Canada’s Senate: Still not Democratic.
Despite having many friends in the Senate over the years and appreciating some of their hard work, there is no justification for such an elitist and undemocratic component to the…
August 2019
Susan Delacourt can’t be bought
…I knew that would get your attention. Why won’t the Toronto Star report that it now regularly receives hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Liberal government it covers? That…
UCP Government, with no apparent short-term Plan B, seeks leave to appeal injunction suspending Bill 9
Unsurprisingly, the United Conservative Party Government has filed notice of appeal on the temporary injunction granted by the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench that halted application of Bill 9, playing…
Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose? Former Postmedia journalist hired by Kenney Government to ‘reset the record’
Energy Minister Sonya Savage announced last night, in the words of her news release, that “award-winning oil and gas journalist Claudia Cattaneo has joined the fight against the lies and…
What the MSM Missed: NY Fire Commissioners Call For New 9/11 Investigation
NYC Fire Commissioners: “pre-planted explosives . . . caused the destruction of the three World Trade Center buildings”.
We’re Out of Time. You Have to Choose a Side.
It’s a trite cliché to say the time has long since past the critical tipping point when humanity can no longer have it both ways. Every human must, sooner or…
Statement on passing of Tom Manning, by Ray Luc Levasseur
Tom Manning’s death on July 30 has me in the grip of an emotional riptide. I feel like part of me died with him. Tom was imprisoned at USP-Hazelton, WV…
The Triumph of the Fossil Fuelers.
It’s come to the point where, if we don’t stop them, we’re toast. For a couple of years, OPEC and the International Energy Agency have projected big increases in fossil…
August 1:
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2019/august/1566136800/jo-lle-gergis/terrible-truth-climate-change?fbclid=IwAR3sc6L4dIXzScxKJVKpQWLyxdwQs-Bt-S-D68tJo7dE_PdxLal_T1nZY54 This is a new one, all the way from Australia. And you won’t find it in most (any) Canadian commercial news media.________________________________________________________________ Mind you – not all Canadians are…
wallander, roddy doyle, one of us is lying: what i’m reading between massive biographies
These biographies are taking me a very long time to read. The list of books I want to read continues to grow, as always, and it feels wrong to use…
Review — BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom
A short, sharp book exploring what is necessary in Canada, in this era of Black Lives Matter, to transform dominant ...
Review — BlackLife: Post-BLM and the Struggle for Freedom
A short, sharp book exploring what is necessary in Canada, in this era of Black Lives Matter, to transform dominant conceptions of Black personhood – which is to say, dominant…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Kate Lyons points out the health effects of our climate breakdown, including childhood deaths and the stunting of growth. Pheobe Weston reports…
But Is Anyone Listening?
The Star has been running a series on climate change that I have read with some interest, offering as it does a good and extensive primer on the peril we…
Understanding — And Empathy
Everyone knows that Justin Trudeau is a child of privilege. Andrew Scheer plans to drive that message home by presenting himself in stark contrast to Trudeau. He claims that he…
Thinking of Election Week on a hot day.
Yes, it is the dog days of summer and nobody is really interested in politics. We understand that. It is not as though the old pros are stymied. They can…
Regardless of Jason Kenney’s tweets, the Corporate Mapping Project is uncovering data of value to citizens
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has a well-known propensity to blame Justin Trudeau for things that were done by Stephen Harper, as the debate over who is responsible for the time…