a reading plan for 2019: the year of the biography?
A new biography of Frederick Douglass has gotten glowing reviews, and as Douglass is one of my great heroes — one of the greatest Americans — I definitely want to…
January 2019
Statistics Canada’s Ongoing Consultation about the Market Basket Measure Needs Recalibration
Things are moving quite fast, even too fast, since the federal government’s first poverty reduction strategy was published in August, at least for the aspects of this strategy which are…
GDPR Forces NYT to Serve Better Ads
Online media companies were forced to rethink their advertiser policies last year because of the introduction of the GDPR. The New York Times decided to stop using ad services that…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Simon Ducatel discusses how wealth inequality is at the root of continued poverty and deprivation, while Charles Plante notes that anti-poverty strategies…
On the road to Oz, the Lion starts strong.
Dorothy has already clicked her heels and the Cowardly Lion has been the first to put a paw on the Yellow Brick Road. It is very early in the trip…
Home Services Every Homeowner Needs to Know
Nothing beats the excitement of finally living in the newly-purchased property, whether it is a concrete house or an apartment. However, there are things that every resident needs to know,…
Never mind the facts of Canadian history: Brian Jean says … Make Confederation Great Again!
If former Wildrose Party leader Brian Jean established anything on Monday with his Epistle to the Albertans, wherein he set out his “agenda to move Alberta forward,” it’s that he…
Andrew Scheer and the Fascist Connection
The first time I saw Andrew Scheer ranting and raving about the U.N. Global Compact for Migration, I couldn't understand what he was talking about. Or where he got that…
Whatever Happened To? The "Amoral Shysters" Who Rigged Brexit.
“If we allow cheating in our democratic process … What about next time? What about the time after that? This is a breach of the law. This is cheating. This…
Liberal Candidate Karen Wang* Leaves Burnaby South Byelection After Racist Comments Against Jagmeet Singh!
There is NEVER room for racist attacks or racial valuations in Canadian politics! It's appropriate that the Liberal Candidate has withdrawn her candidacy in this key byelection! Press Progress *…
Liberal Candidate Karen Wang* Leaves Burnaby South Byelection After Racist Comments Against Jagmeet Singh!
There is NEVER room for racist attacks or racial valuations in Canadian politics! It's appropriate that the Liberal Candidate has withdrawn her candidacy in this key byelection! Press Progress *…
Liberal Candidate Karen Wong Leaves Burnaby South Byelection After Racist Comments Against Jagmeet Singh!
There is NEVER room for racist attacks or racial valuations in Canadian politics! It’s appropriate that the Liberal Candidate has withdrawn her candidacy in this key byelection!Press Progress
what i’m reading: occupy nation by todd gitlin
Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street is a history and ethnography of Occupy Wall Street, and the Occupy movement. Author, sociologist, and longtime…
WEF – Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Next week the glitterati of politics, industry and finance will gather at Davos, Switzerland to ruminate over what ails our world and how to exploit fix it. This year, the…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday January 16, 2018. Today we are talking about Family Law. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Damian Carrington reports on new research showing that it’s possible to stop climate change in its tracks – but only by beginning to…
Brits’ Brexit Bonkers.
Oh, the Brits did it up right proper yesterday. That parliament of woolly thinking, stepped out the palace window looking for the executioner with his axe. “Come, chop off our…
Planning for a Zero-Growth Economy
The economy is sometimes referred to as an entity outside of human control – it isn’t. We control the economy through policies and practices in each nation. The last half…
Blown off by Jason Kenney’s UCP last fall, former Wildrose MLA Rick Strankman heads for the Independent benches
When this blog’s entirely fictional Vegas oddsmaker Jimmy “The Geek” Porcospino celebrated the first birthday of the United Conservative Party last summer by setting the next year’s resignation odds for…