If You Can’t Believe the World Is Massively Overcrowded
Get an eyeful of this: These are climbers queuing to summit the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest. Hundreds of climbers hoping to make it to the summit of the world’s…
2019
Ring of Fire Bungling Jeopardizes Green Economic Prosperity for Northern Communities
Buried beneath the feet of Northern Ontarians are the materials that will drive the green economy. Nickel, copper, cobalt and lithium are needed in abundance for batteries that will store…
Another Bad Day for Justin
It wasn’t the first time Trudeau’s security officers have thrown a woman to the ground but, this time, it was a 74-year old granny, part of a group of Trans-Mountain…
Labour a Key Partner in a Canadian Green New Deal
“Migrants” by Mary Tolstova In a month where unprecedented floods have ravaged many Canadian communities, the immediate perils of climate change have never been more evident. At the same time,…
Noteworthy Companies from Collision Conference
21 May 2019; Chelsea F. Briganti, left, CEO, LOLIWARE, Dianna Cohen, centre,rnCEO, Plastic Pollution Coalition, and Catherine Abreu, Executive Director, Climate Action Network Canada, on planet : tech Stage during…
The Kindest Cut Of All?
Given the butcher’s blade Doug Ford and his trained seals are taking to crucial services and programs in Ontario, perhaps the following best reflects the widespread disenchantment people are expressing…
A Week in the Life of the Ford Conservatives
As we have been noting here, the Ford Conservatives have been dealing with a lot of blowback from decisions that they have made. We’ve been seeing more and more manifestations…
What happened to Prisoner Justice Day?
What happened to Prisoner Justice Day? is a podcast mini series about the history of prisons in canada focusing on differences in the prison system in the 1960s-1980s versus today.…
A Moment That Sticks in the Mind
Politics can be an amazingly fickle thing and in our history as a country, we’ve seen moments happen that have changed the course of campaigns in ways that we wouldn’t…
Kuwasi Balagoon A Soldier’s Story: Revolutionary Writings by a New Afrikan Anarchist
available from leftwingbooks.net Kuwasi Balagoon was a participant in the Black Liberation struggle from the 1960s until his death in prison in 1986. A member of the Black Panther Party…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – The Star’s editorial board rightly criticizes Doug Ford for his propensity to announce massive cuts first, then begrudgingly acknowledge their unconscionable consequences…
Kuwasi Balagoon Video Interview
Many years ago, when working on what was originally envisaged as a pamphlet, a short collection of writings by Kuwasi Balagoon, i was told of a television interview with Balagoon,…
At Each Other’s Throats
American politics have always been partisan, Glen Pearson writes. But Canadian politics used to be different: Americans have always remained divided along partisan lines, while the Canadian context has been…
Choosing Chuckles for Canadians?
Of all the ridiculous strategies for the coming federal election! Why should the liberals attack the conservatives when their real opposition in the October election is themselves? To waste time…
Path of destruction
I’ve argued on this website that BC Hydro’s ratepayers are victims of corporate inertia. The company continues to do what it properly did for its first 45 years. Unfortunately, now…
Crib notes: Understanding yesterday’s United Conservative Party Throne Speech
As the documents that lay out the government’s policy agenda for the next couple of years, Throne Speeches are by nature tendentious. In the service of making what is a…
The Ford-Tory fight: is it a good idea?
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The Ghastly Return of Jody Wilson-Raybould
I thought we had seen the last of her for a long long time. I thought she had been swallowed up by the obscurity she so richly deserves.I thought she…
Charter of Shites
@JustinTrudeau’s “digital charter:”• doesn’t apply to #LPC • should’ve been done at start of mandate, not end• won’t come into effect until after election• does zero to address cyber-hate •…
Christiana Figueres: The Climate Risk Reward Ratio has Changed
The architect of the Paris Agreement, Christiana Figueres, is optimistic about the future of the planet and she sees the technology sector key in moving our economy to a carbon…