The Total Humiliation of the Con Clown Lisa Raitt
Lisa Raitt has made a fool of herself many times in the course of her long and sordid career.With one of the most notorious examples being the time she was…
June 2019
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne comments on the war being waged by Canada’s right-wing governments against workers. – Dion Rabouin writes about the product of decades…
My latest: when Trudeau calls it genocide
Genocide. That’s what the Prime Minister of Canada says Canada is guilty of — the crime of crimes. That’s what the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal called it, too, when…
New Zealand’s Wellbeing Budget
In a consumer economy, priority is placed on stuff, ever more stuff. The measure of the economy is a function of consumption which is, more accurately, a process of extraction,…
On The Docks
On the Prowl Dinner
Think Amerika Isn’t Fascist? Ask Hugh Culverhouse.
The Miami-based real estate investor has a soft spot for Alabama, the state where his family lived for generations, the place where he was born and raised. My family’s roots…
Arctic Coastline Retreats – a Metre a Day
A team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh ran tests on Herschel Island, just off the Yukon, to observe the rate of loss of coastal permafrost in the warming…
Magpie Brûlé Podcast: The Rest of the 42nd Parliament & Readying for the 43rd Federal Election
After a bit of a hiatus, today I took the time to record and post the newest episode of the Magpie Brûlé podcast. In this newest episode, I review what’s…
Plausible Socialism
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a widespread sense that liberal capitalism had triumphed in the battle of ideas, and that socialism as a plausible alternative was…
If You Follow Ontario Politics
… this requires no explanation: H/t Patrick Corrigan If you need a bit of a primer, however, allow me to introduce the chief sheep: We think it’s only fair that…
Saturday Photo: Hidden Corners in the City
We had friends from San Francisco in town last week, and spent some great times talking and walking and talking and drinking wine. One of our walks took us to…
Our D Day?
In the wake of the 75th anniversary of D Day, some are drawing analogies between the climate crisis and the Second World War. Certainly, Elizabeth May sees a connection. Susan…
The Tweeting of the Twits.
What wannabe politician will dare venture into the electoral fray this fall unarmed with a hashtag of caring? Will the banality of the Twitter blather drive us to Snapchat or…
Musical interlude
Matthew Good – Decades
Doug Ford’s Sad and Pathetic Anniversary
He is without a doubt the worst premier Ontario has ever known, a dumb Con beast who has disgraced himself over and over again.But as he prepares to celebrate his…
How will Alberta politicians respond now that groups like Canada’s nurses are demanding action on climate change?
FREDERICTON – On the last day of their national convention in New Brunswick’s capital city today, the approximately 900 delegates of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions overwhelmingly passed a…
Prince Reza Pahlavi Addresses a Meeting of Phoenix Project Supporters in Toronto
Prince Reza Pahlavi Earlier this month Prince Reza Pahlavi, claimant to the throne of Iran, addressed a meeting of international academics, scientists,strategists, researchers, artists,authors, entrepreneurs, and otherintellectuals gathered in the…
Is Justin Trudeau Risking Defeat By Supporting Women’s Rights?
I've always suspected that the toxic Trudeau haters who swarm all over this country like foul smelling roaches, despise Trudeau for more than just his policies.And that many who claim…
Mann Wins!!!! Frontier Centre for Public Policy FOLDS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Mann for successfully putting the boots to Winnipeg's Frontier Centre for Public Policy. They defamed him; he fought back and won. See their grovelling apology below.…