Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
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September 2019
My Dear Jason Kenney. Please, Go For It. Don’t Hesitate. Do It Now.
The Alberta Tories are itching to launch an orgy of cost-cutting. Their oil is worth shit. Before long the bottom might just fall out of the bitumen markets. It’s a…
Talking Election Prep, NDP defections & Max’s Twitter Bullying on CFRA with Evan Solomon
This afternoon I had the chance to join CFRA’s Evan Solomon again, this time with Warren Kinsella and Jason Lietaer. We talk about the parties preparing for the upcoming election,…
NDP ad: this is really good
And their slogan – In It For You – is way better than the ungrammatical word salads the Grits and the Tories have conjured up. Way. As I just told…
Uh, Uh. Trudeau Enthusiasts Won’t Like This
Start at the 1:40 mark to see what I mean. To whet your appetite, here are some viewer comments: What an awesome way to drop that Saudi Arabia thing. Hasan’s…
New Brunswick New Dems Defect En Masse to GPC
Is this the ‘Jagmeet Singh effect‘ in action? Fourteen disgruntled former New Brunswick NDP candidates are defecting and throwing their support behind the provincial and federal Greens — a move…
Designer Meds – Courtesy of AI
There are signs that artificial intelligence may be the key to unlocking new, effective and affordable drugs for what ails us. From MIT Technology Review. The news: A team from…
A Punch to the Gut
Today has been a day so far, surely not the day many were expecting when it started this morning. Sometimes politics can be just like that, and things can come…
War on Journalism
Axios reports that Trump allies are putting together a fund to launch investigations into reporters and editors of the New York Times, Washington Post and other media outlets. Trump’s war…
Sept. 2: Very little time to grow up.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/university-ottawa-osap-cuts-school-returns-1.5264636 Not to worry. The government needed the money to give more grants to billionaires who don’t pay taxes. We have been watching the Conservative party (and the Liberals) across…
From 1919 to the Fight for $15: Working-class organizing in Winnipeg today
Emily Leedham of Fight for 15 and Fairness speaks at a rally organized by Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1505 outside Winnipeg City Hall in August. Photo from People’s Voice. One…
From America, A New Idea for Breathing Life Back Into Unions
Some of us were lucky to live through the early postwar era marked by the advance of a truly broad-based middle class, a time of genuine prosperity. The middle class…
What Is Our ‘Political Tipping Point’?
The chaos of Hurricane Dorian has climate writer, Kate Oronoff, asking how much destruction will it take for our leaders to treat climate change seriously. Donald Trump has been rightly…
Riding the Atlantic Tiger
Here’s how Philip Klotzbach, a hurricane expert and meteorologist at Colorado State University, demonstrates how dangerous Dorian really is. Since 1950, only 3 Atlantic hurricanes have had max winds stronger…
Spectators To Our Own Collapse
No one would accuse Chris Hedges of frivolously resorting to optimism but, to those who have followed him, his descent into deep pessimism in recent years has been profound, even…
Trudeau’s Squandered Opportunities
As Justin Trudeau nears the end of his government’s first majority mandate it is lamentable how his government still follows in Stephen Harper’s footprints. That’s the conclusion of an op-ed…
Liberals use RCMP in attempt to silence critics of their foreign policy
Yves Engler and Dimitri Lascaris were blocked from attending a talk by the prime minister at the Bonaventure Hotel in Montreal. Still image from YouTube. On Tuesday two RCMP agents…
Folk Music’s Radical Patron: Remembering Mitch Podolak
Photo courtesy the Winnipeg Folk Festival “Move that over and paint it brown.” I always believed that this famous quote by Mitch Podolak (which he denied making), spoke to the…
In It to Win It?
Well it’s finally upon us. With Labour Day now in our rear view mirrors and most children heading back to school, the summer is essentially over. And while the writ…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of September 3, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of September 3, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: Hearings to begin in landlords’ appeal over Toronto rules for Airbnb, other…