New books
I’ve set up a Square store for online book sales. All books are a limited edition run of 20. $25.00 covers all shipping, handling and other annoying stuff. Check out…
2018
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Alex Himelfarb warns about the dangers of participating in Donald Trump’s race to the bottom for public revenues – and the importance of…
May 5:A bit of good news. A lot of bad.
Let’s start with some good news. The Moncton Times Transcript, normally the worst and most dishonest newspaper I have ever seen, has a magnificent Commentary page for May 4. There’s…
Even the National Review Is Throwing In the Towel On This One.
There aren’t many more reliable rightwing publications than The National Review. Which is why it’s worth noting when the Review throws in the towel on Donald Trump and his sidekick,…
Canadian Anti-Hate Network Is Now Active
For a long time Anti-Racist Canada has been, for all intents and purposes, the only real show in town when it came to tracking, monitoring, and reporting on racist groups…
Fun Facts about Tax
Working class Americans pay higher income taxes than do Canadians? Really? According to the Rich Countries Club, the OECD, the tax squeeze on American workers is a good bit worse…
Childhood pictures and early memories
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Saturday Photo: Years of Contestation…
There’s been a lot in the press here about the fiftieth anniversary of the uprising in Paris. Certainly 1968 was a year of unrest, particularly among the young there and…
Breaking: Wizard turns red into blue and orange
What a magician! He and his apprentice, BeerAndPopcorn, are amazing! PS – Thanks to Jimmy Warren for the link!
Will We Ignore The Evidence Until The End?
Yesterday, Southern Ontario saw some pretty wild weather, with winds reaching 110 km per hour. Power outages were widespread, trees were felled at an alarming rate, Pearson Airport had to…
It’s About Corruption, Baby
The Socialist Worker editorializes that, when you boil it all down, the Trump Administration isn’t about drama. It’s about corruption: Trump is obviously not the first or only corrupt American…
Andrew Scheer and the Day the India Story Died
For months Andrew Scheer tried to keep his hyper inflated India story going, in the hope that it would make him more popular than Justin Trudeau.And for a while it…
A legislature of eunuchs.
Listening to voters and to people at Queen’s Park, there seems to be a general opinion that there should be a sign from Dante’s Inferno over the legislature entrance “Abandon…
Coming Soon to Your Little Part of The Coast
This will be showing at the local community centre next week. It’s kinda making the rounds. Sort of thing that can bring people together. I heard some talking head today,…
For a Winnipeg Without Poverty
Last week, anti-poverty activists in Winnipeg released a report aimed at encouraging the City of Winnipeg to develop a strategy for reducing poverty in the city. They called on the…
Alberta then and now: Marking the third anniversary of the unexpected victory of Rachel Notley and the NDP
CALGARY Three years ago today, Albertans did the unexpected in the province’s 29th general election and elected a majority New Democratic Party government. In truth, despite Albertans having been instructed…
‘It’s Very Misleading’: Energy Experts Critique Canada’s Rosy Carbon Pricing Report
Earlier this week, the federal government published a bombshell report on carbon pricing, predicting that a nationwide price of $50 per tonne by 2022 will cut emissions by 80 to…
Musical interlude
Kikagaku Moyo – Kodama
Another Waypoint Passed
While we’re on the subject of pimping bitumen, pipelines and supertankers, let’s pause to observe another waypoint passed in our race to increase our atmospheric loading of greenhouse gases. 410.…
Doherty’s Magic Money Fairy
At 3:55:20 in the video of Monday’s Collingwood Council meeting, Councillor Deb Doherty utters the self-congratulatory claim that she is “glad” the costs of the upcoming judicial inquiry to pursue…