Photo: Then-rookie PC candidate Sandra Jansen at an election rally in 2012, pictured with then-Premier Alison Redford (right) and now UCP candidate Jason Luan (left). Former PC MLA Sandra Jansen…
Notice to readers: I expect to be on the road for a few days and so AlbertaPolitics.ca is officially closed for vacation. Which, as regular readers of this blog will…
The once reliably Republican pundit, Max Boot, now says Trump should not be in the White House but rather the Big House, the Greybar Hotel. Boot even channels Oliver Cromwell.…
….I’d hate to see what came second…..______________________________________________________________ https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/saudi-arabia-seeks-death-penalty-for-woman-activist-1.640903 This is from Saudi Arabia, a close ally of the U.S. in its zeal to spread democracy and human rights, in (with…
The fallout from Le Troupeau‘s expose of Diane Blain and her association with the Storm Alliance and Front Patriotique du Québec continues to reverberate in Canadian political news. To recap,…
Don’t mourn! Organize! — Joe Hill, Swedish-American union organizer As happens each year at this time, I’m rendered almost speechless by the loss of Jack Layton, seven years ago today.…
Forest fires. Flooding. Drought. Algal blooms in our lakes. Extreme temperatures. People dying in heat waves. Climate change and its effects have been headline news this year more than ever.…
The expression of outrage can serve a useful purpose, no doubt. It can promote new awareness that facilitates change; it can lead to levels of engagement that ultimately may improve…
On Earthgauge Radio this week, I was pleased to speak with Juliet Schor. She’s a professor of sociology at Boston University and author of the best-selling 1992 book ‘The Overworked…
There are now more than 500 forest fires currently burning out of control in BC. Apparently almost the entire province is now blanketed in smoke as well as parts of…
https://earthgauge.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/18-08-20_mixdown_mono.mp3 A Canadian environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Broadcast every other Tuesday at 12:00 noon EST on CKCU radio 93.1 FM in Ottawa…
It seemed like a no brainer to me. Justin Trudeau is heckled by the anti-immigration white supremacist bigot Diane Blain. He tells her firmly but politely that racism has no…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson and Fernando Rios-Avila study the economic well-being of U.S. households, and find a stagnant standard of living including a…
Originally posted at Kevin “Rashid” Johnson’s website at http://rashidmod.com/?p=2585 The rising new prison movement Across Amerika (home of the world’s largest prison population) growing numbers of the imprisoned are coming…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday August 22, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on Aug…
So, CBC’s Neil MacDonald published this screed defending Maxime Bernier’s stream of tweets about “extreme multiculturalism” this week. In an e-mail conversation about it, here’s what I wrote, explaining why…
The undersigned, ORIGINAL PEOPLES AND ORGANIZATIONS IN MEXICO’S VALLEY through this political positioning: We reaffirm our autonomy and self-determination, as well as independence from political parties and unsupported assembly “advisors”.…
The story of Rudi Giuliani’s evolution — devolution is a better word — reflects the madness of today’s politics. Lawrence Martin writes: Rudy Giuliani’s hero was once Bobby Kennedy. The…
Long commutes feel like a slog, but there are benefits to sitting on a train and staring out the window everyday. Londoners have some of the longest commutes in Europe…
Looking at the upcoming Toronto municipal election in October, you can end up with more questions than answers. The problem is premier Ford. This guy is not finished with his…
