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Man, this sucks. Punk rock’s print bible, gone.
January 2019
The Role Hereditary Chiefs are Playing in the Pipeline Protests out West
Anyone paying attention to national politics in Canada islikely to have heard about a new round of protests in BritishColumbia around the pipeline being built there. Now undernormal circumstances a…
Enough already! It’s time for the NDP to implement the Bighorn park plan immediately
Were provincial officials taking part in town hall meetings on the Alberta Government’s plan to create a park in west central Alberta’s Bighorn Country really harassed and threatened by all-terrain-vehicle…
Yellow Vest Reactionaries Still Posting Their Murder Fantasies To Main Group
First, it looks perhaps like Mr. Malenfant has some explaining to do: The Yellow Vest reactionaries are being called out for the threats to murder Trudeau (as well as members…
Stub History
I’ve been getting rid of some accumulated paper. I found a receipt for a full year of university tuition in 1978-79: $740. I also found a paystub for my minimum…
Alberta Separatism Rears its Goofy Head
Ms Soapbox was thinking about the fog of words when she received a mass mailout letter from someone she’ll call Mr X urging her to join him and thousands of…
2019 PEF Student Essay Contest is Open
The 2019 PEF Student Essay Contest is now open! Calling all Canadian students anywhere in the world and all post-secondary students in Canada who are working on papers taking a…
Learning Electron – Part 1
Over the holidays this year I indulged myself in some guilt-free play: learning Electron. I ran across it reading my Medium feed, via this article demonstrating how to build a…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Talia Lavin writes about the value of shifting the Overton window to enable serious discussion of higher tax rates on the people…
Guest Article: Schism in Edmonton Reactionary Yellow Vest Protest
I admit that I haven’t been following the various reactionary Yellow Vest protests in every community where they are occurring unless something jumps out at me (like the participation of…
Let Them Eat Cake, Trump Official on Furloughed Federal Employees
White House economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, knows a thing or two. For starters, he knows that he’s still getting paid while nearly a million federal employees are not. He also…
Time To Crackdown On The Yellow Vest Loonies
We are told that we shouldn't judge them too harshly. That they are just the Canadian, or the Alberta version, of the yellow vests in France.But their crude signs send…
This is What "Progressive" Looks Like
Yea, there thou mak’st me sad and mak’st me sin In envy that my Lord Northumberland Should be the father to so blest a son— A son who is the…
Stuff Happens IV, The Reckoning, Week 2: Trump TV
I really did not want to write about Donald Trump, at least not in the second week of the year. But the Glowing Orange Menace decided that eating up 90…
my first island off the island: a brief stop in sointula
This week I drove down to Port McNeill — about 30 minutes away, and the home of one of my libraries — and took the ferry to Malcolm Island, to…
Why Protest?
This will be the shortest post ever! Here’s my argument delineated in premises and a conclusion (P=premise, SC=sub-conclusion, C=conclusion): P1. Human beings are wired for immediate, or short-term, survival, not…
The Way We Were
At the risk of being accused of “old-fartism,” I offer the following which a Facebook friend posted. While I don’t agree with the implicit and explicit denigration of the young…
Will Jagmeet Singh Win Burnaby South?
A great deal of recent punditry is creating an expectation that Jagmeet Singh will lose the Burnaby South by-election, forcing him to resign as leader, creating a dilemma for the…
Dear China and Russia: piss off
This web site has been rather critical of our good friends in China and Russia lately – the latter for being a dictatorship run by corrupt white supremacists and homophobes,…
Our Fragile Democracy.
A new index released this week offers a sobering look at how democracy is faring in the United States. According to the 2018 edition of The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy…