How the Cons and the NDP Are Trying To Destroy Team Canada
It couldn't be a worse combination. The coronavirus is surging, and may kill even more Canadians than it did during its first deadly wave. Even as pandemic fatigue sets in,…
October 2020
On local decisions
I haven’t paid a lot of attention yet to Saskatchewan’s municipal elections, due primarily to the reality that anything which happens at that level can be undone by a provincial…
Strange bedfellows: Trump’s political base
Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally in Arizona. Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr. Earlier in his career the world had watched him with amusement, that people refused to…
The Orwellian deception of the Abraham Accords
The flags of the United States, United Arab Emirates, Israel and Bahrain are screened on the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City, September 15, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90. Perhaps the…
Submissions on Bill 168
Shaun Bernstein and Omar Ha-Redeye provided written submissions to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy on Bill 168, Combating Antisemitism Act, 2020 on Oct. 28, 2020. The Cabinet provided an…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Zeke Hausfather reports that 2020 is projected to be the warmest year in recorded history. And Johnathan Watts reports that one of the…
Ford’s Continued War On Education
Doug Ford’s image — thanks to the pandemic — has undergone a makeover. But, Linda McQuaig writes, when it comes to education, there’s been no make over: It may seem…
The Long Read Lost
“What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think, changes that are continuing now at a faster pace,” wrote Maryanne Wolf, a neuroscientist, in her…
Cooking With Electricity is Cleaner than Gas
Gas stoves have reputation for being good to cook with, but they are really quite bad for everything else that happens in the kitchen – like inhaling air. Indoor fas…
Foregone Conclusions.
A reader asked me recently why I was paying so little attention to the two by-elections in Toronto Centre and York Centre in Toronto. Knowing the two ridings like the…
How propaganda became memory: Pierre Trudeau, Alberta and the National Energy Program
On this day 40 years ago, prime minister Pierre Trudeau’s finance minister and deputy PM, Allan MacEachen, rose in Parliament to introduce a new national budget. Warning that Canada could…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cushioned cats.
Indifferent to existential threats
While natural gas producers now pay nothing to the BC public in comparison to earlier days, production of the fossil fuel has about doubled in the last ten years. Fossil…
Oct 31: Demonstration in Solidarity with Dollarama Warehouse Workers
DOLLARAMA WAREHOUSE WORKER SOLIDARITY DEMONSTRATION We are not temps! We are essential! Join the demonstration in front of a Dollarama store to fight for: PERMANENT JOBS FOR ESSENTIAL WORKERS! Saturday…
Greens cheated in B.C. election
The election in B.C. last Saturday should have elevated the Green Party to the status of power broker. It failed. The Greens’ 15 percent of the popular vote should have…
Media Worth Listening To
Who is worth listening to? Well, the short answer is, everyone. But of course, given time limitations, some voices are more worthy of our time than others. I have written…
Dispatch from Winnipeg, Canada’s newest COVID hotspot
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister prepares for a daily coronavirus briefing. Photo courtesy of SooToday.com. During the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, Manitoba seemed like an enviable…
Corporate Fascism 101
We do not live in a democracy. We now live in an oligarchy, or plutocracy, or corporatocracy, if you prefer, as ivy league studies and systems analysis have confirmed, in…
The Dishonourable Senator from Northwestern Ontario: Breaking New Ground Stateside
For those who have been regular readers of this space know that I’ve had a fair bit to say about the dishonourable Senator from Northwestern Ontario Lynn Beyak. It seemed…
MP MACGREGOR INTRODUCES BILL TO ADDRESS FREIGHTER ANCHORAGES IN THE SALISH SEA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 26, 2020 MP MACGREGOR INTRODUCES BILL TO ADDRESS FREIGHTER ANCHORAGES IN THE SALISH SEA OTTAWA – Today, NDP MP Alistair MacGregor introduced Private Member’s Bill C-250…