New Ontario Liberal ad?
An effective attack ad shouldn’t merely repeat things voters already knew, and have already dismissed and discounted. This is phoning it in. It isn’t going to change minds.
2018
The Contemporary Relevance of Karl Polanyi
The political economist Karl Polanyi, author of the 1944 volume The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, is arguably better known today than during his lifetime.…
A New Problem – Oceanic Heat Waves
It’s only logical that global warming would not spare our oceans. Not only do they absorb most, about 70%, of our atmospheric carbon dioxide, resulting in worsening acidification, but the…
A Yelp on steroids
A smart CBC Winnipeg reporter contacted me this week about a fascinating story. It’s here: Snippet below: Kinsella, who is a Toronto-based lawyer and author, said businesses have the right…
Insurgent Supremacists Book Launch: A discussion with author Matthew Lyons (Philly, May 16)
available for pre-order from leftwingbooks.net WHEN: Wednesday, May 16 at 7 PM – 9 PM WHERE: Wooden Shoe Books and Records, 704 South St, Philadelphia, facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2053452598230072/ Philly Antifa presents…
Globe and Mail oped: The era of Big Tech self-governance has come to an end
A piece in the Globe and Mail on the Zuckerberg hearings: The era of Big Tech self-governance has come to an end Twenty years ago, another young Silicon Valley tycoon…
How Democracy Dies. The Orban Template.
Hungary is now, essentially, a totalitarian state – within the European Union, within NATO. In Andrew Sullivan’s column in New York magazine, Yascha Mounk explains how democracy died this week…
A Terrible Foreboding. Trump in Meltdown.
There’s never a calm moment when America is ruled by someone as mentally unstable and unfit for office as the current White House occupant, the Mango Mussolini, Donald J. Trump.…
A World in Peril, the Great Atlantic Conveyor
One thing all petro-pols learn quickly is how to turn their backs on calamities closing in on us. And, yes, that includes Justin Trudeau. He’s in the club. So, when…
The EDF Fights Back
I’ve never heard of an environmental group with its own satellite but it’s sure to fire a rocket up the arse of the fossil fuelers and every petro-pol on the…
Defining The National Interest
As the video included in yesterday’s post shows, Justin Trudeau likes to defend the twinning of the Trans Mountain pipeline as in ‘the national interest.” The term itself is a…
What Mark Zuckerberg Didn’t Tell You
FaceBook tracks you across the internet on any website that has a FB button, whether or not you are signed into FaceBook and even if you don’t have an account.…
Mafioso In The White House
Excerpts from James Comey’s book, A Higher Loyalty, have hit the papers. The Guardian obtained an advance copy from a New York bookseller and has published excerpts from the book.…
‘They’re Not Getting How the Constitution Works’: Why Trudeau, Notley Can’t Steamroll B.C. on Kinder Morgan Pipeline
In the fall of 1981, Jack Woodward was a young lawyer in Ottawa when NDP leader Ed Broadbent and prime minister Pierre Trudeau struck a deal to include aboriginal rights…
Waiting for Mr. Trump.
Is this the day Mr. Trump sends the world to war? We wait. We wonder. It might not be a good day to plan next year’s vacation. The man has…
Canada On Pipelines
” B.C. does not have the power to veto a pipeline, but the poll suggests a majority of Canadians feel the provinces should have the ability to stop a pipeline…
Despite NDP stamp of approval, pipeline rally on Legislature’s steps looked and sounded like a UCP event
PHOTOS: Part of the pro-pipeline crowd in front of the Alberta Legislature Thursday afternoon, with a couple of brave Indigenous counter-protesters visible in the foreground. Below: Federal Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet…
Through the Looking Glass – NDP cabinet ministers awkwardly join pro-pipeline, pro-UCP rally
Today’s rally at the Alberta Legislature in support of the expansion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline was one of the strangest rallies in recent memory. Maybe it was because…
Hypocrisy of politicians exposed
Politicians demand ordinary citizens pay increasing amounts of carbon tax — supposedly to reduce fossil fuel consumption — while at the same time they dish out billions of dollars in…