What’s Interesting
We have a new organization and a new manager, and one of the questions we as staff are being asked is “what’s interesting?” with responses to be at least one…
2018
Professional Sport as Sacrifice
Illustration by Adrian Brandon The following is an excerpt from Nathan Kalman-Lamb’s Game Misconduct: Injury, Fandom, and the Business of Sport, set to be released May 1, 2018 by Fernwood…
A Light Dusting of Snow
Grand Canyon South Rim
Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of April 30, 2018
140Law: Here are our Top 10 Legal Headlines for the week of April 30, 2018. For links, visit 140Law at http://wiselaw.blogspot.com A post shared by Wise Law Office (@wiselaw) on…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Kady O’Malley writes that after years of delays on their promise to reassess Bill C-51, civil rights are just one more area where…
Blood On Our Hands
As Canadians, we like to walk around feeling good about ourselves, convinced both of our good intentions and our innate rectitude. Ours is a generally peaceful society, the rule of…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of April 30, 2018
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 30, 2018 from Wise Law on Twitter: Easements: more than meets the eye Former Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown…
Before Its Time? Manifest Destiny, a Short Story
The story below appeared in my short story collection, Finding the Enemy, published in 1999 by Oberon Press. Given the news today of a caravan of refugees at the US/Mexico…
The Wealth Cult
Dan Leger writes that, for quite awhile, we have been worshipping at the Altar of Wealth. That worship has been misplaced: I do admire wealthy people who get there from…
EU Bans Bee Bashing Pesticides
Neonicotinoids kill bees, specifically their hives, and the EU just expanded their ban on neonicotinoids to help protect the world’s dying bee populations. Back in 2013 the EU banned pesticides…
Dark days descending on Ontario.
It is frightening. We have been studying the mood of voters across Ontario and we do not like what we are seeing and hearing. We are not even into the…
Two solitudes – the pdf version #nlpoli
This is an article I wrote a couple of years ago for The Dorchester Review. (Volume 6, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2016. I posted about the piece when it came out…
Canadians spit into the wind
Slowing of growth in carbon emissions falls well short of the sharp drop in carbon emissions thought necessary to achieve Paris climate goals. We need a far more decisive break…
III% Alberta Covered By CBC. Also, Angry III% Alberta Leader Doesn’t Understand Meaning of Words
Full disclosure. I was among those who were contacted by the CBC to provide some of the background for this story as well as sharing some of the screen shots…
Column: men who hate women aren’t men
It is a Monday, April 23, and it is beautiful. Clear, warm. A big blue sky. Exiting a Traveler’s Canada panel on distracted driving at the Economic Club, I stepped…
Was the UCP practicing ‘cultural Marxism’ when it fled the Legislature to avoid the ‘Bubble Zone’ debate?
We’re all “cultural Marxists” now, I guess. Consider Jason Kenney and the Legislative caucus of the ephemerally named political entity known as the United Conservative Party. (By which I mean,…
The Global Perspective: Reflections on Imperialism and Resistance
to order The Global Perspective from leftwingbooks.net click here In the 1970s and 80s, Torkil Lauesen was a member of a clandestine communist cell which carried out a series of…
Welcome Home Herman Bell!
On Friday, April 27, Herman Bell, a 70-year-old respected elder, was released after serving nearly 45 years in prison. Herman was one of thousands of incarcerated older people who was…
Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire
click here to order from leftwingbooks.net In this book, Matthew N. Lyons takes readers on a tour of neonazis and Christian theocrats, by way of the patriot movement, the LaRouchites,…
Montreal Anarchist Bookfair: May 26 & 27, 2018
Mark your calendars … MONTREAL ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR 2018 Two days: Saturday, May 26 & Sunday, May 27 From 10am to 5pm on both days The Anarchist Bookfair will take place…