“We’ve been sitting on the fence for far too long.” – Caiaphas, “Then We Are Decided,” Jesus Christ SuperstarThe Easter season has come and gone, and despite numerous promises –…
By my Mom. Then the good land did again its healing work and the sun shone on him and healed him and the warm winds of summer wrapped him about…
https://pressprogress.ca/corporate-canadas-pile-of-cash-in-offshore-tax-havens-has-hit-353-billion-for-the-first-time-in-history/?fbclid=IwAR2HX4jHXNy6qNDQ99hlMJqnVMoPFawJk9-eAZbZtL-6AcF6sSSySanUddU 353 billion dollars. That’s our money. It’s the money we should have have to finance education, poverty programmes, health care….. If most of us refused to pay our income…
The time for dithering is gone. We need a government more committed to the fight against climate change than any we’ve ever known. We need an “induced implosion” of the…
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Pat King and Jay Riedel have been touring the country under their “Rollin With Pat & Jay” banner, hosting “town halls” in various towns in western Canada and, currently, Ontario.…
Hardly a day passes without some mass shooting in America. The memorable shootings tend to involve mass mayhem – bodies everywhere. Schools get our attention whether a university, high school…
In politics just about everywhere in the World, there are truisms that really apply just about anywhere you go. One of those truisms is while there are many good people…
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I just realized that, from British Columbia’s eastern border, the barbarians are in control all the way to Quebec. Scheer and Kenney, Moe, Pallister and Ford. Two thousand miles of…
It is confounding to watch the BC NDP frothing over hoped for financial windfalls from LNG fracking operations in a world drenched in oversupply and dropping prices. The risks…
The government says it’s just a few billion dollars a year, no big deal. The IMF tags Canada’s direct and indirect subsidies and benefits to the Oil Patch at something…
Right out of the gate, Justin Trudeau is balking at serious action on climate change. Speaking on Sunday night, Justin Trudeau, the prime minister, suggested that using federal money to…
Good. It seems the British people have done what their political caste has so far refused to do. They have concluded that the world is in a state of climate…
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Tuesday April 30, 2019. Today we are talking about Employment Law. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – James Murray highlights what climate protests have accomplished so far, while emphasizing the need to turn activism into policy change over the…
ARC is pleased to let our readers know that the good folks at Yellow Vests Canada Exposed have joined the blog to write about the reactionary Yellow Vests movement in…
Doug Ford styles himself as The Great Disruptor. But, the truth is, he’s not very good at disrupting things for his own benefit. Martin Regg Cohn writes: The pushback over…
We have reached the end of April and while Spring is coming bit by bit, it can’t get here soon enough for many of us. One group of people happy…
For Andrew Scheer it must have seemed like a religious revelation, of the very wrong kind. The kind born in the hell of his own making.For years he has tried…
