Sometimes, you don’t get what you pay for
$70,000 a month, for example. "I think people think Doug Ford is a bit of a dick," said Liberal campaign co-chair David Herle on CP24. (Corrected from earlier tweet after…
2018
The Mirage of Pension-Fund Activism
The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon David Webber Harvard University Press, 2018 In her 2016 book No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age,…
Council kills Collingwood construction
Collingwood council – dominated by The Block – has voted to cripple the booming construction industry in town. A bylaw passed this week prohibits, “…operation of construction equipment to Monday…
Ten things to know about the 2018 Saskatchewan budget
I’ve written a ‘top 10’ blog post about the recently-tabled Saskatchewan budget. Points raised in the blog post include the following: -This year’s budget was quite status quo. -Last year’s…
Words Versus Deeds
Our Prime Minister, always keen to appear as a progressive on the international stage, is decidedly less so at home, as recent events are demonstrating. Another reminder of the gross…
Zakaria – America’s "Deep State" Exists and Americans Should Be Grateful
America’s “deep state” exists and Fareed Zakaria says Americans need look no further than people like Robert Mueller and James Comey to find it. One of the oft-repeated criticisms of…
Kinder Morgan’s Canadian Executives Earn Millions As Governments Discuss Bailout
Ian Anderson, president of Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd., must be laughing all the way to check on his stock options since the Trudeau government offered to use public funds to…
Missing Monbiot
George Monbiot rose to fame and acclaim as The Guardian’s fearless enviro-scribe, eventually expanding into a broader societal punditry. This scribe would eagerly await Monbiot’s next offering to see what…
The Day the Con Media Exposed Its Shameful Bias
When Doug Ford announced that his campaign bus would not be followed by another one carrying the media, there was a chorus of complaints.But as I wrote the other day,…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – PressProgress crunches the numbers on tax loopholes and finds that more and more revenue is being lost to the most glaring loopholes every…
Ontario Liberals in third place, would get seven seats: poll
Boy, I sure am glad the Wizard is in charge, and getting all the big bucks! What a great job he and his boss have done! Snippet: The Ontario Liberals…
Snake Oil Isn’t Selling These Days
Paul Krugman writes that, in the United States, snake oil isn’t selling like it used to. Exhibit A is Donald Trump’s tax cuts. George Bush touted the same snake oil…
Adler-Kinsella on Liberals and drugs! Drugs and Liberals! Drugged-up Liberals!
Did my usual Thursday thing with Charles, and it was illuminating, as usual. We discussed drugs and sexual harassment and even found room to squeeze in a few laughs. Check…
A Commonwealth at bargain price.
Our prime minister Justin Trudeau has been in London this past week, pressing the flesh with the long-running Commonwealth of Nations. The Commonwealth, as we usually call it is the…
Green Party of Alberta chooses Coral Bliss Taylor, former Calgary council candidate, as interim leader
The Green Party of Alberta has chosen Coral Bliss Taylor, not so long ago a candidate for city council in Calgary civic election, to serve as its interim leader while…
Yes, Justin, But What’s in the "National Interest" of Our Children and Grandchildren?
Justin Trudeau’s highly selective, incredibly narrow, utterly myopic and grossly self-serving definition of Canada’s “national interest” is disturbing. Canada didn’t begin with us and it won’t end with us either…
Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out
Yanis Varoufakis: Marx predicted our present crisis – and points the way out https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/20/yanis-varoufakis-marx-crisis-communist-manifesto?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WordPress
Refusal To Regulate Regional Autism Centres Has Opened The Door To Lawsuits
The Minister of Children and Youth Services Michael Coteau has actively refused to bring in regulation of the provinces regional autism centers despite major issues being reported to the government…
An Angry Planet
The future is rapidly arriving, and it isn’t pretty, thanks to climate change that is causing rising seas and more volatile storms, of particular threat to low-lying nations of the…
Stunning, Absolutely Stunning.
Play this magnificent video full screen, volume up. Then with climate change this rampant ask yourself why we’re so bent on pimping bitumen. GLACIER EXIT from Raphael Rogers on Vimeo.