Meanwhile, In Arizona
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July 2020
On lunatic fringes
Let’s take a moment to acknowledge a rare opportunity to agree with the messaging of the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation: any plan to hand out more giveaways to the corporate sector…
How Settler Colonial States Use Incarceration as a Tool of Dehumanization During the COVID Crisis
The plight of Palestinian prisoners in Israel assumes even greater significance amid the looming global health crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo from Peoples Dispatch. Andrea Circle Bear was…
On national interests
PressProgress highlights how Scott Moe and the Saskatchewan Party are continuing to rely heavily on corporate donations from outside the province. But it’s worth noting how people across Canada who…
The Virus is Bad Enough. The Failure of Political Leadership is Even Worse.
The director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, seems to be taking aim directly at authoritarian leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro for their bungling of…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Don Pittis writes about the emptiness of any discussion of energy options which doesn’t account for the importance of averting a climate breakdown.…
My latest: Conservatives circa 2020 = Liberals 2004
Politics is like rock’n’roll: everything has been done before. Take the Conservative Party, for example (please). Their leadership contest is ripping their party apart. The Liberals did it first, however.…
It’ll Be Horrific
It’s become a depressing pattern — one ethics violation after another. Now we must process the WE controversy. Susan Delacourt writes: The newest is Trudeau’s connection to the WE charity,…
Bob Rae is PM’s Pick for UN.
Former Ontario NDP premier and former interim leader of the federal liberals, Bob Rae, finally got his father’s old job as ambassador to the United Nations. It is hard to…
Whatever it is, former PC MLA Dave Rodney apparently has what it takes to be Alberta’s agent general in Houston
There may have been peaks and valleys along the way, but thanks to a hand up from Alberta Premier Jason Kenney this week, it looks as if Dave Rodney has…
Will mandatory masking rules cause outbreaks? We shall see….
A tool is only as good as the person using it, use a tool improperly and you can often make things worse. I’m lucky to live in Northumberland County Ontario,…
B.C. premier applauds call to decriminalize drug possession
It is encouraging to see B.C. Premier John Horgan supporting decriminalizing simple drug possession. It overdue and few politicians have ever stood up and called for what it is,…
See how Canada crushed the curve while the US struggles
CNN’S Paula Newton explains what measures Canadians are taking to flatten the curve as countries continue to battle the coronavirus pandemic. YOUTUBE.COM See how Canada crushed the curve while the…
Alberta Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Separatists
A long time ago in an economy far far away… ALBERTA WARS Episode III Revenge of the Separatists In the strange alternative Star Wars plot Emperor Harper and Darth Kenney…
Neo-Nazi “editor” is back pushing pandemic conspiracy theories
James Sears, the White supremacist “doctor,” is back. More here. This material has been distributed in East Toronto. I’ve forwarded it to the police. Stay tuned.
Citizen Editorial Promoting Long Discredited Alternate Approval Misses The Mark
Citizen Editorial: Alternative approval process is not the enemy By Anonymous Editorial Staff Not everything should go to a referendum. Whenever a controversial decision comes up that is going to…
Canadian foreign policy nationalism must be named and challenged
Canadian Armed Forces personnel serving on the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission listen as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to them in Gao, Mali, Saturday December 22, 2018. It…
On double insecurity
Shorter Bill Morneau on what his government expects of workers generally: Nobody has a right to expect secure, long-term employment. Shorter Bill Morneau on benefits for workers affected by COVID-19,…
New collection proposes bold ideas on systemic urban change
Social Ecology and the Right to the City: Towards Ecological and Democratic Cities Edited by Federico Venturini, Emet Değirmenci and Inés Morales Bernardos Black Rose Books, 2019 This collection, published…
“Science”
“I believe science.” Sure, so did the followers of Ptolemy. But the social consensus was wrong; the majority were wrong – including those who claimed to be scientific in…