Doug Ford and the Carbon Tax Follies
Ever since he came to power Doug Ford has launched one attack after the other on the Liberal government's carbon tax. As only a political thug and a Con clown…
2019
Lessons from Strikes Past
Direct Action Gets the Goods: A Graphic History of the Strike in Canada Graphic History Collective Between the Lines, 2019 Direct Action Gets the Goods is the latest graphic novel…
Scheer Working for International Oil Thugs, Not Canadians
Is Andrew Scheer being a hypocrite when he wants to limit foreign influence for environmental groups while taking meetings with international oil lobbyists? Why, yes he is.
How to be Great in Office
In my time on Parliament Hill, I was blessed to get to see and experience many things. But along with the good and amazing came the rough, stressful, difficult and…
Stuff Happens IV, The Reckoning, week 17: God bless the Bruins
The first 16 weeks of the year have been pretty heavy on the news side, what with elections and mass shootings and bombings and Mueller reports and SNC/Lavalin and resignations…
A Window Into the Hateful Minds of Canada’s Far Right
The Globe & Mail has got its hands on what they were never supposed to see – 150,000 chat room messages exchanged among Canadian rightwing extremists. They come from all…
Okay, This Might Sting a Little Bit. Time for Ottawa to Declare Climate Change a National Emergency.
Imagine the nerve – debating climate change as a national emergency. Britain’s Labour Party intends to force a debate on the issue this week in Parliament. Labour will this week…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Derrick O’Keefe, Robert Hackett and Shane Gunster highlight how the TransMountain pipeline bailout and SNC-Lavalin scandal have cemented Justin Trudeau’s status as…
Things Have Changed
Six months ago, Justin Trudeau was poised to win a second majority government. But, in those six months, the political landscape has changed drastically. Jaimie Watt — a Conservative operative…
McKibben is Banking on Protests
Bill McKibben in The Guardian: “Luckily, we have two relatively new inventions that could prove decisive to solving global warming before it destroys the planet. One is the solar panel,…
Speaking of Doug Ford And His Ilk ….
H/t Patrick Corrigan Paul Rapoport of Ancaster, Ontario, has some advice well worth the consideration of Canada’s Conservative premiers: Keep your Enemies List current. Cut their funding. If you want…
On being liberal in disquieting times.
The word ‘disquieting’ took a while to choose. I have been trying to define the times leading up to the October 21 federal election and it reminds us of flying…
The Future of Democracy (repost)
This previously published bit from 2009 in which Steve May‘s seriesis highlighted perhaps shows how little things have changed in 10 years. Much of his series is focused upon “green”…
No fracking, drilling or digging: it’s the only way to save life on Earth
George Monbiot The Paris climate change agreement is worthless. Politicians can’t possibly honour it unless we stop developing all new fossil fuel reserves @GeorgeMonbiot The industrial landscape across the…
April 27::The scum of the earth rule over us…
a-far-right-party-is-poised-for-a-breakthrough-in-spain-s-elections-for-the-first-time-since-franco-1.5110632 It’s 1930s fascism all over again – but on a far wider scale. The world hasn’t learned a thing from the Second World War. By the way Mussolini and…
Andrew Scheer and the Koch Brothers’ Connection
When Andrew Scheer had that secret meeting with some Big Oil bosses at a fancy hotel just outside Calgary the other day, he must have been praying up a storm…
The UFO Controversy is Back, Thanks To the US Navy
Pilots of the United States Navy are logging unidentified flying objects, UFOs, in American airspace several times a month. Now the navy brass are taking their reports seriously. As first…
The Toronto Sun Channels the NRA
This is straight out of the National Rifle Association playbook. Whenever America suffers another mass shooting (several times weekly of late), the NRA and the gun lobby along with their…
Canada gets cozy with repressive Middle East monarchies
Photo by U.S. Department of State While Justin Trudeau’s government embraces repressive Middle East monarchies, they want us to believe their campaign to oust Venezuela’s government is motivated by support…