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…
Gilgamesh continues to enthrall us, even after more than 100 years of translations and interpretations. The story continues to be told and retold and even re-imagined. There’s even a children’s…
Illustration by Gord Hill (The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book) The struggle against the monstrous radical evil that dominates our lives—an evil that is swiftly despoiling the earth and driving the…
It never ceases to amaze me how often I’ll be writing or thinking about something, and then the perfect articles drop in my lap. It might help that I’ve been…
Photo by Steffi Reichert There is much discussion on
Why are people believing Doug Ford’s claims about his effect on gas prices?
Donald Trump has been holed up in the White House for days, in cold grey Washington, when he'd much rather be in sunny Florida playing golf.He's still clinging feverishly to…
It looks like a trip to the woodshed is in order. No, not metaphorically. It’s time to bring in another load of firewood, just in case. When that’s done it…
Conservative leader, Andrew Scheer, seems intent on fighting this year’s federal election on the destruction of our planet and the ruin of Canadian society. By that I mean, Scheer is…
We’re having an election this year. And Leyland Cecco writes in The Guardian that the environment will be — among all the issues — front and centre: When Canadians cast…
Maybe you have never wasted much time on reading Toronto Star writer Rick Salutin. I have never considered his opinions of importance or particularly well founded. I have had the…
Boris Kagarlitsky is one of Russia’s best known Marxist dissidents and who has written widely on a range of issues. His latest offering is one of his best. It is…
Once, about twenty years ago, when I was talking about teaching both sides of the climate change debate in the classroom, a colleague told me, “There’s just one side; the…
It was a matter of time before Paulie, a man who has been at the center of Canadian far-right movement for close to 50 years and who is now desperately…
A kind word for Donald Trump as both Republicans and Democrats gather to destroy him. Yes, he has been a boastful, bullying ass. Yes, he has done nothing for the…
The New Year is a natural time for reflection on what was and what will be. I’ve been thinking about the changes in my own caregiving over the past year:…
