I’m busier than that proverbial one-armed paperhanger right now, so it’s possible that production of posts on this blog is going to fall for the next couple of weeks from…
You don’t hire him again. You suspend him. From CNN: A high school teacher has been placed on administrative leave in California after he wore blackface to school on Halloween,…
“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.” Even with contribution limits, generous as they are, government remains biased toward serving interests…
It happens to me every fall. The leaves change colour and fall, the trees take on an ominous look, and once again I am filled with an existential dread that…
Now that we have entered into November and with a couple of weeks before the Liberals name their new cabinet, the parties are starting to put the pieces back together.…
Black Death Comes to The City I was futzing about again with marks becoming an image. Over a few days the scribbles turned into this. Today the article below showed…
The Toronto Star has many excellent stories in today’s paper about lead in water pipes. It’s a must-read. Link to their web site here.
“If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.” – Mark Twain In its origin, democracy was participatory. The ancient Greeks defined democracy (dēmokratía) as “rule of the…
available from leftwingbooks.net Author: V.I. Lenin Format: Paperback Size: 191 pages ISBN: 978-1-894946-94-0 Publisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing 2019 Price: $17.55 (CAD) or $13.00 (USD) This collection of texts by V.I. Lenin…
November 10th, 11am-4pm Horticulture Building at Lansdowne Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/493858394771176/ Kersplebedeb and PM Press will be tabling at the 6th Annual Feminist Fair, happening Sunday November 10th at the Horticulture Building…
Gratuit – Free! La plus grande foire annuelle bilingue de petits éditeurs en Amérique du Nord est de retour ! The largest bilingual small press fair in North America is…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 4, 2019 from Wise Law on Twitter: US Justice Department appeals order to turn over Mueller grand jury materials…
The large anti-government protests in Chile have led to more than 18 deaths. Photo by Getty. Chile has been held up for decades as South America’s clearest example of the…
I’ve just written a ‘top 10’ overview of the recent Alberta budget. Points raised in the post include the following: -The budget lays out a four-year strategy of spending cuts,…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Michael Spence discusses how a wealth tax can work, while noting that the worst possible response to growing inequality is to refuse to…
North American ‘leaders’, take heed. Thanks to Alex Himelfarb for retweeting this: Two inspiring minutes https://t.co/9JclWqc5Eu — alex himelfarb (@alexhimelfarb) November 4, 2019 Recommend this Post
Jason Kenney is up in arms. Liberal energy policies are why Encana has headed south, he says. But, Alan Freeman writes, you could have seen this coming long ago: Encana…
Protesters rip an electoral poster of president Jovenel Moïse during a demonstration in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on November 6, 2015. Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/Reuters. In recent months, Haitians have demonstrated…
The Quebec National Assembly seems to be constantly against immigration. Combined with the ill-disguised bigotry behind the Bill 21 restrictions on the wearing of religious symbols, it is sending a…
With inequality increasing throughout the world she jurisdictions are fighting back by raising the minimum wage. Business owners must pay employees at least the minimum wage set by the government,…
