Ed Greenspon and I have just published a report as a collaboration between the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Public Policy Forum, called Democracy Divided:…
Andrew Scheer had hoped that the Con convention in Halifax would be a shiny affair, a glitzy political coming out ball. Where he would introduce himself to the millions of…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Emma Paling discusses how the security of a basic income provides the opportunity to escape an abusive relationship. And Jim Stanford collects…
Doug Ford showed up at the Conservative convention last week and didn’t say anything about immigration. But, Martin Regg Cohn writes, that doesn’t mean he hasn’t made himself known on…
Toronto council has made a bad move. They are, in effect, fighting ‘city hall.’ Because city hall for cities in Canada are the provincial and territorial governments. I am not…
Ontario’s government has launched an online portal for parents to report teachers who they believe aren’t following the current curriculum. Teachers who use the previous Liberal government’s sex education curriculum…
The folks a couple of blocks away have not one, but two electric cars. Each cost a pretty penny, I’m sure. But so did their house, which they’ve spent a…
John McCain has succumbed to brain cancer at age 81. A far from perfect man with a sometimes mercurial temper, McCain nevertheless even in death towers over his sordid adversary…
NOTE: The majority of the information that resulted in this article comes from two sources who were working independently of each other and who both provided ARC with their research.…
As usual, Robert Reich is spot-on in his insights. Here, he offers some solid advice to real journalists on how they should cover Trump: Recommend this Post
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Melissa Benn discusses how private schools entrench a class divide within a generation – and argues that they should be eliminated in favour…
This blog may be a little short since I am being coerced into going to the shore to sinfully frolic in the surf._______________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/25/trumps-terrible-week-stunning-news-and-whispers-of-impeachment If Trump is impeached, disposed of…
During the runup to the 2016 presidential election, the National Enquirer went on a full court press to malign Hillary Clinton and tout for Donald Trump. I know, I know,…
Rocinha Favela in Brazil. The transformation to a neo-colonial world has only begun, but it promises to be as drastic, as disorienting a change as was the original european colonial…
It says something not very flattering about Andrew Scheer, that they still have to write his name in big letters behind him, for the benefit of all those Canadians who…
As I said in a recent post, this is the kind of place I'd like to see Donald Trump end up in one day.Just slightly smaller, and without those hot…
Donald Trump’s world is falling apart. Now that David Pecker has turned on him, more nasty stuff is emerging. CNN reports: A former Trump World Tower doorman who says he…
Two Canucks on the mid-terms campaign trail. The elderly woman approached us at the corner of Wythburn Road and Mardale Avenue, in South Portland. She squinted at us. We’d seen…
