Primitive vs Civilized Societies
As someone born in 1950 and raised and educated in a Eurocentric culture I learned early that civilized societies are intellectually, socially, and technologically superior to primitive societies. This despite…
2019
Some Hard Take-Aways for Greens from Last Night’s Election in Price Edward Island
Greens across the nation woke up this morning to welcome news that the PEI Green Party, under able leader Peter Bevan-Baker, surged at the polls on Tuesday evening, electing a…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Tom Parkin writes about the need for workers to be at the centre of a Green New Deal for Canada: Those determined to…
The UN Cares About Your Local Housing Crisis
Without a doubt a global housing crisis is hurting all of us. In the majority world basic housing needs aren’t being met while in the richer minority world owning a…
The Morning After: PEI Election Edition
Yesterdays election on Prince Edward Island ended up delivering on the drama that many of us expected, even if the result wasn’t what many had anticipated. The result of the…
The Rich Are Getting Worried
Dominic Rushe writes in The Guardian that the wealthy are worried. Ray Dalio is the latest billionaire to air his unease: Dalio, founder of Bridgewater, the world’s biggest hedge fund,…
You are judged by the company you keep
I first discovered Progressive Bloggers during visits to Daily Kos during George W Bush’s first term. I noticed these interesting comments with a tag line referencing Prog Blogs as a…
LawFact of the Day: Family Law
Here is your daily LawFact from Wise Law for Wednesday April 24, 2019. Today we are talking about Family Law. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Wise…
What a false accusation of antisemitism from Winnipeg’s mayor reminds us about political power
Photo by Festival of Faiths On Tuesday, Winnipeg mayor Brian Bowman delivered a press conference calling for Linda Sarsour, a prominent Palestinian rights activist and New York-based co-chair of the…
PEI politics
I was at the Raptors game last night when this result came in. It was a shocker. Three reasons. Once again, plenty of pollsters missed out on a sizeable Conservative…
RCMP invasion of Wet’suwet’en Nation territory breaches Canada’s ‘rule of law’
While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes flowery public speeches about respecting the rights of Indigenous peoples and reassures the international community that there is no relationship more important that the…
Are health care administrative expenses out of control in Ontario?
The Progressive Conservative government has justified its health restructuring plans with the claim that administrative expenses are much higher in Ontario than in Canada. When introducing the reforms, health minister…
#LavScam #LawScam #LibScam: thanks for your donation
Jody Wilson-Raybould worked to clean up the legal system. Justin Trudeau and his PMO cabal work to dirty it. Have these guys learned nothing from Lavscam? Have they not considered…
Trouble In The Principal’s Office
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Don’t send a cop to do a marketing job.
There are sins of commission as well as omission that can be laid on prime minister Justin Trudeau. The silliest was his choice of cannabis tsar. The very fact that…
A Long and Very Scary List
Antonia Zerbisias is keeping a list. She’s counting the things that Doug Ford is doing to make the lives of “the people” more miserable: Here’s the list thus far. Thanks…
Irked by news site’s critical reports, Jason Kenney hints at retaliation as PressProgress fires back
Apparently the stenographic efforts of Postmedia’s Alberta newspapers as a virtual wing of the United Conservative Party campaign team were not enough for the victorious Jason Kenney, Alberta’s premier designate.…
The Monstrous Hidden Homophobia of Andrew Scheer
Ever since he became the leader of the Cons, Andrew Scheer has been very careful to conceal his extreme religious views.He won the leadership with the support of social conservatives,…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cozy cats.
Greens Form Opposition in PEI
For the first time in a long while Prince Edward Island will have a minority government. The Progressive Conservatives dispatched the Liberals to third place. The Tories are expected to…