IMPEACHED
The moment he was.
December 2019
The system works
It does. This is a massive fine. This is a guilty plea to a serious crime. This is justice. If only they had listened to Jody Wilson-Raybould, they’d still have…
What a Way To Close Out a Decade
It’s widely reported that the United States, Japan and Australia subverted the recent Madrid climate summit, deftly blocking any meaningful action to fight climate change. Australia, isn’t that ironic. The…
On Whining About Witch Hunts
Really, what more is there to say? Ding Dong, the witch is…too soon?(more) https://t.co/i17FfR2vAx@goldengateblond @Rosie @janemarielynch @TheRickWilson @TomArnold @girlsreallyrule @billmaher @RepSwalwell @FrankFigliuzzi1 @tedlieu @Kokomothegreat @jordanklepper @juliehdavis @shearm @McFaul pic.twitter.com/NbCG6Fz6V6 —…
Not as good as the #LavScam or #Elxn43 days
…but it amuses me it still irritates the trolls.
Using Your Lived Experience to Influence Health Research
I am a parent partner in disability health research. Caregiver partners in research use their lived experience to influence WHAT is researched and HOW it’s researched. We have the opportunity…
It’s Time We Faced Reality. FPTP is Failing Us.
Boris Johnson is the prime minister of the United Kingdom and Brits are just realizing their democracy has been pistol-whipped by a thoroughly dysfunctional electoral system – First Past The…
She should also be named Prime Minister of Canada (updated)
Great news. And deserved. UPDATE: And look at what just happened here.
Gideon Levy on ‘One State: The Future’ at Palestine Expo 2019
Israeli author and journalist Gideon Levy. Photo by Israel Nation News. Gideon Levy is a Haaretz columnist and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board. Levy joined Haaretz in 1982,…
Hope Lies in the Streets
Protesters at an Extinction Rebellion rally in London. Photo bu Julian Meehan (Flickr). Global finance capital has seized control of the economies of most nation-states. The citizens watch, helplessly, as…
American Dharma does the devil’s work too well
American Dharma Errol Morris Utopia, 2019 Perhaps American Dharma, the new feature-length interview between filmmaker Errol Morris and right-wing propagandist Stephen Bannon, should never have been made. Across the world,…
A Union in the Kitchen will Improve Your Life
Thanks to the efforts of billionaires, and other corrupt individuals, union workers have been portrayed as lazy and inept. If anything, the opposite is true. Workers in unions have different…
Nothing Solved, Nothing Gained
Boris Johnson has been elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. But, Tom Walkom writes, nothing has changed: It seems the real debate over Brexit has just begun. In fact,…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Linsey McGoey discusses the historical case for abolishing billionaires rooted in Adam Smith’s critique of plutocracy: Smith was scathingly critical of the wealthy’s…
Bad government begets bad opposition.
They seem to go hand in hand. The more you loath the government of the day, the more you can loath their opposition. You have to admit that the Ontario…
Borrowed Money and Borrowed Time #nlpoli
Tom Osborne was in Ottawa on Tuesday with his fellow finance ministers trying to squeeze some extra cash out of the federal government. The wealthiest provinces in Canada – Alberta,…
No more pipelines? Another day, another UCP talking point exposed as codswallop
Another day, another Alberta Government talking point exposed as codswallop. Yesterday, we compared and contrasted what the United Conservative Party Government used to say about the former NDP government’s carbon…
Ecofascism – A New Threat
Content Warning: Some of the images in this article may be distressing or triggering. Please take care with this material. Note: This is intended to be a primer of sorts…
What Jason Kenney and the UCP fear most
When I started Canadian Trends 8 years ago I created a set of personal rules to govern myself and my work. These rules also extend to my Twitter. These rules…