May 28: Hitler in Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/facebook-grand-committee-tuesday-1.5152436 When Hitler won power in Germany, he didn’t do it on programs or policies. He did it on hatred,, in this case a hatred of Jews. He invented Jews…
2019
11 Consecutive Days
The United States yesterday tied an all-time record – 11 consecutive days with more than 8 tornadoes per day. Federal government weather forecasters logged preliminary reports of more than 500…
Canada’s Recycling Shame
Canada doesn’t clean up its own junk. It shouldn’t sell it in the first place. Prince Charles opened a tire recycling facility in Assiniboia, SK a couple decades ago. A…
Hypocrisy
Until a 2017 statute deterred corporate contributions to politicians, BC Liberals took in millions from radical activists with deep pockets. These were the foreign shareholders and financiers of large corporations…
The Ides of Late May
Canadian politics over the past decades has come to ride more and more on the leadership of parties. All parties can point to this phenomenon and how it’s affected them.…
Lauren Isringhausen Writes
A young American woman, mother to her own daughter, posted this on FaceBook. It’s dripping with rage and, if you read it, you also might feel her rage.
Andrew Scheer and the Not So Great Economist Leader
Who can forget how Stephen Harper tried to fool us, or brainwash us, into believing that he was a Great Economist Leader.And how it all ended in dismal failure. But…
When Can’t You Call A Nazi a Nazi?
Far right wing extremists may be crawling out of the woodwork all over world including Canada.They may be racist, anti-semitic, anti-gay, and in many cases ultra violent, but please don't…
Fighting Back Against the Con Smear Machine
With less than five months to go before the election, one thing at least seems clear to me. The Cons are not only leading in the polls. They're winning the…
Updating the Oath
Canada is a country that has immigration as a big part of its history. Every year in this country, thousands of people complete their path to citizenship at ceremonies from…
Court Reporters May Be Writing Down Black People’s Testimonies Wrong (repost)
In 2013, Rachel Jeantel, a close friend of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, testified during the trial of George Zimmerman. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Court…
How “Pick-Up Artists” Morphed Into The Alt-Right (repost)
Support our comics! Become a Nib member and get our print magazine full of amazing artists. Read the rest of this post on the original site at How “Pick-Up Artists”…
Free Max Bernier analogy
They liked it over on Twitter. He's the porch light of Canadian politics: he attracts all the bugs and the creepy-crawlies. You end up using less insecticide, because they're all…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Peter Eavis points out how U.S. CEOs are only seeing their exorbitant pay soar even further due to Donald Trump’s tax giveaways.…
Too Good Not To Share
Rabid partisanship being what it is, Twitter user Mike Vlasic offers this perspective: Reminds me of the old "Niagara Falls" sketch, where the words trigger violent outbursts. Similar to the…
The New Mass Media
Chris Hedges writes that there have been three media revolutions in the last thirty-five years: the rise of right-wing radio and Fox-style TV news that abandon the media’s faux objectivity,…
Copp out
In one of my books, The War Room, I have a chapter called the Scandal Handle Manual. Here’s a bit of it: None of us Chrétienites hated Martin or Gomery,…
How to Avoid and Economic Crisis while Addressing the Climate Crisis
The impacts of the climate crisis increase in reach and damage every year with more people feeling the consequences. People have finally woken up to the fact that we need…
Defining a different destiny.
Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott have chosen their political destiny. They have chosen the path to likely political oblivion. There are few politicians who have come back from the Coventry…