Column: the She-wolf of the Clueless
The first indication that the far Right was back was right there, right in front. Right outside the glass doors of the Corus studios in Toronto. I stepped outside of…
October 2018
Donald Trump’s Win?
We might as well let Donald Trump think he won. You hate to give a bully the victory but he would just go away and pout if we did not.…
Conservatives would have fought harder to protect Canadian dairy farmers? Don’t believe it!
A lot of Canada’s Conservatives were wearing long faces yesterday about the impact of the freshly inked United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on this country’s dairy industry. As political sins go, this…
The Free Trade Victory and the Con Losers
For some reason I remember that cartoon well, even though it was published in January 2017, when Chrystia Freeland had just replaced Stephane Dion as Minister of Foreign Affairs.And Canadians…
The only part of that boring Star story worth reading
Here: I love how Lisa slipped in that shot about separation/secession at the end. Heh. Anyway. If you want the real story, read this. Once again, with feeling: real people…
Participatory Socialist Economics
Photo by Sophie Brown The Vision of British Labour Shadow chancellor John McDonnell can usually barely breathe a word about nationalisation without setting off a media frenzy, so it’s strange…
Climate change and corporate greed combine to destroy forests with fire and felling
Photo by Cameron Strandberg The razing of millions of acres of forests by wildfires has been increasing in scale and intensity for the past few decades. This year has set…
GREEN PARTY RELEASES PARK BOARD PLATFORM
VANCOUVER, B.C. – The Green Party of Vancouver has released their park board platform, ‘A brighter future for our parks’, for the 2018 municipal election. Greens feel it a deep…
Putting Populism In Perspective
Martin Amis offers his acerbic assessment of the current populist mania: Recommend this Post
Canada signs on to new NAFTA.. er… USMCA trade deal
It’s not a perfect deal, and there are some things in it I’m not totally happy about (ie the pharmaceutical companies getting 10 year patent protection on drugs vs the…
Sometimes, in between.
A four panel comic for Sammy. I got a copy of Polarr Deep Crop (iPad) and one of the things it does is this four frame collage with a chosen…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of October 1, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 1, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: Rod Rosenstein may quit or be fired as U.S. deputy attorney general…
Parasites in paradise: behind the capitalist curtain
Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite Jake Dernstein Henry Holt & Co., 2017 Every year, sometimes several times a year, the…
#MeToo: Fighting sexism through labour activism
Photo from Public Domain Since the revelations of rampant sexual abuse and harassment in Hollywood last year, issues of gender, sex, power, and work have been front and centre in…
Whither Work? The Second Industrial Revolution
Photo by Centro Nacional de Educação a Distância The night OF February 16, 2011, millions of North Americans gathered around their television sets to watch the final match of a…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Jim Stanford writes that the D-J Composites lockout should offer Canada a much-needed reminder as to the reality of labour conflict: Through 640…
A Farmer’s Lot
I’ll have something to say about the new trade agreement when more details are available. However, I understand that Canada’s farmers will make concessions under the deal. I’m a city…
Assessing Evidence in CPD: Meeting Standards and Missing Goals
This is a summary of the talk “Assessing Evidence in CPD: Meeting Standards and Missing Goals” (aka Baffled, Befuddled and Bemused) by Michael Allen, at the 10th National CPD Accreditation…
The normalization of Naziism
WTF is City News giving space to a couple neo-Nazis? Here. Unbelievable.