Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Jan. 20, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2019/01/los-angeles-teachers-win-victory-against-school-privatization For many years, the quality of American public schools has been going down. But that may now be turning a corner.Now, if we could only improve the quality of…
Here’s Greta Thunberg, 16, at Davos 2019, the World Economic Forum: At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable…
Integrity and putting interests of the public and the public service above personal interest seem to have been forgotten. Yet, it was not only James, Lenz and Speakers Linda Reid…
Canada’s ambassador to China, John McCallum, is out. Justin Trudeau asked for and received McCallum’s resignation last night. The Liberal stalwart succumbed to a bout of foot in mouth disease…
Donald Trump rode one signature phrase straight into the White House – “Make America Great Again.” The TV show hustler convinced the Gullibillies, his base, that he was an unparalleled…
The painting is of Pope Alexander VI (born Rodrigo de Borja, into the infamous/famous Borgia family) adoring the Christ Child, while Mary looks on. Pietro Facettio was the artist, who…
It’s called AGW or anthropogenic global warming. It’s warming that is anthropogenic, i.e. man-made, and it’s global, just as humans now populate just about every corner of the Earth. Nobody…
Donald Trump remember what happened yesterday for a long long time, maybe even forever. For by the time the day was over, he must have felt he was trapped in…
He's been waiting like a spider waits for a fly, to make the border issue the centrepiece of his election campaign.So he can appeal to the lowest instincts of Canadians…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Ploy Achakulwisat writes about the health emergencies emanating from an ongoing climate breakdown. And Andy Kroll points out that even in the U.S.,…
Born in Chicago in 1901, my mother never did entirely lose the biases of her upbringing. She was something of a traffic hazard the way she drove her walker in…
John Himpe was a radio and blogging wizard. Now he’s gone, at a young 38 years of age. Here’s his account of first getting on the Internet: Because there were…
You know, it I once thought that making fun of the Aryan Guard/Blood & Honour name change as well as the rather lengthy and ostentatious Steven Blah Blah Myatt was…
College – A Real Hero
The Petro-Pimps of Parliament Hill, pose as stewards of the environment but they sure like to tell a lot of lies. Trudeau says he’s fighting climate change but then sweeps…
It's not hard to imagine how Donald Trump must be feeling like today. It couldn't be easier.All you have to do is read this hysterical tweet: This is what he…
Yesterday it was reported that global warming is transforming the Barents Sea from an Arctic sea into an Atlantic sea. Now a paper published by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment…
After making bail, longtime Trump confidante, Roger Stone, dismissed the charges against him as “politically motivated.” Hard to argue with that. The crimes for which he now stands charged were…
It appears that there was a lot of blowback to this plan over the Christmas holidays to Conservative MPP’s. Good – it was a terrible idea: The Ford government is…
