the next election? Well, sure he could. In strictly existential terms, you are always facing political death. The distance from hero to zero is very slight.…
July 2018
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Lisa Gennetian discusses how behavioural economics can inform the development of programs to end child poverty – including by ensuring a guaranteed income…
Sales people can be the easiest sale.
Justin Trudeau blew it the other day. His task was simple. He was to sell Premier Ford of Ontario on helping to save the environment. And while he was at…
Guest Article: New Developments in Quebec Racism, Fascism and Nationalist Fuckery
Quebec correspondent here. It’s been a while. Are you ready for a roundup of what’s been happening here in 2018? Here we go: When we last spoke, Dave Treg (formerly…
Overheard at Rachel’s Cocktail Party
It was packed, absolutely packed, at Rachel Notley’s cocktail party at Hotel Arts in Calgary last Wednesday. The event was billed as an evening of cocktails and conversation with Rachel…
in which we do something i thought i’d never do: say goodbye to our vinyl
Through all our years together, and all the different places we have lived, Allan and I have hung on to our large collection of vinyl LPs. Most people I know…
When life defies satire
Here. You can’t make this stuff up, etc.
When Is A Scab Not A Scab?
When (s)he is a ‘replacement worker’. I have always loved the word ‘scab’. A fitting description of strikebreakers, it is a word that conjures up ugly imagery, imagery quite appropriate…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ed Finn writes that we shouldn’t believe claims that Canada lacks money for social benefits when Lib and Con governments have deliberately…
kevin baker in harpers: "the death of a once great city — the fall of new york and the urban crisis of affluence"
Everyone who cares about cities, about privatization, and frankly, about humans and our ability to live on our planet, should make time to read the July cover story in Harper’s…
No More Parties?
As discussion in the public square gets uglier and uglier, Andrew Nikiforuk returns to a suggestion Simone Weil made over eighty-five years ago: It’s time to abolish political parties: Simone…
You get what you pay for.
It comes as a surprise to learn that the new democrats across Canada are a bunch of paupers. We are told that they are not paying Jagmeet Singh for his…
Not only cream rises to the top
Senior RCMP management failed to deal with many harassment complaints and that is costing taxpayers plenty. A class action settlement originally thought to involve 500 victims and a cost of…
Michele Tittler Being Arraigned on July 9 Charged With Three Counts
When the Idle No More movement began, a number of First Nations activists were able to achieve considerable success in using the media to get their message out to the…
The threats have been pretty swell, too
Half of them are trolls who think the sun shines out of Trudeau’s ass, and who think it’s therefore okay to slime my wife for what her husband thinks. So,…
CTV Responds To Allegations That It Defamed Patrick Brown
With the political weaponization of the #metoo movement for partisan purposes, and questions surrounding the media’s active role in it, CTV has filed a statement of defense against a lawsuit…