Boneheads
Yesterday, on his way to what comedian Bill Mahar calls one of his “Nuremberg Hillbillies Rallies,” Donald Trump threatened the “ruination” of Canada. Daniel Dale writes in The Toronto Star:…
September 2018
Left is the lonely lane.
I have never felt so alone in politics. The left, the progressive, the social democrat is a dying breed. Even the federal New Democratic Party is struggling with fund raising…
Economic illiteracy in Canadian media
The Fraser Institute declares Tax Freedom Day each year. It is an inaccurate trick to further interests of the millionaires and billionaires for whom the “charity” works. Many of those…
How far is the United Conservative Party prepared to go to be tolerant of intolerance? Quite far, apparently
MLA Richard Gotfried defeated candidate Cindy Ross last night for the United Conservative Party nomination in the Calgary-Fish Creek Riding. Mr. Gotfried, narrowly elected as a Progressive Conservative candidate in…
Musical interlude
Alpha 9 – The Night Is Ours
Vox populi, Scarborough-style
The people have spoken. Jen should listen. (The first lady is my favourite.)
Alleged Fredericton Killer Fan of Rebel Media and Faith Goldy
This past Wednesday while perusing my usual online haunts, I noticed a post in which Kevin "Poodle" Johnston (currently awaiting trial on hate crime charges) was promoting an interview of…
The BBC Comes Clean on Climate Change
It has been a long time coming. For years the British Broadcasting Corporation has mishandled reporting on climate change. Climate stories routinely included interviews with climate change deniers such as…
Pro tip: when you call your opponent too negative, don’t promote the stuff you’ve called negative
So, the John Tory folks put together a fun little video about the expressed desire of Tory’s main opponent, Jen Keesmaat, to secede from the province and country. Here it…
Justin, You Could Try Putting the Pin Back in that Grenade.
You know you’re dealing with grifters when a logical, perfectly sound idea won’t even be acknowledged much less discussed. Unfortunately that makes Justin Trudeau, Rachel Notley, Andrew Scheer, Jason Kenney…
David Shepherd secures NDP candidacy in Edmonton-City Centre, Laurie Mozeson beats Steve Thompson in Edmonton-McClung UCP contest
Edmonton-Centre MLA David Shepherd secured the New Democratic Party nomination in the newly redrawn and slightly renamed Edmonton-City Centre district at a packed nomination meeting last night in downtown Edmonton.…
Keesmaatistan traffic plan
On the right.
When tenants ‘graduate’ from Housing First programs
Over at the Research Blog of the Calgary Homeless Foundation, I’ve written a ‘top 10’ overview of a study on which I’m co-author. It essentially asks the question: “When homeless…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Paul Krugman writes that progressive voices need to reclaim the theme of freedom as it becomes increasingly obvious how deprivation and precarity deprive…
NDP Survey Asks Supporters To Rate Jagmeet Singh In His First Year As Party Leader
I joined the federal New Democrats in November, 1981 and after 37 years of continuous membership, I had my membership in the Federal NDP cancelled in the spring of 2018…
NDP Survey Asks Supporters To Rate Jagmeet Singh In His First Year As Party Leader
I joined the federal New Democrats in November, 1981 and after 37 years of continuous membership, I had my membership in the Federal NDP cancelled in the spring of 2018…
NDP Survey Asks Supporters To Rate Jagmeet Singh In His First Year As Party Leader
I joined the federal New Democrats in November, 1981 and after 37 years of continuous membership, I had my membership in the Federal NDP cancelled in the spring of 2018…
It’s In the Voters’ Hands
Eugene Robinson writes this morning that Americans have known all along who Donald Trump is: We’ve all known about Trump from the beginning. We’ve known that he was entirely unfit…
Halifax Anarchist Bookfair Workshop Schedule
10:15-11:45am Room 1 The Rojava Revolution – presented by Rojava Montreal Feminism, equality, ecology and direct democracy: a discussion of the Rojava revolution from an anarchist perspective. In 2016 a…