Bus to the Future
Every couple of years some new-fangled technological solution pops up claiming to fix all of our transit woes. We’ve long been promised flying cars and still we need to people…
2018
Nobels Are For Noble People
Residents of the Right Wing Looney Bin — like Nigel Farage — are trumpeting the suggestion that Donald Trump should receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Michael Harris writes: You know…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – The Equality Trust highlights the perpetual concentration of wealth among an extremely privileged few in the UK. LOLGOP points out how U.S. Republicans…
Andrew Scheer and the Abortion Question
Last Wednesday Justin Trudeau was answering a question about abortion, which ended with him declaring that his government would always defend a woman's right to choose.When the Con MP Ted…
TV ads do not get the vote out.
There is a fascination with political advertising. It seems to be more for their entertainment value than their efficacy. I just have yet to see an ad that would get…
My Trump prediction in 2012
All the way back in 2012, @kinsellawarren had an inkling about Trump. Wrote a cool song about it too. #FightTheRight pic.twitter.com/WgL35cga5c — Richard McAdam (@RealRGM81) May 13, 2018
Mr Kenney Runs Away
The last two weeks have been particularly tiring for Mr Kenney, the leader of the UCP, he spent most of it running away. Mr Kenney hightailed it out of the…
May 17-20 in Montreal: The Great Transition, Preparing a World Beyond Capitalism
The Great Transition is an international conference that will take place in Montreal from May 17 to 20, 2018. This 4-day event aims to bring together a thousand participants to…
How to Bring Gun Control to America – the Easy and Quick Way
Her name is D. Danyelle Thomas and she goes by the web name, the Unfit Christian. Now Danyelle is very much pro-gun control and she thinks it’s a simple matter…
How Moscow Played the Race Card
They’re not stupid. Just like a swarm of Blow flies they went straight for America’s open sore – racism. From New York magazine. More than half of the Facebook ads…
The Many Similarities Between Doug Ford and Donald Trump
As I predicted before the campaign began, Doug Ford's Team Harper handlers are trying to muzzle him.Or at least restrict media access to him, just like they did with their…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Dana Brown and Thomas Hanna discuss the possibility of a public option for access to medication in the U.S. And while the…
In yesterday walks tomorrow, etc.
@fordnation isn’t @realDonaldTrump, but it simply amazes me that Ford’s critics are reprising in 2018 the tactics that didn’t work against Trump in 2016: mocking his supporters, calling them racists…
Despair Won’t Get Us To Where We Want To Be
For some people, politics is all about finding a Messiah. Chris Hedges believes that approach leads to a dead end. Real political change begins with community: No leader, no matter…
The Opera ain’t over.
First off today, we want to apologize. We have been thoroughly castigated by family and readers for being rude to Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath the other day. I sincerely…
Hate Has Consequences: More Fallout From Gabriel Sohier Chaput and Discord "Montreal Storm" Leaks
The news that “Zieger”, a prominent neo-Nazi active on the “Daily Stormer” and second to hate site founder Andrew Anglin, was a Montreal IT consultant named Gabriel Sohier Chaput has…
Go Jets go! Right?
The other day I turned on the television to find an NHL game in progress. I was shocked. I thought the hockey season ended months ago. It had for me,…
Truth In Advertising
I don’t know why, but I find something extraordinarily appealing about this campaign. The cynicism it has engendered, however, is sad. Recommend this Post
Is Trudeau Double-Dealing British Columbia Again?
For some reason – well, for lots of reasons – it’s hard to trust that boy, Justin. He’s broken promises so freely and told so many tall tales that he’s…