Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Anand Giridharadas writes that with Bernie Sanders in position to win the Democratic nomination for president, the U.S.’ election will answer the question…
February 2020
Who Is Mistreating Whom?
Now that Teck has withdrawn its application for an oilsands mine in northern Alberta, Jason Kenney will be spitting fire and brimestone, blaming Ottawa for what he sees as a…
Teck Halts Work on Tarsands Proposal
Canada is waking up to the reality of the climate crisis, those ringing the alarms includes a diverse group from the Wet’suwet’en Nation to Greenpeace. Now a large fossil fuel…
It’s Barnum and Bailey Time.
It’s pandemic, it’s frightening, it’s Barnum and Bailey Time. The circus has come to rescue politics from crushing boredom. In America, in Canada and around the world, the clowns, the…
On the need for politics #nlpoli
Politics the art of pursuing common interests through …active listening, advocacy, public persuasion, compromise and negotiation. Bob Rae William Ford Coaker,the father of the Commission The people from Newfoundland and…
WePivot Is Back!
It’s been a healthy hiatus. Over 3 years ago, after over 1,000 blog pieces since just after 9/11, I evolved Politics, Re-Spun into WePivot.net. I wrote about why. A couple…
Is the Conservative Opposition a national government in waiting or a separatist bloc? Andrew Scheer must decide
Who said, “At time of global economic instability, Canada’s government must stand unequivocally for keeping the country together”? I won’t tease you. It was Stephen Harper, on Dec. 3, 2008.…
Teck Resources Walks on Frontier Mine
Even the oil patch is crying “uncle” on the Athabasca Tar Sands. Teck Resources has pulled its application to develop a mammoth open pit bitumen mine, the Frontier mine project.…
Episode 49: Radical Sabbatical. Climate justice and Alberta politics with Chris Gusen
Is Alberta ready to face the challenges of climate change? Climate activist and communicator Chris Gusen joins Dave Cournoyer to discuss Alberta politics, climate justice, and a Green New Deal…
In Praise of Protest
One thing the Wet’suet’en protests have done is to make people take a side. That can be quite instructive as people, perhaps uncomfortable with their choice, go to some lengths…
Papa Troll
This guy was almost PM. Stockwell Day wasn't enough of a scare to dissuade Con voters from wasting a decade with Harper. What fresh hell awaits following Scheer?#cdnpoli https://t.co/JMembtaJG6 —…
Neither Cure nor Prevention, but Sheer Punishment
A protester against Eurovision 2019 being held in Israel. Photo by Corinna Kern/Reuters. Anti-Semitism is a grave matter; its mere utterance conjures unspeakable horrors – atrocities typically tied to the…
Just Sayin, Justin
Conservatives and their Liberal alter-egos like to point out that more than half of the Canadian public don’t approve of the Wet’suwet’en resistance. A recent poll, however, suggests about 39…
Juan Guaidó left out in the cold at Gatineau Lima Group meeting
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne speaks during the closing news conference at the Lima Group Ministerial meetings in Gatineau, February 20. Photo by Adrian Wyld. For the first time…
Neoliberalism’s Sharp Elbows
In 2004, American intellectual, Henry Giroux, wrote “The Terror of Neoliberalism: Authoritarianism and the Eclipse of Democracy.” The following review from Amazon seems to capture the gist of Giroux’ warning:…
A Cool Tool For Balancing Caregiving With…LIFE
There is so much talk about self-care in the online caregiving discourse that it’s just plain exhausting. What we need is a simple and realistic way to think about how…
What is your power and authority to rule?
https://tonyseed.wordpress.com/2020/02/18/for-your-information-how-the-canadian-government-imposed-the-band-council-system-on-indigenous-nations/ In 1890, the people of Kahnawake protested, pointing out the Canadian government’s lack of jurisdiction and its hypocrisy in opposing “hereditary” chiefs: ”Every nation throughout the world retains their…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Eric Holthaus calls out any attempt by the uber-wealthy to paper over their profits from climate destruction with “philanthropic” donations. And David…
Dangerous Territory
The anger which overtook the United States four years ago is drifting north. Susan Delacourt writes: Large-scale rail shutdowns, Indigenous blockades, a new flutter of Western separatism from elected MPs…