Trump is a symptom, not the cause
A friend was recently expressing hope that the political party I work for, the Democrats, will emerge triumphant in November, taking both the White House and the Senate. I said…
October 2020
The Morning After: The 42nd British Columbia General Election
Yesterday may have been a Saturday but we saw something out in British Columbia that we rarely see on a weekend in this country; an election day. It marked the…
Sunday #skvotes Links
News and notes on election eve in Saskatchewan. – Julia Peterson reports on a record number of new COVID-19 cases in the province yesterday, while CKOM reports that Saskatoon’s Lighthouse…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Umair Haque warns that we may be approaching the point where the cost of fighting man-made threats to our environment exceeds the…
BC Election Preliminary Voting Results
2020 Provincial General Election Preliminary Voting Results Home Election Results by Candidate Election Results by Party The following are preliminary voting results from initial count. Read about initial count.…
Rotten To Its Core
Max Boot used to be a Republican cheerleader. He’s not cheering now. Things, he writes, have changed: I’m old enough to remember when the Republican Party was known as the…
Don’t blame Singh.
If there was ever a guy on the wrong side of the parliamentary ledger, it is Jagmeet Singh of the new democrats. While the rest of the opposition thought they…
Freedom of Speech vs Fascism
If free speech bothers you, get a soother. Fascism and Maoism are not acceptable here. If you don’t understand that, then you don’t understand the black liberation movement, which is…
COVID-19? Forget about it! Alberta restaurants to stay open, Premier Jason Kenney vows
“Alberta restaurants to stay open, barring ‘catastrophe,’ premier says,” the CBC’s online headline writer summarized yesterday. Here, as they say on social media, let me fix your headline: “Alberta restaurants…
China has a soft power shortage
Now would seem to be the moment for China’s star to shine. It has gained control of the coronavirus pandemic rapidly and effectively, and it is the only member of…
“Decisively breaking with both worker elite mythology and male leftism”: An Interview with Bromma
Bromma is the author of Exodus and Reconstruction: Working-Class Women at the Heart of Globalization, The Worker Elite: Notes on the “Labor Aristocracy”, and a contributor to Full Body Scan:…
Brian Kidder Arrested (Again). Also Chris Vanderweide Gets Involved Because Of Course He Does
By this point readers of this blog and other activists who monitor the far-right, or even people who regularly follow the regular news, will be familiar with the antics of…
Brian Kidder Arrested (Again). Also Chris Vanderweide Gets Involved Because Of Course He Does
By this point readers of this blog and other activists who monitor the far-right, or even people who regularly follow the regular news, will be familiar with the antics of…
Brian Kidder Arrested (Again). Also Chris Vanderweide Gets Involved Because Of Course He Does
By this point readers of this blog and other activists who monitor the far-right, or even people who regularly follow the regular news, will be familiar with the antics of…
The Real Nature of Two-Face O’Toole
Ever since Erin O'Toole was elected Con leader, the shabby media in this country have been giving him a political honeymoon, which can only be compared to a full body…
My latest: Donald Trump’s path to victory
Forget it. Two years ago, in a limitless and sunny August when a global pandemic seemed like an impossibility, my daughter and I knocked on doors for the Democrats in…
On Critical Race Theory
Conservative British MP, Kemi Badenoch, insisted that Critical Race Theory is somehow illegal, so I’m just going to save this rebuttal here: This is a Twitter thread from Kojo Koram…
Michael Sandel’s Tyranny of Merit
I haven’t yet read his newest book, but Michael Sandel is everywhere these days promoting his new book. An excerpt from a Guardian interview: Sandel charts the rise of what…
Saturday Photo: Trees in the Golden Forest…
No message today because I’m calling for the election. But if you have a chance to get out, do. The light and the trees are wonderful. October’s bright blue weather,…