Ronny Cameron and Richard Spencer: The Thrill Is Gone
ARC hasn’t published much about Ronny Cameron in some time, mainly because there hasn’t been much to write about. Oh, he’s still the same jackass he’s always been, but he…
January 2019
Too Damn Dumb to Live
In recent years, British Columbia has been averaging somewhere close to 10 fatalities a year from avalanches. Many of the victims, it seems, are Albertans. The latest to die are…
You’re going to die. Again.
Yeah, I know: we’re ALL going to die sooner or later. No one gets out of here alive. But that doesn’t stop people from saying the end is nearer than…
What is Screen Ethics?
An excerpt from my forthcoming book, Buying In to Doing Good: Documentary Politics and Curatorial Ethics at the Hot Docs Film Festival (tentative title), to be published by McGill-Queen’s University…
Why Is Andrew Scheer Encouraging The Yellow Vest Crazies?
In my last post I looked at the way Canada's yellow vest movement has been taken over by alt-right extremists, and how many of them are calling Justin Trudeau a…
Humpty Trumpty (The Story of Sir TanTrumpALot)
Humpty Trumpty … America has failed the world.
Pushing back on Canada’s war on drug users
Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction Travis Lupick Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017 Every night that Overdose Prevention Ottawa ran its illegal…
Capitalism: A Crime Story
Capitalism: A Crime Story Harry Glasbeek Between The Lines, 2018 Harry Glasbeek is a real oddity — a lawyer and professor of corporate law who specializes in exposing the way…
David Camfield’s We Can Do Better
We Can Do Better: Ideas for Changing Society David Camfield Fernwood, 2017 Around the world, people are increasingly looking beyond mainstream politics to combat right-wing populism, growing wealth inequality, and…
Wishful Thinking? The World Economic Forum’s Cure for What Ail’s Humanity, Globalization 4.0
Acknowledging that the globalization associated with the neoliberal era led to enormous damage to the masses, the World Economic Forum will be launching the cure in Davos, Switzerland this month…
What is Screen Ethics?
Below is an excerpt from my manuscript Buying In to Doing Good: Documentary Politics and Curatorial Ethics at the Hot Docs Film Festival , to be published by McGill-Queen’s University…
Things We Don’t Know
One of the things I have always used this blog for is to bring to readers’ notice things they might be unaware of. For example, although most of us know…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Erlend Sandoy and Saskia Kerkvliet offer a graphic explainer of the causes and costs of high-end tax avoidance. And Eric Rankin reports on…
Federal political leaders, reviewed
So: A Liberal leader who demotes/disrespects competent, respected women who are indigenous or handled important indigenous files, likely because they threaten his celebrity. A Conservative leader who has a taxpayer-subsidized…
On Dr. Jordan Peterson: The True And Real Story
He's a con artist. He's got a book, he's got a speaking tour, and when's he's not flogging the book he's flogging his daughter's all meat diet to get his…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of January 14, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 14, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: Unfair stereotypes of domestic assault victims led to conviction for B.C. woman,…
This cabinet shuffle is a joke
A Canadian being sentenced to death by China is more important. But this is astonishing. Demoting the most competent indigenous cabinet minister in Canadian history: that’s the legacy of this…
On Dr. Jordan Peterson: The True And Real Story
He’s a con artist. He’s got a book, he’s got a speaking tour, and when’s he’s not flogging the book he’s flogging his daughter’s all meat diet to get his…
Let’s Admit Intellectual Property is Nonsense
Depending on your worldview Intellectual Property (IP) is either necessary or holds us back in terms of cultural (and economic ) development. IP applies to more than what you may…
Mr. Trump as a savant?
The other day, reading something from a forgettable writer, I started out laughing at the presentation of U.S. president Donald Trump as a savant. Please understand that a savant is…