Humpty Trumpty (The Story of Sir TanTrumpALot)
Humpty Trumpty … America has failed the world.
2019
Pushing back on Canada’s war on drug users
Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction Travis Lupick Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017 Every night that Overdose Prevention Ottawa ran its illegal…
Capitalism: A Crime Story
Capitalism: A Crime Story Harry Glasbeek Between The Lines, 2018 Harry Glasbeek is a real oddity — a lawyer and professor of corporate law who specializes in exposing the way…
David Camfield’s We Can Do Better
We Can Do Better: Ideas for Changing Society David Camfield Fernwood, 2017 Around the world, people are increasingly looking beyond mainstream politics to combat right-wing populism, growing wealth inequality, and…
Wishful Thinking? The World Economic Forum’s Cure for What Ail’s Humanity, Globalization 4.0
Acknowledging that the globalization associated with the neoliberal era led to enormous damage to the masses, the World Economic Forum will be launching the cure in Davos, Switzerland this month…
What is Screen Ethics?
Below is an excerpt from my manuscript Buying In to Doing Good: Documentary Politics and Curatorial Ethics at the Hot Docs Film Festival , to be published by McGill-Queen’s University…
Things We Don’t Know
One of the things I have always used this blog for is to bring to readers’ notice things they might be unaware of. For example, although most of us know…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Erlend Sandoy and Saskia Kerkvliet offer a graphic explainer of the causes and costs of high-end tax avoidance. And Eric Rankin reports on…
Federal political leaders, reviewed
So: A Liberal leader who demotes/disrespects competent, respected women who are indigenous or handled important indigenous files, likely because they threaten his celebrity. A Conservative leader who has a taxpayer-subsidized…
On Dr. Jordan Peterson: The True And Real Story
He's a con artist. He's got a book, he's got a speaking tour, and when's he's not flogging the book he's flogging his daughter's all meat diet to get his…
140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of January 14, 2019
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 14, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: Unfair stereotypes of domestic assault victims led to conviction for B.C. woman,…
This cabinet shuffle is a joke
A Canadian being sentenced to death by China is more important. But this is astonishing. Demoting the most competent indigenous cabinet minister in Canadian history: that’s the legacy of this…
On Dr. Jordan Peterson: The True And Real Story
He’s a con artist. He’s got a book, he’s got a speaking tour, and when’s he’s not flogging the book he’s flogging his daughter’s all meat diet to get his…
Let’s Admit Intellectual Property is Nonsense
Depending on your worldview Intellectual Property (IP) is either necessary or holds us back in terms of cultural (and economic ) development. IP applies to more than what you may…
Mr. Trump as a savant?
The other day, reading something from a forgettable writer, I started out laughing at the presentation of U.S. president Donald Trump as a savant. Please understand that a savant is…
Maximum sadness
Man, this sucks. Punk rock’s print bible, gone.
The Role Hereditary Chiefs are Playing in the Pipeline Protests out West
Anyone paying attention to national politics in Canada islikely to have heard about a new round of protests in BritishColumbia around the pipeline being built there. Now undernormal circumstances a…
Enough already! It’s time for the NDP to implement the Bighorn park plan immediately
Were provincial officials taking part in town hall meetings on the Alberta Government’s plan to create a park in west central Alberta’s Bighorn Country really harassed and threatened by all-terrain-vehicle…
Yellow Vest Reactionaries Still Posting Their Murder Fantasies To Main Group
First, it looks perhaps like Mr. Malenfant has some explaining to do: The Yellow Vest reactionaries are being called out for the threats to murder Trudeau (as well as members…
Stub History
I’ve been getting rid of some accumulated paper. I found a receipt for a full year of university tuition in 1978-79: $740. I also found a paystub for my minimum…