JNF Canada Has Supported Israeli Army, Settlements
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…
January 2019
Conflicting Ottawa Convoy Commitments Create Controversy
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…
On Alberta, West Virginia and a conversation about Oil
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…
Stuff Happens IV: The Reckoning. Week 1, when not much happened.
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…
Take It From Katharine.
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…
Evangelical Hypocrisy
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…
Why Trump wins
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.…
Sunday Morning Links
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…
Things We Would Like To Forget
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…
Justin Trudeau and the Global Carbon Tax Challenge
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…
Gertz’s Nihilism and Technology
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…
The world’s worst walls.
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.…
Pro Rep: Infinity War; or, In Defence of Endless Referendums
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…
Pro Rep: Infinity War; or, In Defence of Endless Referendums
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…
Brian Topp, NDP strategist who led Rachel Notley’s 2015 war room, describes what Jagmeet Singh must do this year to win
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…
Jan. 5: The bottomless pit….
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/torrance-california-bowling-alley-shooting-1.4967245 Wow! The killers must have been them there migrant women and children from Central America. I mean, Americans never shoot each other._________________________________________________________________ For the last couple of days, I’ve…
Fossil fuel fanaticism
Fossil fuel promoters had either not read the FCA judgment, or reject it for their own reasons. Many of these people applauded when a court jailed opponents of Trans Mountain…
On Taxing the Rich
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the freshest Democrat to hit the White House, is making headlines for mimicking the dance sequence from The Breakfast Club back in college, and wanting to raise marginal…
Here’s a Term We’ve Come to Ignore – "Proportionality"
Why does Canada support war criminals? Why does Ottawa support regimes that routinely commit war crimes and crimes against humanity? Saudi Arabia is a blatant example with its slaughter of…
The Canadian Carceral State: What is to be done? Ask prisoners!
My name is Jarrod Shook. I am a writer, student, poet, activist, and, for the last twelve years, a number: 892083E. I suppose there isn’t anything exceptional about being a…