Political and Rhetorical Privilege
“It’s perfectly possible for a man to lead a comfortable, indeed enviable life by any objective standard, yet be consumed with bitterness driven by status anxiety.” Dr. Paul Krugman in…
October 2018
Rachel Notley and Tzeporah Berman present starkly different views of Alberta’s energy future
Thanks to invitations from the province’s teachers’ union, the two most influential people in Alberta presented their starkly different visions of the energy future in the same room yesterday. I…
Will British Police Charge The Ghastly Ezra Levant?
If you've read the hate mongering Rebel recently, you might have noticed that it spends most of its time writing about Britain rather than Canada.With its lizard leader Ezra Levant…
Doug Ford, Jason Kenney, and the Carbon Tax Deniers
When I first saw this picture of Doug Ford and Jason Kenney staring into each other's eyes I thought they wanted everyone to know how much they love each other.…
The Racist Cons And The Consequences of Hate
When I first saw this Con attack ad, I remember recoiling with horror.No just because it says so much about who the Cons are, the dirtiest party or cult this…
Paul Fromm, James Sears, and Faith Goldy
A play in three acts: pic.twitter.com/BA9h79Vl12 — (((ARC COLLECTIVE))) (@ARCCollective) October 14, 2018 Just say’n….
It’s Time – Time for Bavaria, Time for Canada
In Germany, the Green Party is on a roll. In the upcoming Bavarian elections the Greens hold a solid second place and they’re rising in other parts of Deutschland. From…
THE FIFTH COLUMN 2018-10-13 19:17:00
On Democracy What a better way to restart The Fifth Column than by a treatise on how to make our democracy actually democratic. Hopefully this will be the first posting…
My grandson is so awesome
Canadian punk rock @SocialD1 toddler complete with cabin socks. @kinsellawarren pic.twitter.com/3IafJUStis — Lisa Kinsella (@lisakinsella) October 13, 2018
Ghosts and Buzzards
Has the ghost of unified Republican governments returned to haunt America – and the world? Hardly a day goes by without another business op-ed predicting a financial collapse either next…
Oct. 13: The world downhill.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/usmca-canada-china-coalition-1.4855868 Get used to it. We are now America’s bumboy just as over a hundred years ago, we were Britain’s bumboy in fighting a British war that had nothing to…
Saturday Photo: Fall and Cataract Surgery
Fall is always a beautiful season here, with so many deciduous trees turning colour. I’d always known that, but four years ago I learned just how gorgeous the trees are.…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Tiffany Crawford interviews Kirsten Zickfeld about the contradiction between new fossil fuel infrastructure and any serious attempt to reverse our climate breakdown. Murray…
Trump And State Sanctioned Ignorance
Under Donald Trump, Henry Giroux writes, the United States is becoming a full blown fascist state: The threads of a general political and ideological crisis run deep in American history,…
Holding Honderich’s Hypocrisy.
It is this writer’s observation that John Honderich of the Toronto Star can be among the most puffed up of self-important Canadians. In an opinion piece on page two of…
Let’s Stop Conflating Transgender and Toxic Masculinity
I ran across an essay that was trying to argue that somehow transgender activism was “peak male entitlement”. “The Wolf of Masculinity is Dressed Up in the Sheep’s Clothing of…
Musical interlude
Ladytron – Runaway
in which we take a big gamble and are rewarded, or, we are moving to port hardy
I got a job! We are moving to Port Hardy, BC! Port what now? Yes, we are moving to a tiny, remote town in the “north island” — the northern…
What We’re Fighting For Now is Each Other.
Climate change activists once imagined that they were fighting for future generations, babies that will be born decades from now. Then it became a fight for our grandchildren’s future. Today…