happy canada day: a wish for a pledge
One unfortunate result of the current ascendancy of white supremacy in the US is the increase in Canadians’ nationalism and self-love — the strengthening of Canadians’ conviction that our society…
2018
How We Give the Third World the Double-Whammy
Here’s something for Justin, the Bitumen King, to mull over this Canada Day. It’s about how we petro-states are screwing over the Third World. It’s not just that we’re killing…
Even Americans Figure It Out – Eventually – When It Starts to Hurt
An increasing number of Floridians are coming to realize their state is facing a severe problem from sea level rise. Held back by incompetent, ideologically-hidebound state governments, the people of…
La Meute Protest in Montreal
I’ll update as information becomes available. So today’s the big day: far right, anti-immigrant, Islamophobic group La Meute will attempt to demonstrate in Montreal. They waited until just now to…
Happy day, eh?
Happy Canada Day, eh. That’s my flag up at the lake, ya hoser.
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Sam Pizzigati makes the case for an effective maximum wage – and notes that the U.S.’ historical top tax brackets were based…
July3: It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry…
A story that won’t make the irving press. //www.haaretz.com/us-news/85-year-old-rabbi-arrested-during-trump-immigration-policy-protest-1.6222744________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/03/mediterranean-migrants-drown-three-days-libya-italy Maybe if our capitalists stopped killing these people in their countries, they’d stop fleeing and drowning.______________________________________________________________ It’s too early yet…
Happy Canada Day
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One Canada: Two men named Trudeau.
Is Justin Trudeau building on or confusing the legacy of Pierre Trudeau? Thinking back to that Canada Day 50 years ago when Pierre Trudeau was our new prime minister, I…
LA REVUE GAUCHE – Left Comment 2018-07-01 05:43:00
Chinese experts have not recordered any increase in background radiation level following North Korea’s alleged nuclear weapon test, Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection said in a statement Wednesday. BEIJING (Sputnik)…
No need to make this stuff up: Celebrate Canada Day 2018 by driving the secret highways of Alberta!
Happy Canada Day! Why not celebrate by driving on Alberta’s secret highways? Frankly, I don’t know how the Beaverton stays in business with the brutal competition they’re facing nowadays from…
Of Course You’re a Big Deal.
Having trouble getting over yourself? Think you’re the center of the universe, that everything revolves around you? Perhaps we all do, a little bit, in a way. The problem is…
June 30: Evil Us?
The story that you will never see in the irving press. http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cra-tax-gap-foreign-holdings-1.4726983 240 billion dollars. Now do you understand why governments have to go over budget? Now do you understand…
The Best Analysis yet of Trump’s America
The article by Frank Buckley, Brian Lee Crowley (Read more…) Sean Speer in today’s Globe & Mail is by far the best analysis of the driving forces behind the new…
from the archives: for millions of american women, roe is already history
With the resignation of US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, it is very likely that Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, will be overturned. I’m getting frustrated…
Saturday Photo: Morning Contemplation
Hot weather. Time to get out in the morning and then cool it inside… We were in the parks at 8:30 a.m. Often go walking at that hour, but the…
Stephen Harper, Traitor
I am really angry with Stephen Harper’s treason against Canada. How do you stop someone who’s hell-bent on ruining the fortunes of Canada?
what i’m reading: running the books: the adventures of an accidental prison librarian
I read this book many months ago. I’m still catching up from my involuntary blogging hiatus. Last year I read and wrote about The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature…