I have an opinion piece in today’s Edmonton Journal about Alberta’s current fiscal situation. Points raised in the blog post include the following: -The Jason Kenney government will almost certainly…
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/journalism-doctor/2019/07/cartoonist-fired-after-trump-cartoon-goes-viral In New Brunswick, where I lived for some 18 years, the Irving family is a name of contempt. They control – and abuse – just about everything in the…
On this 4th of July, when Americans think about the nation’s independence, it is partly under dark clouds. The Trump/GOP regime, desperately trying to “make America great again,” has chosen…
Reading an intriguing book the other day, I was reminded of our species’ inability to restrain our use of technology. The book is Bison and People on the North American…
Want to save the planet? Amend the Constitution. In the United States, such an amendment has been sought since 1996. Here’s what it says: “The natural resources of the nation…
I can’t quite get past this idea of 88. When I read that a survey of Canadian voters found that 88 per cent had lost faith in their government, Parliament,…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Mark Rice-Oxley points out the observations of the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Health as to the stress and mental illness caused by…
Tom Walkom writes that the fight over the carbon tax echoes the furor over the metrification of Canada: Nearly five decades ago, discontented Tories targeted another Trudeau government on another…
One of the most important parts of a well run party in the 21st century is a solid organizing team, one that is able to not only get members activate…
An unwieldy field of two-dozen potential candidates is vying for the Democratic nomination next year in the United States. Luckily, there have been surprises. The key surprise is that two…
Today is Independence Day, the 4th of July, best known in Canada as the setting for the country gothic hit of the same name but, of course, also our cacophonous…
Huge part of my youth, and my sick sense of humour. This fucking sucks.
I have never understood why the Cons and other toxic Trudeau haters get such a perverted pleasure going after our prime minister and his family.But I do know it's not…
Will Sonia Furstenau and her fellow Green MLA’s Adam Olsen and leader Andrew Weaver withdraw support of the BC NDP government over this slap in the face to those residents…
There is much talk about populism these days. The term has a variety of definitions, but the general idea is that society is separated into two groups at odds with…
Canada is a massive country, a huge swath of land stretching to the eastern, western and northern extremes of the North American continent. Being such a geographically large country brings…
This and that for your mid-week reading. – Rick Salutin discusses the needed rise of left-wing populism in the U.S.’ presidential campaign (and elsewhere). – Ed Finn highlights how policies…
Venezuelan authorities have opened a new criminal investigation against self-declared “Interim President” Juan Guaido for his role in the “humanitarian aid” corruption scandal unveiled over the weekend. Attorney General Tarek…
“The fossil fuel industry … is the biggest obstacle to real action on climate change today,” says the co-director of the Corporate Mapping Project, which this morning published an eye-opening…
We live in a culture that exults billionaires. But billionaires, George Monbiot writes, are a problem: All billionaires want the same thing – a world that works for them. For…
