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…
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”…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
JWR and Philpott have announced that they will run as independents.
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…
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…
“I did my job and spoke the truth…I will work with integrity.” @Puglaas on the three things @JustinTrudeau lacks. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/NVWipkgOzG — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 27, 2019 One of…
Wilson-Raybould has announced she’ll seek re-election in Vancouver-Granville as an independent. I expect her decision means that riding is lost to the Liberals even if she doesn’t win in October.…
