A new “think tank” with close connections to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation received $50,000 last year from the Donner Canadian Foundation, a prominent funder of right-wing ideological organizations in Canada.…
Remember this guy? That’s Timothy Reid Gavin, member of the Proud Boys from Hamilton who was involved in the rather disastrous march in the city which ‘lil old ARC exposed…
The historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari says we’re living in the Age of Bewilderment, the old stories have collapsed and the new stories have not yet been written. Ms…
Photo by The White House When Donald Trump declared NAFTA to be “the worst deal” in American history (and the worst deal ever signed “by any country”), those who had…
Photo by the Foundation for Economic Education Climate change is hitting hard. The heat waves and fires of this past summer — and this fall’s storms and tornados — are…
OTTAWA, January 4, 2019 – A comprehensive complaint has been filed with the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) regarding the Jewish National Fund of Canada (JNF Canada). The complaint, submitted in…
In following the reactionary Yellow Vests protests in Canada, there has already been a great deal of factionalism within that movement. Now there's trouble between adjacent movements: THREAD:Does everyone want…
We often forget how quickly technology can move. While, Benz developed his first car in 1885; it was the development of Henry Ford’s Model T and his new innovative manufacturing…
I’m back. Did you miss me? No? Well, some of you did. Mostly nice family members who idly asked me at Christmas dinner why I didn’t write my weekly news…
She’s possibly Canada’s best known climate scientist even if she is from Texas. I have mentioned Katharine Hayhoe a number of times over the years. She’s quite intriguing. For starters…
It’s more than ironic that Jerry Falwell Jr. is one of Donald Trump’s strongest supporters. Christine Emba writes in The Washington Post: On New Year’s Day, Liberty University President Jerry…
The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and eight seconds in 2013. A drop of about 33 per cent. Trump doesn’t merely understand this. He is this.…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Paul Krugman examines the economics of a higher tax rate on extreme high-income individuals: Diamond, in work with Emmanuel Saez — one…
One of the benefits of receiving the print edition of the Toronto Star seven days a week is the Sunday edition. While not necessarily replete with news, the Sunday paper…
Trying to get Canadians to agree to a carbon tax must be for Justin Trudeau like trying to roll a massive boulder, or Doug Ford, up a steep hill.The country…
I really love this book. First of all, the chapter headings and sub-headings are all clever little in jokes, like “Beyond Google and Evil,” that make anyone with a cursory…
There are walls to keep people in. There are walls to keep people out. They all ultimately fail. Walls to keep people in are just a challenge to human ingenuity.…
Winston Churchill (apocryphally, as it turns out) is believed to have said, “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” In light of British Columbia’s…
Winston Churchill (apocryphally, as it turns out) is believed to have said, “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” In light of British Columbia’s…
With a federal election looming this fall, mainstream pundits have already written off the federal New Democratic Party and its leader, Jagmeet Singh, relegating Mr. Singh to history’s discard bin…
