On Capitalism’s Limitations
Every year, when we get to the part of my philosophy course where we read some Marx & Engels, and I ask for criticisms of the reading, like I do…
Every year, when we get to the part of my philosophy course where we read some Marx & Engels, and I ask for criticisms of the reading, like I do…
Some good news for a change. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/02/north-atlantic-right-whales-canadian-waters______________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/03/jamal-khashoggi-suspects-appear-before-saudi-court We will pass lightly over the fact that the Saudi prince who almost certainly ordered the killing is not being arrested. No.…
Imagine that a political party has emerged which condemns secularism and the separation of church and state, promotes the recriminalization of homosexuality, strong censorship of what it deems to be…
…well, actually, they can be. But it is what it is, Twitter-wise.
Lady approaches me at Shiatsu place. SHE: I love your hair! What do you do to hold it up? ME: Pardon? SHE: May I touch it? ME: Um, okay. She…
Why, with Trump, is it always the Russians? His latest stunt – absolving the Russians/Soviets of any wrongdoing for staging a military intervention in Afghanistan in support of its then…
Toronto Sun columnist, Lorrie Goldstein, says, when it comes to climate change, Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer are on the same page. Both leaders, he says, are trying to blow…
There was a time, we called it the Holocene, when the climate worked for us. A gentle, relatively predictable climate allowed humanity, over the course of 12-thousand years, to grow…
I would guess you’re not a meteorologist. Same here. The way climate change is unfolding, however, that would certainly be an asset. Most of us can understand that a warmer…
It looks like 2019 will be the worst year of Donald Trump’s life. As Lawrence Martin sees it, there could be six possible outcomes: We’ll start with his worst, a…
At the start of the year people make new goals for themselves, often those are about improving one’s life. This year instead of focusing on happiness as a goal you…
We humans are a strange species. Despite access to almost unlimited information and data, far too many prefer to notice only what is front of them at the present moment,…
In the travel business, it is always best to choose where you are going first and then you choose the person to serve as guide. It just makes sense. It…
Mitigating the impacts Muskrat Falls will have on taxpayers of Newfoundland and Labrador remains the single biggest unanswered question in the province nine years after the project started and the…
If there’s an Alberta version of what used to be known as a “Kremlinologist,” they’ll be puzzling over yesterday evening’s social media announcement by Premier Rachel Notley about the departure…
Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel got a couple of things right about Jason Kenney’s plan to establish a “war room” in the Ministry of Energy to pump out belligerent propaganda…
With reference to Donald Trumps addiction to junk food
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ annual report on CEO pay shows that executives are again being handed hundreds as much money as…
Here we go again – or should I say, here we go off the rails again.I read with interest a recent article published in Sudbury dot com about the upcoming…
It's a measure of Andrew Scheer's desperation that he couldn't even give himself a break on New Year's Day.But was spotted at a Giant Tiger store, apparently owned by one…