Toronto’s Food Waste Powers its Garbage Trucks
Toronto’s garbage trucks are being fuelled by the very thing they are picking up on their routes. The trucks pick up food waste (in a separate bin from recycling and…
November 2019
Turned off, logged out
I turned off Twitter and Instagram, and logged out of Facebook, last month. Click. Bye. Now, that was the first paragraph. In the second paragraph, you are perhaps expecting me…
May Bows Out
Yesterday, Elizabeth May resigned the leadership of the Green Party. It was not a hasty decision. Susan Delacourt writes: It’s a moment that’s been in the works for three years,…
Democracy costs $500?
For the past 60 years, we have watched Canadian politics spiral into a quagmire of failed ideologies and failed leadership. We continue the pattern by choosing leaders by old methods…
Mayor Siebring Will Attempt To Gain Council Support For A New Public Hearing Following A 5-2 Vote To Deny VIMC Expansion Plans
Important North Cowichan Council Meeting November 6th-1:30PM Originally posted by the Sahtlam Neighbourhood Association As many of you now know, Mayor Seibring has used his executive powers to…
Now for something completely different: Podcast bloviations from Yours Truly and friends
I’m busier than that proverbial one-armed paperhanger right now, so it’s possible that production of posts on this blog is going to fall for the next couple of weeks from…
That’s how you do it, Canada
You don’t hire him again. You suspend him. From CNN: A high school teacher has been placed on administrative leave in California after he wore blackface to school on Halloween,…
Democratic delusion
“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.” Even with contribution limits, generous as they are, government remains biased toward serving interests…
A Ten Year Old’s Angst-Ridden Journey Through The Nuclear Fall of 1983 (And Why The Day After Still Terrifies Me)
It happens to me every fall. The leaves change colour and fall, the trees take on an ominous look, and once again I am filled with an existential dread that…
Green Fade
Now that we have entered into November and with a couple of weeks before the Liberals name their new cabinet, the parties are starting to put the pieces back together.…
Too late for a Carbon Tax…
Black Death Comes to The City I was futzing about again with marks becoming an image. Over a few days the scribbles turned into this. Today the article below showed…
Leading by example
The Toronto Star has many excellent stories in today’s paper about lead in water pipes. It’s a must-read. Link to their web site here.
Is representative democracy actually democratic?
“If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.” – Mark Twain In its origin, democracy was participatory. The ancient Greeks defined democracy (dēmokratía) as “rule of the…
V.I. Lenin On Imperialism & Opportunism
available from leftwingbooks.net Author: V.I. Lenin Format: Paperback Size: 191 pages ISBN: 978-1-894946-94-0 Publisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing 2019 Price: $17.55 (CAD) or $13.00 (USD) This collection of texts by V.I. Lenin…
November 10th: Ottawa’s 6th Annual Feminist Fair
November 10th, 11am-4pm Horticulture Building at Lansdowne Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/493858394771176/ Kersplebedeb and PM Press will be tabling at the 6th Annual Feminist Fair, happening Sunday November 10th at the Horticulture Building…
Nov. 16-17 in Montreal: Expozine!
Gratuit – Free! La plus grande foire annuelle bilingue de petits éditeurs en Amérique du Nord est de retour ! The largest bilingual small press fair in North America is…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of November 4, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 4, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: US Justice Department appeals order to turn over Mueller grand jury materials…
Class Struggle in Chile: President Piñera At War With His Own People
The large anti-government protests in Chile have led to more than 18 deaths. Photo by Getty. Chile has been held up for decades as South America’s clearest example of the…
Ten things to know about the 2019-20 Alberta budget
I’ve just written a ‘top 10’ overview of the recent Alberta budget. Points raised in the post include the following: -The budget lays out a four-year strategy of spending cuts,…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Michael Spence discusses how a wealth tax can work, while noting that the worst possible response to growing inequality is to refuse to…