In The Good News Category
At her home in Hertfordshire, England, Mary Crabb displays the 1941 photo featuring her as a baby, surrounded by the Canadian soldiers who saved her life. Mary Crabb was sitting…
2019
Marcus Gee and others like him tolerate hate speech because they will never face the violent consequences of it
I was pleased to see two white supremacist pieces of shit convicted of promoting hatred of women and Jews this week. Kudos to Warren Kinsella and Lisa Kirbie who helped…
The Absurd Trial of John McCallum
It was like the trial scene in Alice of Wonderland. With Andrew Scheer as the Red Queen, poor old John McCallum in the prisoner's box, and the Con media as…
John McCallum is no diplomat.
Canada’s ambassador to China never was a diplomat. He is a politician. Maybe he has always been too much of a neoliberal to my taste but he finally did what…
Liberal MP Jennifer O’Connell keeps the pot boiling under Jason Kenney and his questionable housing expense claims
Just when you thought it was about to fade away over the coming weekend, the saga of Jason Kenney’s dubious House of Commons housing expense claims got a new lease…
New column day
Here, on how the new Canada Food Guide points the way toward a far healthier food system – but falls far short of actually propelling us toward the end goal.…
James Sears and LeRoy St. Germaine of Racist Rag Your Ward News Convicted
I’m actually out of town but I figured that this was news worth publishing: BREAKING: James Sears, editor of neo-Nazi paper Your Ward News, found guilty of hate crimes against…
The Next Front in the New Cold War? Canada’s Back Yard.
Vlad Putin is shrewd when it comes to exploiting weakness or carelessness in others. When he looks to the Arctic, that’s exactly what he sees. The climate crisis is intensifying…
The Barents Flipping Point
It’s not so much a tipping point as a flipping point. The Barents Sea, a component of the Arctic Ocean much like the Beaufort Sea or the Chukchi Sea, is…
Be Careful What You Wish For, Rachel
With an election looming and Jason Kenney breathing down her neck, Rachel Notley is spending millions of dollars, 23 million, her government doesn’t have to demonize British Columbia as the…
Andrew Scheer and the Mad Max Nightmare
You can see the fear in Andrew Scheer's eyes. His creepy smile has gone, and with every passing day he seems more and more desperate.And while his regular porno propaganda…
The Wonderful Humbling of Donald Trump
The U.S. government shutdown has now being going on for more than a month, with no end in sight.Almost a million government workers are struggling to make ends meet, with…
Jan. 24. Don’t kid yourself.
This IS world war three._________________________________________________________________ The U.S. has a long history of overthrowing governments all over the world, and installing American-controlled puppets. It happened in Iran back in 1948 when…
The Meritocracy Myth
A new report from the London School of Economics shows how the Right has fostered the myth of meritocracy to render the have-nots complacent to inequality. The report, “Divided societies…
What is science? It’s not this stuff.
Recently in a Facebook post, two of us were squabbling in typical Facebook-fashion over “alternative medicine” and related treatments (many of which came into the discussion as links to pseudoscience…
An Immigrant? Nope…
Florida man charged with premeditated murder after bank shooting left 5 women dead
Yes, Doug Ford, we know your friends like you, but…
The CFIB does not care about the interests of the average Ontarian.
A Tale of Two Austerities
Photo by William Murphy The greatly intensified austerity that has been imposed in the UK since 2010 has been looked to with considerable approval by right wing imitators. Among countries…