With Friends Like These….
Now that the Alberta election has passed, the eyes of most of the Canadian political scene are looking towards this falls Federal Election as the next big political event to…
April 2019
Monbiot Sees Mankind in a Fight for Life with Capitalism
You might not like his ideas but they’re well worth airing. Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, writes that it’s time to ditch capitalism before it puts us in the grave. Capitalism’s…
What Impact will the 2019 Federal Budget have on Canada’s Housing Market?
I’ve written a blog post about what the recent federal budget means for Canada’s housing market. Points I make in the blog post include the following: -The budget contains several…
He’s Also Illiterate
This dummy can’t even get the F word right.
Will We Let Them Off the Hook Again? Sure We Will.
There are times when politicians have to treat voters like grown-ups. This is one of those moments. Like it or not, we live in perilous times. It is in such…
LawFact of the Day: Personal Injury
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Thursday April 25, 2019. Today we are talking about Personal Injury. You may bring an action for damages against municipality if…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – James Whittingham argues that the time for climate action measured in small household tweaks has long since passed. And Yanis Varoufakis and…
Play the Trolley Problem in Dr. Trolley’s Problem
Long time readers of Things Are Good will know that I like philosophy and moral actions. In fact I like that stuff so much I made a game about it…
Doug Orwell
I doubt that Doug Ford reads much. I doubt that he’s read George Orwell’s novel, 1984. Maybe somebody’s read it to him. He’s certainly sounding like the man who coined…
Go, Joe, go!
So, I’m going to be volunteering for the Democrats again this Summer. And this is the candidate I’m going to be supporting, too. Why Joe Biden? I’m aware of his…
Bountiful B.S. for the Beer Store.
When even the Toronto Star gets in line to support the Beer Store’s battle with Ford and Friends at Queen’s Park, you know the fight is on. Just the other…
‘Foreign funded special interests’ and Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party: The ‘New Conspiracism’ comes to Alberta
The new conspiracism has come to Alberta! What is the “New Conspiracism,” you ask, and how is it different from the old conspiracism? “‘Classic’ conspiracy theories … arise in response…
Tyson Hunt of The Clann Recruits People To Assault Anti-Fascist Counter-Portestes…. on Kijiji
So the mantra of the right is that it is “antifa” who are violent and they are victims who are only defending themselves. Aside from the fact at being an…
“Managing the Problem”
The House of Commons is currently on it’s last big break before they rise for the Summer. After that, when the Fall comes, the writ will drop and the 43rd…
Primitive vs Civilized Societies
As someone born in 1950 and raised and educated in a Eurocentric culture I learned early that civilized societies are intellectually, socially, and technologically superior to primitive societies. This despite…
Some Hard Take-Aways for Greens from Last Night’s Election in Price Edward Island
Greens across the nation woke up this morning to welcome news that the PEI Green Party, under able leader Peter Bevan-Baker, surged at the polls on Tuesday evening, electing a…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Tom Parkin writes about the need for workers to be at the centre of a Green New Deal for Canada: Those determined to…
The UN Cares About Your Local Housing Crisis
Without a doubt a global housing crisis is hurting all of us. In the majority world basic housing needs aren’t being met while in the richer minority world owning a…
The Morning After: PEI Election Edition
Yesterdays election on Prince Edward Island ended up delivering on the drama that many of us expected, even if the result wasn’t what many had anticipated. The result of the…
The Rich Are Getting Worried
Dominic Rushe writes in The Guardian that the wealthy are worried. Ray Dalio is the latest billionaire to air his unease: Dalio, founder of Bridgewater, the world’s biggest hedge fund,…