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…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Sylvia Fuller and Yue Qian weigh in on how working mothers are bearing the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic (and a policy…
I’m thankful that my city council decided to make masks mandatory starting July 13th, even though I know a few, like the Regional Chair herself, were hoping that people could…
The US Supreme Court has sent Trump into a rage. The court ruled, 7-2, that prosecutors in New York can access Trump’s financial and tax records. As for Congress getting…
The Deloitte office in Toronto, 181 Bay Street. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. New Public Management (NPM) is a term first coined by Oxford University Professor Christopher Hood in a 1991…
In my time volunteering then working in politics, I was very fortunate to get to see and experience many campaigns. Federal, provincial, municipal and leadership, each campaign had its own…
I’m not entirely sure why these things bother me so much, but I suspect it has a lot to do with my hope and expectation that Canadians are better than…
Today I learnt about #punk music. This song is called ‘Anarchy in the UK’ by the Sex Pistols. Anything goes with PUNK! We made this British Flag shirt because I…
Yesterday, the federal government released its “fiscal snapshot.” Ryan Campell writes: It outlines the price tag up to now and describes how costs will evolve over the fiscal year. Headlines…
This pandemic is not over until I get to shoot craps at a local casino. Our backlog of celebrations of lives lost to us is daunting. And I have no…
When you’ve got a slippery political opponent on the ropes with a completely legitimate issue, what’s it profit a New Democrat to stand up in the Legislature and create a…
There’s even a yellow lily too. The white peonies are almost all done. This was in Moose Jaw last week Squash Potatoes last week
Originally published in the Cowichan Citizen Mark Anderson has filed a petition with the court to remove Duncan Mayor Michelle Staples for conflicts of interest. (Lexi Bainas/Citizen) Petition filed…
This has been a trying time. I have a new computer. Thus my missing of blogs as I try to figure out how to go through the process all over…
In June, tenants from Toronto neighbourhoods including Parkdale, Scarborough, Jane and Finch, and East York marched together to demand a permanent ban on Ontario evictions for anyone unable to pay…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ari Rabin-Havt argues that any available means of treating COVID-19 need to be viewed as public goods to be made available to all,…
Cancel it.
available from leftwingbooks.net In The Principal Contradiction, Torkil Lauesen introduces readers to the philosophy of dialectical materialism as a tool for changing the world. Dialectical materialism allows us to understand…
Next week will mark four months since COVID-19 really started to hit here at home and how so many things have changed since then. It’s a bit crazy to think…
Watching videos on camper van conversions recently, I think, I’m not ready to live in a camper van just yet; but having been a minimalist most of my life, I…
