Musical interlude
Sloan – 500 Up
2018
When You’re Trying to Get Out Of a Hole…
It’s that old adage – when you’re trying to get out of a hole the first thing is to stop digging. You don’t make the hole even deeper. You don’t…
So, You’ve Got Your Enquiry. Now What Are You Going to Do, Prime Minister?
It’s not that hard to figure out. You’ve got somewhere between 1,400 and 2,400 dead and wounded on one side and, on the other, zero – no dead, no wounded.…
Operation Save the Furniture
My old friend David Akin got in touch with me about study that Global News has put together. Akin and a team of researchers looked at where the three provincial…
Thinking about listening and seeing
For more than five years, now, my central project has been a radio show and podcast. And my main book project recently morphed into something that aims to talk about…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – George Monbiot discusses the dangers of treating our natural environment solely as something to be priced and commodified. – The Mound of Sound…
Justin Trudeau and the Humiliation of Jason Kenney
Well it's the night of the Royal Wedding, and maybe a little dress up, and a little Vaseline on the lens, will make Jason Kenney feel better after his bruising…
From the Top On Down
Donald Trump’s decision to move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was utterly cynical. Michael Harris writes: When Trump departed from longstanding American policy by moving the American…
Work hard, play hard, at Daisy Group
We had a surprise visitor today! We've had Prime Ministers and Premiers at Daisy – but this was our first President. Thank you President @BarackObama for a productive meeting –…
‘NRA Strategy’ to block connection of climate change dots won’t work when the climate disaster’s in B.C.
As fear rises in British Columbia this week along with the province’s record floodwaters, the likelihood B.C. voters will connect the dots between man-made climate change and “natural” catastrophes is…
Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Alex Boutilier discusses the glaring gap between hype and reality when it comes to tech sector jobs. And Virgina Eubanks writes about…
New column day
Here, on how Canada continues to tear Indigenous children away from their families due to the lingering effects of discriminatory policies. For further reading…– Katie Hyslop has been reporting on…
Vice Runs the Trans-Mountain Numbers. The Results are Shocking.
Vice.com has analyzed the unmentioned but very real costs associated with the Trans-Mountain pipeline and the numbers are, dare I say it, “appalling.” What’s interesting is that the Vice numbers…
Have we finally learned how to stop worrying and love The Bomb?
Slim Pickens on the set of Dr. Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. Last year, the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to abolish nuclear weapons.…
The race to the bottom is over
In the fiscal years 2016 and 2017, natural gas royalty payments totalled $291 million. However, credits owed producers increased $748 million so, if the province bothered to record these obligations…
I Agree. There’s No Place Any Longer for Identity Politics.
When Justin Trudeau spoke to graduating students of New York University yesterday he criticized the growth in identity politics. I commend him for that. It’s a phenomenon that fosters clannish…
Show me the documents!
The trolls and troglodytes on social media are whinging again about allegedly missing documents that relate to the 2012 sale of 50% of Collus. They want you to think there…
The most accurate poll was….
Mainstreet Research (a firm not around for the 2014 Ontario election) is beginning a daily tracking poll today, so with three weeks to go in the campaign we should expect…