WEXIT: Assessing the Costs
Andrew Scheer, Jason Kenney, Scott Moe: Canada’s Three Wexiteers, all clamouring for something that they don’t own.
2019
The New Welfare Bums #nlpoli #cdnpoli #ableg
Lunacy is always easier to spot in other people. There is a Liberal conspiracy to rob Alberta of its precious fluids. People in Newfoundland and Labrador got a taste of…
‘Wexit’ isn’t likely, but that doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous
“Wexit” is dangerous, but not because it’s ever likely to come to pass. The economic case for Prairie separatism is so obviously lame — because of what’s happened to the…
Episode 43: The UCP’s pick-a-fight budget
David Climenhaga from AlbertaPolitics.ca joins Dave and Adam on this episode of the Daveberta Podcast to discuss the cuts in Alberta’s provincial budget and the United Conservative Party’s growing list…
Gay kids, trans kids, are made in God’s likeness
…how could they not be? Read Rosie, who is at her passionate best, here. Oh, and she quotes what the Pope and the relevant Ontario minister have to say. Heed…
Letter to the Edmonton Journal, Friday, November 2, 2019 (In Response to the October 24 Budget)
We have just one generation left in which to convert the Alberta Advantage (in non-renewable resource revenue) into a New Advantage built upon renewable and sustainable energy and human resources.…
Letter to the Edmonton Journal, Friday, November 2, 2019 (In Response to the October 24 Budget)
We have just one generation left in which to convert the Alberta Advantage (in non-renewable resource revenue) into a New Advantage built upon renewable and sustainable energy and human resources.…
The Far-Right and the Power of Uncritical Thinking
The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them … To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact…
Letter to the Edmonton Journal, Friday, November 2, 2019 (In Response to the October 24 Budget)
We have just one generation left in which to convert the Alberta Advantage (in non-renewable resource revenue) into a New Advantage built upon renewable and sustainable energy and human resources.…
Good start.
Maybe it’ll even work. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is preparing to meet with opposition leaders as the Liberals start to map out how they will govern in a minority Parliament…
The Anti-Alberta Energy Inquiry (Thank God for Lawyers)
In his book On Tyranny historian Timothy Snyder sets out twenty lessons from the 20th century to help democracies resist the “the usurpation of power by a single individual or…
Paul Gorski on Education and Inequity
For the first time in 28 years of teaching, I approve of the new guru being brought to the masses from on high. Immediately, from just the first few seconds…
what i’m reading: the birth of the pill by jonathan eig
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan Eig was a fascinating and very readable look at how oral contraceptives — otherwise…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Edgardo Sepulveda writes about Chile’s popular revolt against austerity and inequality – while at the same time pointing out how Canada is…
Keeping Our Balance
The truly witty political put down is a lost art form. Robin Sears writes: “We have witnessed an astonishing decline in political wit in recent years. It has been replaced…
“Our culture is dying because we have no capacity for forgiveness or discussion.”
Cancel culture, so-called, interests me. Two reasons. First reason: Barack Obama decried it recently, and what he said made a lot of sense. Here’s part of what he said: “This…
Is it all about the $$$?
Regular readers, all two or three of you, will know that I have had little to say here at Democracy Under Fire during the recent election period, the manure being…
Great tweets of the day
Boy, people are really getting pissed off these days! Its very entertaining, really: Clocks going back 57 minutes in Alberta after 5% cut by UCP government. #AbLeg https://t.co/ABqMWF6yg5 — Alan…
Aren’t you forgetting something?
In the Star Phoenix, Doug Cuthand talks sense about Western separatism: Kenny and Moe remind me of the two cartoon dogs, Spike and Chester. Remember them? Spike was a mean…
Reality check: Scheer, Conservatives and homophobia
Some Conservatives want Andrew Scheer out. Fine. It’s their party, and they can have a fight if they want to. Whatever. But some of the Scheer critics are saying they…