Justin Trudeau: Climate Change Villain or Hero?
Although Justin Trudeau is doing more to fight climate change than any other Prime Minister in Canadian history, a lot of Canadians think he could be doing more.And while that's…
May 2019
UCP posturing around public sector wages portends a return to perpetual crisis in health care
The United Conservative Party Government’s transparent early manoeuvres around public sector wage negotiations and the heavy hints found in a paper by the chair of Premier Jason Kenney’s “blue ribbon…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Slumbering cats.
May 14:It doesn’t get better.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/un-global-warming-climate-change-1.5132888_______________________________________________________________ There is lots of news on a resurgence of anti-abortion movements in the U.S.Anti-abortion….these are the same people who cheer their hero military for starving children children to death…
Edson, AB Hate Crime Suspect Identified; Linked to Blood & Honour in Alberta
Earlier this week someone drove a stolen vehicle into a provincial building/court house scrawled antisemitic vandalism on the walls in Edson, Alberta. Police said at the time the case would…
Leader-Post Is “Controversial”
Controversial is a code word for “racist”. That’s according to multiple tweets by the Leader-Post in Regina, Saskatchewan. Reading into the linked article, there was a passage from Wikipedia, not…
Is This All That Stands in the Way of NDP-Green Electoral Co-operation?
Canada’s political ground is shifting – and the upheaval is largely as a result of Canadians’ growing awareness of, and concerns over climate change. Here’s what I’m seeing: Greens recently…
Earthgauge News – May 14, 2019
https://earthgauge.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/mixdown-18-05-14.mp3 Environmental news podcast featuring stories from across Canada and around the world. Broadcast every other Tuesday at 12:00 noon EST on CKCU radio 93.1 FM in Ottawa or on…
This much political stupidity is actually quite rare
Trudeau’s PMO has it in abundance. #LavScam scandal has dropped them to under 30% in Nanos (!), so what do they do? They bring into PMO the first guy to…
When All That Held You Together was Graft
The British Columbia Liberal Party, successor to the market fundamentalist, social conservative Social Credit party, had a good run governing British Columbia. Good for the BC Libs, not so much…
Climate Change Denialism Still Lurks in the Heart of New Dems
Many thanks for veteran New Democrat Cam Holstrom’s acknowledgement that NDP doctrine is to do just as little as possible even on existential threats such as climate change. Holstrom reveals…
Stiglitz – Neoliberalism has Gutted the Middle Class
Nobel laureate and former World Bank chief economist, Joe Stiglitz, contends we urgently need to replace neoliberalism with progressive capitalism. Three years ago, President Donald Trump’s election and the United…
On transitions
I’ll offer a reply to Cam’s knee-jerk response to the federal NDP’s long-overdue push for the basic necessities of responsible economic and environmental policy – including real carbon emission reductions…
It’s a Manly Thing. Jagmeet Now Opposes Fracking.
Just days after the New Dems were tossed in the Nanaimo-Ladysmith by-election by the Green Party candidate, Paul Manly, a clearly panicked Jagmeet Singh has become “woke” on climate change.…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Eoin Higgins discusses a new report by Elizabeth Warren and Pramila Jayapal on a U.S. political system which is even more corporatist…
Panic! At the NDP Disco
As we get closer to the summer and then the Fall election, the pressure is starting to ramp up on the various parties in Ottawa. For each party, that pressure…
The Faces of the Global Climate Strike Movement
Climate change can’t be ignored anymore. Every year we see an increase in deaths directly related to climate change from flooding to heat waves. Young people are inheriting a planet…
He’s Always On Transmit
Who is Doug Ford at his core? Martin Regg Cohn writes that he’s a one way communicator. He’s always on transmit: Horsepower and political power have one thing in common:…
Liberals often quote Nanos. I don’t think they should do that.
Federal Polling: CPC: 35.4% (+0.9)LPC: 29.7% (-2.1)NDP: 15% (-0.9)GPC: 11.3% (+2.6)BQ: 4.4% (-0.2)PPC: 0.9% (-) Nanos Research / May 10th / 1000 Respondents / Telephone / MOE 3.1% (% Changes…
Mayor Tory asks the rhetorical.
Asking a question rather than making an accusation is another piece of equipment in the politician’s toolbox. Mayor John Tory of Toronto should be an expert at this form of…