Trade negotiation rule
If they said that they aren’t close to a deal, it’s because they’re close to a deal. As I told Charles Adler last week: governments lie about trade negotiations. A…
September 2018
thank you, 2018 red sox!
It is the Year of the Mookie. 108 wins. Eight games up. 11 wins to go. That is all.
Leadership that works
…and will keep working, too. The guy never stops. He exhausts me. But he’s good at this.
#BelieveHer
#BelieveHer when a woman dares to show the courage to discuss her past.
The Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing and How a Calgary City Councillor Sank PostMedia’s Credibility
The Kavanaugh confirmation hearing is like a mirror shattering on the floor, shards of glass are flying every where and women are demanding accountability. Everyone knows about the two women…
Alberta Canadian Combat Coalition vs. Ryan Dean: Threats of Gun Violence and Targeted Hits
One of the claims that the far-right groups make to deny their bigotry is the presence of the odd person of color in their ranks. For example in Washington State,…
Austerity, Labor Market Reform and the Growth of Precarious Employment in Greece during the Eurozone Crisis | Global Labour Journal
https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/3274
More Thoughts on Trump and the Inevitability of Climate Change
The revelation last week in The Washington Post was shocking. A lengthy report out of the Trump administration acknowledged what so many feared, we’re on course to 4 degrees Celsius…
New Brunswick and now Quebec elections once again expose major flaws with our voting systems…
CAQ’s François Legault could win majority with only 30% of votes I’ve long advocated for proportional representation voting systems that would produce results that genuinely reflect the choices made by…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lana Payne offers a reminder (with reference to Lars Osberg’s new book) that extreme and growing inequality is a choice rather than…
Robocalls and smear campaigns
Have you received the robocall yet? Many Collingwood residents have, and every one I’ve spoken to thinks they are in appallingly bad taste. And they are right. It starts out…
From Queen’s Park To Jurassic Park
Yesterday, in this space, I wrote about misogyny in the United States. But Ontarians shouldn’t be smug. We suffer from the same disease. Jennifer Howlett was a candidate for office…
Andrew Scheer Is Caught Diddling The Truth. Again
Ever since Andrew Scheer became Con leader, and started attacking Justin Trudeau and his Liberals with the most disgusting attack ads this country has ever seen, I have tried to…
How Brett Kavanaugh Destroyed His Own Nomination
I see that the FBI has started investigating Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The FBI has begun contacting people as part of an additional background investigation of Judge…
What’s in a name
The Starbucks closest to a campaign office always gets pretty busy. Campaign staff go there for meetings, to unwind, or just to get another shot of caffeine. I was at…
“What fools these mortals be…”
Just to show how consistent we humans are, we can use the words of William Shakespeare to describe more recent events. What brings this to mind was a recent Ryerson…
Effect and causes
Here’s the past week, which is mid-to-high: My week on Twitter : 1.61K Mentions, 360K Mention Reach, 3.98K Likes, 739 Retweets, 892 Replies. See yours with https://t.co/TQhKFs0QZY pic.twitter.com/M9yfyYaZ9e — Warren…
Municipal Government Vulnerability
Lost among the back-and-forth political battles between Ford and Toronto city council is that municipalities are not constitutionally protected as sovereign levels of government in Canada. As a federal state,…
‘A disservice to our nation’ – Tzeoporah Berman fires back at Jason Kenney’s ‘crass, simplistic narrative’
In a blistering broadside on social media yesterday, prominent B.C. environmentalist Tzeporah Berman fired back at Opposition Leader Jason Kenney for his continuing effort to reduce her to a figure…