Fighting Back Against the Con Smear Machine
With less than five months to go before the election, one thing at least seems clear to me. The Cons are not only leading in the polls. They're winning the…
May 2019
Updating the Oath
Canada is a country that has immigration as a big part of its history. Every year in this country, thousands of people complete their path to citizenship at ceremonies from…
Court Reporters May Be Writing Down Black People’s Testimonies Wrong (repost)
In 2013, Rachel Jeantel, a close friend of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, testified during the trial of George Zimmerman. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Court…
How “Pick-Up Artists” Morphed Into The Alt-Right (repost)
Support our comics! Become a Nib member and get our print magazine full of amazing artists. Read the rest of this post on the original site at How “Pick-Up Artists”…
Free Max Bernier analogy
They liked it over on Twitter. He's the porch light of Canadian politics: he attracts all the bugs and the creepy-crawlies. You end up using less insecticide, because they're all…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Peter Eavis points out how U.S. CEOs are only seeing their exorbitant pay soar even further due to Donald Trump’s tax giveaways.…
Too Good Not To Share
Rabid partisanship being what it is, Twitter user Mike Vlasic offers this perspective: Reminds me of the old "Niagara Falls" sketch, where the words trigger violent outbursts. Similar to the…
The New Mass Media
Chris Hedges writes that there have been three media revolutions in the last thirty-five years: the rise of right-wing radio and Fox-style TV news that abandon the media’s faux objectivity,…
Copp out
In one of my books, The War Room, I have a chapter called the Scandal Handle Manual. Here’s a bit of it: None of us Chrétienites hated Martin or Gomery,…
How to Avoid and Economic Crisis while Addressing the Climate Crisis
The impacts of the climate crisis increase in reach and damage every year with more people feeling the consequences. People have finally woken up to the fact that we need…
Defining a different destiny.
Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott have chosen their political destiny. They have chosen the path to likely political oblivion. There are few politicians who have come back from the Coventry…
Deficit $250 – $300 million higher than announced before election according to Premier #nlpoli
In the episode that aired on 26 May 2019, Premier Dwight Ball told NTV’s Issues and Answers that the deficit for the current budget is between $800 – $900 million.…
United Conservative Party introduces the Open for Fast Food Act – sorry about the 13% pay cut, kids
Premier Jason Kenney’s newly elected United Conservative Party introduced its second bill yesterday, calling it the Open for Business Act. The NDP immediately dubbed Bill 2 the Pick Your Pockets…
The Liberals Double Down. Is There an Election Looming?
When it comes to climate change the Liberals take the cake for hypocrisy. Apparently some sinister force is thwarting their earnest efforts to declare a climate state of emergency for…
The Need and Will to Change: The Lessons Alberta can learn from Cape Breton and Research in Motion
In 1997, Apple was a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy. It was not Palm. It was not Research in Motion. While, Steve Jobs had returned to them…
Third-Party Engagement
In Canada over the past decade we’ve seen the continual growth of the phenomena of the “perpetual campaign”; when the campaign never seems to stop, running one into the next…
And the winner is … NO ONE
JWR and Philpott have announced that they will run as independents.
Eviscerating The Bitumen Bullshit
Give Jason Kenney, his predecessor, Rachel Notley, and our prime minister, Justin Trudeau, their due. When it comes to bitumen and bullshit they’ll lay it on just as thick as…
Independents Day
The day that many in the Canadian political scene has been waiting for has come. Both Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott held press conferences in their ridings, announcing their intentions…