The Trudeau Formula: Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent Martin Lukacs Black Rose Books, 2019 Slick, brand-driven star power legitimizes the neoliberal status quo, obscuring growing inequalities as…
Photo by Rebecca Zandbergen/CBC On 21 August 2019, Ellen Gabriel and other Kanien’kéha:ka (Mohawk) of Kanehsatà:ke held a press conference in the Pines, the site of the so-called “Oka Crisis”…
City-wide extra leaf collection turns your fallen leaves into nutrient rich compost October 4 2019 – Vancouver trees are now shedding their leaves in preparation for winter. We be-leaf it’s…
Andrew Scheer visits rural dairy farmers in La Baie, Quebec. Photo from Twitter. During the televised debates last week Andrew Scheer and Justin Trudeau promised tax cuts that would cost…
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/ This has not been an exciting election for Canada. The best news (which isn’t great) is that the Liberals are best positioned to form a minority government – probably…
With just over a week to go before the (Read more…) NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has made a rookie mistake and reduced his party to the tail trying to wag…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Linda McQuaig writes about the myth that we have no choice but to pursue privatization – and notes that electric vehicle production represents…
No, not Amazon. Not Microsoft. Long before either of them became household names there was another, Boeing. Boeing a legendary maker of truly leading edge airplanes – passenger liners, bombers,…
A strange thing happened this week: an anonymous person tried to comment on this blog, writing “Dear Mary; Find a room in the glass house that you like to live…
Chantal Hebert writes that a minority government looks more and more likely — largely because of the resurgence of the Bloc Quebecois: From a Quebec perspective, the argument that the…
Living in central Ontario, we see the changing of color in the leaves as Thanksgiving and Yom Kippur are celebrated. I have often thought that Christians and Jews should share…
Credit where credit is due, the Kenney Government’s new Employee Labour Relations Support Program does answer questions from union members who write in and ask them. Leastways, the nascent Bust-Your-Union…
A red alert post from Paul Willcocks: I’ve covered a dozen elections, but this one feels menacingly different. [Editor’s note: With the 2019 Canadian federal election in high gear, The…
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton during the week ended Oct. 6, 2019. The lists are compiled by Audreys Books and…
Ten days to go and I expect we will soon start to see a certain degree of panic among Canadian pundits, as they realize their unrelenting negativity toward Trudeau and…
A Tyee newsletter about the Canadian federal election. Sort of. I’ve covered a dozen elections, but this one feels menacingly different. [Editor’s note: With the 2019 Canadian federal election in…
Snakehips feat. Anna of the North – Summer Fade
There it is, front page of Britain’s Daily Mail. The headline says it all: “College professor named Justin Trudeau sues the University of North Texas for discrimination after being investigated…
This afternoon I had the chance to join Bill Carroll on “The Bill Carroll Show” with Jason Lietaer and Gabriela Gonzales. We talked about the release of the NDP and…
Fascinating NYT article about PewDiePie, whom I had heard about only because my son knew about him and about the whole new Inner YouTube culture that he represents, sort of.…
