Is it the HOW or the WHO?
If the citizens of British Columbia are formally debating their referendum on voting systems, there is one resolution that needs to be debated. The question is “Be it resolved that…
2018
Three Months Inside Alt-Right New York (repost)
An undercover antifascist descends through all nine circles of the alt-right inferno. During my three months inside New York’s alt-right, The Daily Stormer Book Club never got around to reading…
‘Businessman, pundit, and religious activist’ Craig Chandler would be a perfect test for Jason Kenney’s database!
Craig Chandler would be the perfect test case for Opposition Leader Jason Kenney’s new database for identifying and rooting out would-be members, volunteers and candidates whose views are too extreme…
Andrew Scheer and the Con Sex Scandal (Continued)
It's funny. Andrew Scheer was in Toronto yesterday trying to scare Canadians into voting for him.By accusing Justin Trudeau of being soft on crime. Only to find himself accused of…
Canadian Viceregal News: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
David Johnston It has been an interesting couple ofmonths for several of Canada’s viceregal office-holders. The media is actually paying attention to them. And despitethis traditionally only occurring whensomeone has…
Taking A Short Break
That last post was made prior to the midterm elections in the United States. I watched the results and initially was pleased, though not ecstatic. The Democrats did a little…
Nov. 8: It’s not just Trump
The problem is not Donald Trump. The problem is about half of the American population. That’s roughly the number who supported Trump in the mid-terms. The problem originated, I suspect,as…
Things You can do Right Now to Fight Climate Change
With so many reports coming out recently stating that the future of the planet will be decided in the next decade it can feel overwhelming to even try saving the…
Against Prisons, Against Borders: Keynote Event in Montreal with El Jones
Thursday November 15, 2018 6:30pm-8:30pm CEDA 2515 rue Delisle Metro Lionel Groulx Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/493957961084880/ Join us for a keynote talk highlighting the intersection of abolition struggles against prisons and borders!…
Montreal Event: Prison Strikes 101
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 11:00am-1:00pm United Theological College 3521 University Metro McGill College Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1881893441880227/ This workshop will look at prison strikes as an organizing tool, from both an…
Wrong Universe – NaBloPoMo Day 8
My mum was a brilliant woman. So was my grandmother. So is my aunt. So is my other aunt. It’s pretty cool the amount of brain power all the wymmyns…
National Populism is "Unstoppable" – The Guardian
Bad news, democracy fans. National populism may be in your future and it may have less to do with globalization, inequality, or migration than you imagine. Think tribal. The left…
Left-wing liberal media, my ass
Maclean’s ‘The Resistance’ cover reminds us that the cries about ‘liberal left-wing bias’ is all noise and nonsense.
A Tax on Meat?
If implementing a simple (and laughably modest) carbon tax can become a threat to national unity* how then would we ever levy a similar tax on red meat? Climate change…
Protecting Those In Power
It is to state the obvious that there are many actions going on in the background to which we are not privy. Only occasionally do we see the man behind…
Dogs and cats living together, anarchy and chaos, locusts and fire and brimstone
…that’s the chaos into which Toronto has descended. Watch the shocking video I refer to in my tweet, which has been read a quarter of a million times, now. The…
How They Do It
Donald Trump thinks he won the midterm elections. He completely ignores the results in the House of Representatives and focuses on the Senate. But the number of votes for Senate…
While Albertans panicked about state of the oilsands, the Big Five bitumen-extraction corporations made billions
While Albertans have been in flap over the state of the province’s oilsands industry, the Big Five Oilsands extraction corporations have been raking in billions. “Despite the 2014 oil price…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Jovanka Beckles writes that the housing crisis in California – like those elsewhere – needs to be addressed through public investment in…
New column day
Here, on how the U.S. midterms show the political risks of putting corporations over people – and how Saskatchewan citizens should take a hint as to who deserves to be…