Don’t Give Gifts this Year
If you care about people and want to demonstrate that care through the acquisition of material wealth: stop. This holiday season you should try something different by not buying material…
December 2019
Great tweets of the day, animal edition
Here are some good animal tweets: What a shot! pic.twitter.com/CEWkWEPMNc — Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) December 15, 2019 pic.twitter.com/A5xgSYsSj1 — Right Wing, Shoots Left ????? (@HILITINGHOCKEY) December 14, 2019 I can’t…
Redefining conservatism: A zero sum game.
Our conservative friends are all in a tizzy. They think they are going to get to redefine their party. Fat chance, is the only answer for them. In a party…
Three books for Christmas #nlpoli
Top Choice Where Once They Stood is arguably the most significant work on modern Newfoundland and Labrador political history in more than 30 years. The fact that it has been…
That’s embarrassing! Alberta’s court filing in carbon tax fight says NDP carbon tax did no harm
The linked weekend revelations that the NDP’s carbon tax had no meaningful negative impact on Alberta’s economy and that 40 per cent of Albertans received carbon-tax rebates larger than the…
Building bridges when the cause has been hijacked
I remember something my late friend Michael C. Ruppert told us one night in our weekly CollapseNet conference call regarding Alex Jones. “Alex Jones is a liar and a trojan…
Skagway bound
Its been a long, long time since I wanted to do something as much as I want to do this. I’ve been there. I loved it. I want to do…
Andrew Scheer and the Ghost of Stephen Harper
Once upon a time Andrew Scheer's Twitter feed pumped out a grotesque anti-Trudeau attack ad about every six hours, seven days a week.But now that torrent of Con diarrhoea has…
North Cowichan to forge new path for the Six Mountains beginning in early 2020
In a few weeks, North Cowichan residents will get their first peek at plans for a public consultation process into the future of the Six Mountains/Municipal Forest Reserve. Megan Jordan,…
Talking the Fiscal Update & the Conservative Leadership on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Alise Mills. We talked about today’s fiscal update from Finance Minister…
Review: Weapons of the Weak
A classic from a political scientist of anarchist proclivities doing what amounts to anthropology and studying the fine-gr...
Review: Weapons of the Weak
A classic from a political scientist of anarchist proclivities doing what amounts to anthropology and studying the fine-grained class relations in a peasant village in Malaysia in the late ’70s…
Episode 46: Best of Alberta Politics in 2019
With a provincial election, a change in government, a federal election, and much more in between, 2019 was a big year in Alberta politics. Tina Faiz and Natalie Pon join…
When poverty mattered: the Poor People’s Conference of 1971
The following is an excerpt from Paul Weinberg’s new book, When Poverty Mattered: Then and Now, released this year by Fernwood Publishing. Unknown to the people at the Toronto based…
Hope Lies In The Streets
The decay and rupture of the social bonds that once held our societies together have unleashed the dark pathologies of opioid, alcohol and gambling addictions and led to an explosion…
Someone interfered in the UK election, and it wasn’t Russia
UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn visiting local Rugby candidate Debbie Bannigan, December 5, 2019. Photo from Flickr. Ladies and gentlemen I have here at my fingertips indisputable proof that…
We’re still waiting for a trade deal that benefits working people
Then-Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and then-Mexican Minister of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo during NAFTA talks in 2017. Photo by the U.S. Department of State. United…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of December 16, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of December 16, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: NHL commissioner speaks at Board of Governors meeting following allegations against coaches…
More Waves
Jody Wilson-Raybould is making waves again. She’s refusing to leave her minister’s office, even though she is now an independent MP. Susan Delacourt writes: Rank matters when it comes to…
Imperfection is the Perfect Goal
Many people want to be perfect and they spend a lot of their energy trying to improve themselves so they appear perfect. This is a fool’s game as perfection is…