“How dare you!”
“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope?…
September 2019
Why Urban Design and Planning Should Be THE Federal Election Issue
Climate change is THE pressing issue of this election, but the ingredients aren’t being presented to voters. Here are some ideas that will get us off the roads but moving…
Has It Come to This? Must We Revolt?
It’s Climate Week. Today the world leaders are supposed to gather at the UN to turn in their homework – concrete plans to slash greenhouse gas emissions. Not targets, not…
Monday Morning Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Dennis Gruending discusses the significance of the climate crisis in Canada’s federal election. And Sarah Jones interviews Ann Pettifor about the importance of…
My latest: in a campaign about nothing positive, don’t give them something negative
The land is strong. Sound familiar? Remember that? The old-timers do. It was an actual slogan that was deployed in the 1972 federal election campaign. Didn’t work out too well.…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of September 23, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 23, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: Accused Canadian spy calls Russian claims against him ‘garbage’ Brexit fight goes…
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: If We Want a Future, Green New Deal Is Key
Noam Chomsky speaks about humanity’s prospects for survival in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States on 13 April 2017. Robert Pollin stands at his side. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Climate change is…
Hell To Pay
Yesterday, Robin Sears warned that, out in the hinterland, there is palpable rage: My neighbours in northeastern Ontario are quick to vent their rage about all manner of foolish government…
Mannequin Pussy – Drunk II
God, I love the chorus. Love Marisa Dabice’s voice. Dumb video, but the chorus is one for the ages. Epic.
Trump tramples on our territory.
The other day something caught my eye on the opening page of Microsoft’s browser. The company was doing a survey to find out why people dislike their MSN News. I…
Solar and Wind Outgrow Subsidies
Renewable energy systems used to need subsidies to be competitive with the even more subsidized fossil fuel energy systems. Today, despite the fact that globally USD$5.2 trillion was spent on…
Perceptions of Racism in Newfoundland and Labrador #nlpoli
VOCM’s Question of the Day is not a reliable gauge of public opinion. But the three times that VOCM asked about race in the province over the past five years,…
Winding up the gun nuts: Liberals respond to Trudeau’s self-inflicted brownface crisis with a classic counterattack
Years ago, I worked with a union organizer who deployed an effective tactic when one of his unionization drives met resistance from an employer: Launch a diversionary attack from an…
Episode 40: Alberta Politics and Federal Election Q&A
We are back from our summer break with a special Question and Answer edition of the Daveberta Podcast. Dave dives deep into our mailbag to answer some of the great…
Even before #brownface, the 2019 federal election was always about race
By Fatima Syed in Analysis, Politics Election 2019 NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in Ottawa on Oct. 17, 2017. Photo by Alex Tétreault If you have been paying close attention to…
Andrew Scheer and the Old Bigot Story
It's been about a year since I first started writing about Andrew Scheer's relationship with the Alliance MP Larry Spencer, a man so homophobic he wanted to jail LGBT Canadians.It…
Election integrity and platform governance updates
I haven’t been doing a good job of updating this site, and a full refresh is in development, but I wanted to pin some recent work at the top. Below…
Canadians Patriot Party Update: Funds Given to Organization Run by Threeper
In late August, Jayme Knyx and Jay Riedel hosted the Canadians’ Patriot Party in Estevan, SK. Inevitably, it was attended by multiple hate groups, such as C3, Northern Guard, PEGIDA,…
Justin Trudeau in Blackface
Ms Soapbox just returned from Italy with a miserable head cold, jet lag and no luggage. In this pathetic state she is trying to make sense of the Trudeau/blackface stories…
Media waking up on climate crisis
I have long been puzzled why the growing climate crisis has not been better covered in the media. For the greatest threat facing humanity it seemed to get few column…