Best of Alberta Politics 2017: David Eggen, Minister of Education
With more than 1,200 votes cast in the Best of Alberta Politics survey, Minister of Education David Eggen came up on top in the Best Cabinet Minister of 2017 category.…
2018
Jason Kenney’s Non-Partisan Request
This just in from “the train-has-left-the-station” department. Let’s see, how should Alberta respond to BC’s announcement that it will limit bitumen shipments from Alberta until it completes consultation on more…
Brain Candy – Can We Break Our Smartphone Addiction?
Definitely worth a read. Psychiatrist Norman Doidge and former Blackberry CEO Jim Balsillie kick around the growing problem of smartphone addiction. It may be a far worse problem than you…
Well, They All Got a Shoo-In from Ottawa. Thanks, Ottawa. Thanks.
The Globe and Mail has a feature story on how well Vancouver’s fentanyl bosses are making out and where they’re laundering their money – in high priced Vancouver real estate.…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Zoe Williams highlights how misleading framing has caused far too many people to accept destructive austerity and inequality: Not unreasonably, given the…
On Media Piracy and "FairPlay Canada"
This is a new development to me, but then I haven’t been following the issue of piracy all that closely for some time. The upshot is that a group of…
Anti-Muslim Hate Rally on Parliament Hill: Updates
ARC will update this page as information is both gathered and received. Prior to the protest on February 17, one of the CDN Wolfpack moderators posted the following: A sponsor,…
Stuff I Learned This Week, no.2: Winter Olympics edition
Enjoying the Winter Olympics, or, to give it its due, the Games of the XXIII Winter Olympics? I’m not. Well, not much. Always happy when a Canadian snags a medal,…
On Political Prostitution
As the spectacle of political prostitution plays out in the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership race (Carbon tax? Absolutely not!) (New efficiencies – not new taxes!) Star letter writer Norah Downey…
It was my party, and I’ll destroy it if I want to
I fixed today’s Toronto Sun cover. #onpoli pic.twitter.com/UEEPhbGhCh — Lisa Kinsella (@lisakinsella) February 18, 2018
Panel discussion at federal NDP policy convention
Yesterday I spoke on a panel discussion on economic inequality, along with Andrew Jackson and Armine Yalnizyan. We were guests at the federal NDP’s policy convention in Ottawa. The panel…
Pipeline Politcs
Pipeline Politics have haunted this country since the end of the Second World War. Robin Sears reviews the history: Every major pipeline we have built in Canada since the Second…
Is This New Tar Sands Technology a Game Changer for Exporting Canada’s Bitumen?
A new technology has the potential to transform the transportation of tars sands oil. Right now, the already thick and slow-flowing oil, known as bitumen, has to be diluted with…
Why Donald Trump Can No Longer Fire Robert Mueller
Donald Trump can rant and rave about Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russian trollsHe can claim the indictments shows there was no collusion.He can try to discredit the FBI. As…
The Parkland Massacre and the Revolt of the Young
Most school massacres in the United States follow a depressing and predictable pattern.First there is the horror and the shock. Then there are tears and teddy bears, and candles, and…
A tag day for journalism.
It should be admitted up front that this writer is a news junky. With a career in public relations and politics, I believe in the independence of CBC/Radio Canada and…
The Tyranny of the Click
A new study has found that overwhelming majority of Canadians believe in the critical role of journalism to democracy, and support more policies to defend the industry. “Financial pressures have…
Organizing the lumpenproletariat: Cliques and communists in Berlin during the Weimar Republic – Eve Rosenhaft (repost)
During the Weimar Republic, popular anxieties about the state of society became focused on a field of problems in which youth, political radicalism and a general brutalisation of social and…
Meanwhile, Less Than an Hour Drive from the Bloodstained Halls of a Parkland High School..
What would Presidents’ Day Weekend be without a three-day gunshow? Wall to wall “black guns,” assault rifles, AR-15s the weapon of choice for every school massacre. Instruments of mass carnage…
Yet MORE Far-Right "Patriot" Infighting: Sandra Solomon, Ryan Dean, and Sons of Odin
It has been a while since ARC has spoken about Sandra Solomon, or whatever name she's going with now on her multiple Facebook profiles. She was at an event in…