The Greening Of Canada?
Michael Harris is making predictions this morning — and they’re really quite intriguing. Last time around, he writes, the Liberals won because they ran against Stephen Harper. Harper won’t be…
August 2018
I unreservedly support you except for the times I don’t
Hi candidate Jen Keesmaat, meet Chief Planner Jen Keesmaat from last September. She thinks Mayor Tory "deserves a mandate to continue the work he's already begun." #TOpoli pic.twitter.com/pFto6lO5iI — Andrew…
Justin Trudeau and the Right-Wing Assault on Canada
Justin Trudeau has had to deal with all kinds of crazed hecklers as he travels across the country.There's one being removed from a town hall in Quebec City last January,…
Collingwood’s pot problem
Two months from now, Canada’s federal government will make marijuana legal. Laws will allow it to be sold in private stores, smoked, eaten and even grown in your home. There…
“The shape of things to come”
Writer H.G. Wells would be astounded by the possible changes in the Canadian political landscape over the coming year. Events commencing this year will culminate in the federal election planned…
Want to Impress Your Colleagues? Be Honest With Yourself
Many people want to change how their coworkers or their boss views them in the workplace, and no matter the reason for wanting a change there are tons of suggestions…
Column: Sir John A. was a racist
BOSTON – What never moves and never talks, but is too often racist? Statues, of course. They’re lifeless. Down here in America, but also back home in Canada. Statues paying…
We are the cause, we are the solution
BC Government webpages pay little or no attention to climate change as a driver of wildfire. Public servants have sound advice for homeowners and recreationalists but government provides few comments…
Forget what they say, watch what they do
Pal explained that I had wasted time reading platforms and promises. He said the only method of judging real intentions is to scrutinize a politician’s finances. Give me a list…
U.S. and Canadian right-wing politicians march in lockstep as they dismiss facts as conspiracy, disagreement as criminality
Apparently infected by the decline of political discourse in the United States, the Canadian right is increasingly moving toward defining the use of facts that run counter to its narrative…
Fifteen Bucks an Hour
The government is gradually increasing Alberta’s minimum wage from $10.20 in Oct 2015 and to a cap of $15/hour in Oct 2018. Fifteen bucks an hour. This increase is not…
Keesmaat’s former boss: she’s an opportunist – and she never got anything done
Ouch. “Nothing definitive was achieved ,” he said. “No agreements were reached, no final positions were established.” He said Gillespie only learned of her decision to run for mayor on…
Vancouver Island Soldiers of Odin Don’t Appear At Discontent City in Nanaimo
Though they had threatened to remove the homeless camp in Nanaimo by force, it appears at this point that the Soldiers of Odin have not made good on their threat.…
1st Annual Halifax Anarchist Bookfair
Halifax Anarchist Bookfair – Sept. 8th, 2018! ~For anarchists, and those curious about anarchism~ FREE – Welcome to all. Calling all co-conspirators and collaborators, lovers of freedom and books, haters…
Storm Alliance Staged Confrontation With Prime Minister
Back in January when Justin Trudeau was participating in a number of town halls across the country, he was also being heckled by some of the folks ARC has covered…
Here’s One You Might Never Have Heard Of – "Shit-Life Syndrome."
Where is Charles Dickens now that we need him back? Or even Mark Twain. A word about “Shit-Life Syndrome.” I didn’t make that up. It’s a term apparently coined by…
Petro-State Purgatory for Canada
Worsening wildfires for British Columbia, perma-drought for the Prairies. How’s that sound? A remarkably candid report from the Calgary Herald explores the future that awaits western Canada. Hint, it’s not…
Just For the Record. Vanishing Arctic Ice and India’s Monsoon
India is currently enduring the worst Monsoon flooding in at least a century. It doesn’t sound that uncommon. Every part of the world is now hit by global weirding of…
The Scheer Cons and the Bernier Nightmare
As Mad Max Bernier Bernier comes back from the dead, and threatens to eat the Con convention, I can only imagine how Andrew Scheer must be feeling.Once he might have…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Linda Solomon Wood comments on the absurdity of the federal cabinet meeting in a province facing rampant wildfires and not planning to…