Photo by Dan Lin China’s economic reforms started exactly forty years ago. Labour scholars today are debating the extent to which labour relations and the labour movement in China have…
Maybe we should be grateful to Saudi crown prince Thuggo bin Salman and his Wahhabist hissy fit in reaction to a Canadian call for an end to that regime’s utter…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Ainslie Cruickshank reports on Grand Chief Stewart Phillip’s call to prevent catastrophic climate change rather than devoting public money toward fossil fuel subsidies.…
Two things. First, bravo to Canada for standing up for human rights. Perhaps, due to the encroaching tide of nativist hate from starboard, we will have to stand alone. But…
It’s been a year since alt.right/white supremacists clashed with protesters in Charlotesville and put an end to the myth of a post-racial America. NBC marks the outrage with a documentary,…
It had been a while since I walked down Lajoie (great name) during summer, but I did this week. What a delight to see that the folks who own the…
Ruth Marcus writes that Paul Manafort is, indeed, a man of mystery: The mystery — a mystery to me at least — is comprehending the magnitude of Manafort’s greed. Assuming…
So, we got massively screwed over in a deal to find a new cabin in Northumberland County, on the big old Lake Ontario. A big mess. (There will be consequences.)…
It has to be this hot summer. It is either that or we have some of the stupidest politicians in the world right here in tropical Ontario. Premier Ford and…
Surprisingly, as far as we know, neither Opposition Leader Jason Kenney nor any members of his United Conservative Party Legislative Caucus made it to the Flat Earth International Conference at…
Eli and Fur – You’re So High
Assorted content to end your week. – David Moscrop makes the case for a long-overdue inheritance tax in Canada: Over time, if left unchecked, capitalism facilitates the pooling of wealth…
So, according to the bright lights on the Calgary Herald’s editorial board, Pride needs to become about including everyone, including those who have a track record of oppressing the LGBT…
It's now been four days since the clown prince of Saudi Arabia launched a deranged assault against Canada. Trying to damage our economy, our schools, and our hospitals.But still the…
How one American, the Washington Post’s J.J. McCullough, sees incoherence in our prime minister’s foreign policy and the role it played in Canada’s current tiff with the Saudis. The worsening…
No matter where you live in Canada – north/south, east/west – you’ve experienced climate change impacts this summer, just like most people in the rest of the world. We’ve had…
According to Joey Deluca of the WCAI during an interview with angry raccoons trapped in burlap sack Duke Willis, the racist rally he had been planning for tomorrow will proceed….…
It’s safe to assume that Canada will not receive any “wish you were here” cards from the Kingdom of Saud. But, Tom Walkom writes, Canadians need not get exorcised about…
