Giving Money Directly to the Poor can Help Entire Communities
Aid to poorer nations isn’t always a direct transfer of wealth, it can be training or other social support. Indeed, it’s often argued that giving money directly can increase corruption…
December 2019
Running in place.
The serious jogger does it when blocked by traffic or a stoplight. It is called running in place because your legs keep moving but you are not moving forward. By…
Episode 45: How the UCP Budget impacts Public Education in Alberta
Public education advocate and school trustee Michael Janz joins Dave Cournoyer on this episode of the Daveberta Podcast to discuss the state of public education in Alberta and how cuts…
Setting minimum wage #nlpoli
The minimum wage should be tied to the economy, predictable, transparent, and removed from political interference. One way of setting minimum wage that meets those criteria would be to take…
We Spend More Than Enough on Our Military
Once again the Americans are leaning on us to spend more on our military. The new U.S. national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, insists it is an “urgent priority” that American…
Sahtlam Neighbourhood Association Pricks VIMC’s Legal Balloon
Fact-Checking the VIMC Lawyer Letter Given the high employee turnover rate at the Vancouver Island Motorsport Circuit, perhaps we can forgive them for consistently getting the facts wrong. After…
The Face of the Petro-State
America’s Taylor Energy is an object lesson in how petro-states succumb to a toxic, climate-wrecking industry. The story begins in the Gulf of Mexico in 2004 when Hurricane Ivan toppled…
The Game Changers: A Bit about Persuasion and Reason and Eating Your Vegetables
I’ve come to believe that determining the very best diet is as individual as figuring out the best course of action to treat anxiety or depression. We are each our…
Left behind: staggering level of waste at Great Bear Rainforest logging operations, data reveals
IN-DEPTH A controversial timber-pricing system may be to blame as forestry companies log the best and leave the rest Ben Parfitt Nov 30, 2019 8 min read Large numbers of…
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Addiction and recovery: time for progressive strategies?
Mural artwork by Smokey D. in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Smokey lost his friend to a fentanyl overdose in 2017 and began painting murals depicting fentanyl overdose tragedies. Canada is clearly…
Standing Up To a Thug
Donald Trump’s efforts to break Iran have suffered another setback. It’s called Instex, the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges. Think of it as a blockade runner that uses currencies…
The Incredible Dumbitude of the Con Clown Leona Alleslev
I have no idea why Andrew Scheer made the Liberal defector Leona Alleslev the deputy leader of his demoralized Cons.But if I look at the poster the Con propaganda department…
The "Age of Fire" – It’s Here
You have to work really, really hard not to see it, this Age of Fire. You have to be really, really young not to remember a world where this wasn’t…
Mark Carney – UN Climate Envoy
Ex-governor of the Bank of Canada, outgoing governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney is to be appointed the UN’s special envoy on climate action and climate finance. Speaking…
The true reason I haven’t been involved in political activism for a while: not time shortage but fear of being wrong.
Life is complicated. I look back at so many things I used to believe and I don’t hold those beliefs anymore. The knowledge of how my beliefs have changed makes…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Laurie Macfarlane writes that contrary to the dogma of budget scolds, the truly reckless course of action is to fail to invest…
maya moore’s quest for justice
Long ago (in internet terms), in the early days of what we then called the Blogosphere, one of the primary functions of blogs was to share other posts and articles…