Citizen Trump
Watching the Trump years at the White House is like watching Citizen Kane without knowing how it ends, without even knowing what “rosebud” will mean. We are, however, picking up…
November 2018
McGill students defeat intolerance
Congratulations to Tomas Jirousek, Ben Kinsella and other students for this important victory. More here. McGill University students have voted in favour of changing the name shared by the school’s…
Nov. 13: The Canadian Empire
Oh yes, there is a Canadian empire. Us Canadian just don’t like to brag. (I guess that’s why the Moncton Times and Transcript never mentions it.) Like all empires, it…
One More Reason The Cons Will Lose The Next Election
If you remember, when we last left Andrew Scheer he was riding with the notorious Ford Gang, the ugliest group of Con climate change deniers this country has ever known.And…
A Government Stymied by Cognitive Dissonance
Peter Lowry (Babel-on-the-Bay) posts that some sort of donnybrook that pits Liberal caucus petro-pols against their fellow environnmental backers is underway. To me it seems like they’re debating whether to…
"What Do I Have To Do To Earn A Decent Life?"
As my disenchantment with humanity and myself grows, I look for things to counteract the deep cynicism that has gripped me, things that demonstrate the resilience, strength and compassion that…
Why I am going to vote Yes in the referendum
Anyone who knows me will be shocked by the brevity of this piece. However, for me, it is pretty easy to see why the city of Calgary should move forward…
LawFact of the Day: Employment Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday November 13, 2018. Today we are talking about Employment Law. Did you know that a probationary period may go longer…
Cat videos – NaBloPoMo Day 13
Let’s take a moment to remember the origins of something that’s changed the way we do business, the way we consume arts and culture, and ultimately, the way we communicate.…
None Dare Call It Victory: U.S. 2018 Elections
Photo by U.S. Embassy Canada For months, the leadership of the Democratic Party hyped the message that a ‘blue wave’ was on its way that would politically engulf Trump and…
A Marxist History of Capitalism
A Marxist History of Capitalism Henry Heller Routledge, 2018 Since the 1970s, Marxist discussion of how and when capitalism was born has been dominated by two competing academic currents. World-System…
Quebec Goes Its Own Way
If Andrew Scheer was planning on making inroads in Quebec, Chantal Hebert writes, his opposition to a carbon tax has doomed his efforts: In Quebec, the anti-carbon pricing platform Scheer…
Donald Trump, the Enemy Rain, and the Scary Trumpy Bear
As I'm sure you know, Donald Trump's trip to France, to mark the 100th anniversary of World War I, was a diplomatic catastrophe.And a PR disaster similar to the time…
Economists vs Environmentalists.
Welcome to ringside folks. Tonight’s card is a new version of Albert Einstein’s E=MC². Tonight’s main bout is between Canada’s federal liberal economists and its liberal environmentalists. The prize is…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tom Kibasi writes that the UK’s best option in light of its impending Brexit is to develop a more active and entrepreneurial…
How One Billionaire Plans to Help Save the Planet
The Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss has decided to not be idly rich and watch the environment fall apart around him. He’s decided that over the next decade he will personally…
Too many senior managers are leaving the City of St. Albert: It’s time for City Council to explain what’s going on
ST. ALBERT, Alberta What the heck is going on at the City of St. Albert? According to the headline on a small news story inside Saturday’s edition of the St.…
Lake of Fire Update: Stuff is still hitting the fan, and it may not be lava!
Well a certain kind of stuff has certainly hit the fan since it was reported here and elsewhere that John Carpay, the well-known social conservative warrior, had dipped his toe…
So that was a thing – NaBloPoMo Day 12
*warning: you may wish to pre-clutch your pearls because this is a seriously hardcore post* we went to the new Costco today. I was supposed to get a hot dog…
University of Calgary Conservative Club Members Linked To FireForce Ventures
UPDATE 2: Just learned that there is currently a warrant for the arrest of Gabriel Sohier Chaput (aka "Zeiger": BREAKING: Arrest warrant issued for alt-right neo-Nazi propagandist Zeiger, aka Gabriel…