Seattle and the Socialist Surge in the U.S.
Photo by Clay Showalter Kshama Sawant’s second re-election battle is on track to be the most expensive, hard-fought city council race in Seattle’s history. The race pits the richest man…
2019
Elizabeth May: Vote as if your life depends on it
Winnipeg, Aug. 15, 2019: “We need people to vote as if their life depended on it, because it just might.” — Elizabeth May. Photo: Paul S. Graham Elizabeth May came…
Marc Lemire Out in Hamilton
Former neo-Nazi hate group leader Marc Lemire is no longer working for Hamilton by mutual agreement. We provided evidence to investigators that he continued to host hate materials on his…
Provincial Campaigning in the 204
This week another political event started, with a provincial election in the province of Manitoba. Despite the fact that under Manitoba’s fixed date election law the next election wasn’t supposed…
There is reason to fear for the safety of every Kashmiri in India
An Indian army soldier patrols on a bridge during restrictions in Jammu on 5 August 2019 (Reuters) Earlier today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP government has rushed through…
A Thousand Words ….
H/tTheoMoudakis Because the political reactions from the right and the left are so tiresomely predictable, I thought I would offer a few examples from one of the so-called progressive groups…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Richard Cannings comments on the need for governments to collect a fair share of revenue from wealthy individuals and corporations. And Erin Weir…
The Final Verdict
The Ethics Commissioner’s report is out. And, Tom Walkom writes, in the end, it won’t make much difference: On the one hand are those who agree with Wilson-Raybould that the…
Seven Shades of Green
I’m trying to sort out all the solutions to the current and ongoing climate catastrophe. This is all getting very complicated, and I’m not sure I completely have my head…
Friday Odds and Ends
With the big news around LavScam from earlier this week it’s turned out to be a much more eventful week in political Ottawa than most of us were expecting. It’s…
Trudeau’s #LavScam solution
…but it’s the one thing he’ll never do.
Waiting for Doug Ford.
C’mon Dougie, Let’s see some action here in Ontario. You talked the talk. You walked the walk. Now, when do we see some action? A populist makes promises and people…
#LavScam latest: like I always say – not all can be bought, but too many can be rented
One of my @UCalgaryLaw students objected when I said that @JustinTrudeau’s cabal wouldn’t have suggested retaining a @SCC_eng judge without knowing their opinion first. He said that impugns our legal…
Kenney Conservatives find the perfect policy panel to push the working poor back to penury
If pushing the working poor back into penury is your policy objective, the United Conservative Party led by Premier Jason Kenney has found the right collection of ringers to stack…
Stony Hill-Stumps Speak For Themsleves
Icil Dobell Much has been said by both the Municipality and Where Do We Stand (WDWS) about the number of live trees taken to harvest the scattered blowdown on…
Not All Cowichan Citizens Up In Arms Over North Cowichan Forest Practices
Stoney Hill blow-down harvest was very responsible The actual logging sites have been portrayed as large clear-cuts and that just is not a fact. Stoney Hill blow-down harvest was very…
August 15: a confused day.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-cucinelli-statue-of-liberty-verse-europe-immigrants-1.5246852 And the evangelical churches that support Trump will also support this racist policy.__________________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/14/trudeau-broke-ethics-law-in-snc-lavalin-case-watchdog-rules https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/ethics-report-1.5247595 And Conservatives would never, ever break the ethics law. No. Well, not unless they could…
The Brits (Wisely) Dodge a Bullet
It had John Bolton’s fingerprints all over it and, if the Brits had fallen for it, they would have been America’s accomplices in its cold war with Iran. It was…
Shawnigan Lake residents may take legal direction to protect their property values from the ‘Dirty Dirt’ fiasco
Shawnigan Lake residents may take a new legal direction to protect their property values from sadly plummeting if chemical pollution further fouls Shawnigan Lake. During a lively town-hall meeting Aug.…