Jan. 27: The one I don’t want to write.
I have misplaced the article, and I forget who was quoted in it – except that he was a senior member of the White House circle. In short, this politician…
2018
Patrick Brown and the politics of sexual harassment and backlash
Ex-PC Leader Patrick Brown (CP/Aaron Vincent Elkaim) This week saw the dramatic destruction of Patrick Brown’s leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario after allegations of past sexual misconduct…
Perceiving the world as an embodied capacity…and movement-building
Being able to perceive complex elements of the world immediately around us isn’t something we’re just automatically able to do – it’s a capacity, or really many different capacities, that…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David McGrane writes about Jack Layton’s five great fights – and how they continue to provide an essential framework for social democrats. –…
Horseshoe Bend
It might be a cliché, but this is MY cliché
A Circular Firing Squad
Perhaps Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives have been in the wilderness for so long because they have a talent for screwing things up. Martin Regg Cohn thinks so. They elected a leader…
ASKING FOR OR OFFERING HELP – WHY IS IT SO SO HARD?!
Recently, a friend and I railed at how homeless people on the street are ignored. “What kind of a society do we live in where we step over another human…
streaming update: we add appletv to the mix
We’ve added something new to our streaming capabilities: AppleTV. I never thought I’d own an Apple product, but one app made it irresistible: CraveTV. Crave is a Canadian streaming service…
Rick Mercer On The Incredible Drabness of Andrew Scheer
It couldn't have been a more revealing contrast. Andrew Scheer gathered with his Con caucus in Victoria.Plotting 101 ways to destroy Justin Trudeau, in a small sweaty room reeking of…
The travels and trials of Trump.
President Donald Trump of the U.S.A. went to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland the other day. Few of the attendees at the world convention of capitalism cared. The…
Me on #MeToo at CBC #YYC
Heading back to TeeDot this morn after a great time in Calgary. I did some radio and TV stuff at CBC Calgary yesterday – on #MeToo but also Kent Hehr,…
Mark and Connie Fournier of Free Dominion Declare Bankruptcy
It has been a while since ARC last wrote about Mark and Connie Fournier of the (not so) dearly departed Free Dominion. While ARC certainly had a rather contentious relationship…
Musical interlude
Henrik B feat. Christian Alvestam – Now and Forever
Friday Evening Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Wanda Wyporska discusses why we can’t expect a group of cloistered elites to do anything to solve the changeable dimensions of inequality. –…
Madigan’s motion jeopardizes town
On January 15, Councillor Bob Madigan made a motion (seconded, of course, by his puppetmaster, Deputy Mayor Saunderson) to limit the progress of the Indigo/Eden-Oak/McNabb development at the south end…
Site C Dam Eyed to Power Yukon’s Mining Boom
A new proposal to send power from B.C.’s Site C dam to remote Yukon mines is baffling on both environmental and financial grounds, according to Yukon mining analyst Lewis Rifkind.…
Vic? Seriously?
Dear #onpoli: Just got out of teaching my @UCalgary law class and learned #PCPO picked Vic Fedeli. Um, when your party’s problem is out-of-touch guys who don’t get it, you…
Dutch Intelligence Hacked the Russians Who Hacked the DNC
There have been rumblings from time to time about Dutch and German intelligence services knowing something, perhaps a lot, about Russian efforts to meddle in America’s 2016 presidential election. It…
An Easy Test of Cultural Appreciation Not Appropriation, Oluo 11/18
Chapter 10 of Ijeoma Oluo’s deeply valuable So You Want to Talk About Race focuses on the how to appreciate culture instead of appropriate it. It debates whether white people…
The “N” Word Debate Is Over, Oluo 10/18
Chapter 9 of Ijeoma Oluo’s awesome So You Want to Talk About Race focuses on the debate about whether various people can/should say the “N” word. When I watched Dear…