The politics of cultural despair
Art by Mr. Fish/Scheerpost The physical and moral decay of the United States and the malaise it has spawned have predictable results. We have seen in varying forms the consequences…
November 2020
U.S. Election – TC’s Final Call
Three Possible Outcomes The U.S. election is imminent. This post represents my final assessment. Recently anti-Trump Republican Bill Kristol laid out three election scenarios as alternate Wednesday, November 4th headlines:…
Deep Green Homes, Architecture & Building Design
Green transition? We remain, mainly, lost. Case in point: the talk linked below from the University of Minnessota is one more example, from the numerous examples I have seen of…
Five reasons Trump will lose
Old men yelling at clouds On Aug. 9, 1974, Gerald Ford took over the presidency of the disgraced Richard Nixon. During his speech to the nation, Ford made what would…
A Halloween Tale: Jason and The Mirror
For obvious reasons the usual batch of Halloween witches and vampires, pirates and princesses did not ring our doorbell this year. So to mark a different kind of Halloween Ms…
‘They won’t even give him Tylenol’: An interview with the spouse of a COVID-positive prisoner in Manitoba’s Headingley jail
Headingley Correctional Centre, a provincial jail on the western edge of Winnipeg, is among the sites hardest hit by the pandemic. As of Friday, October 30, the jail had 69…
Political Correctness Off the Tracks
North Cowichan Mayor Al Siebring said financial penalties for council members found to be engaging in bad behaviour is a good deterrent. (File photo) North Cowichan council members face…
What Must Be Done: The Briefest Possible Sketch
We must educate and inform ourselves and others; speak up and stand up for both compassion (ie: public health) and freedom; sow non-violent democratic revolution to dethrone the sociopathic corporate…
Oct. 31: No. Damn it. No!
Just minutes ago, I watched CNN on TV. And this is the same garbage I’ve seen on every channel. Like virtually all commercial news media it ignores the central problem…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Justin McElroy writes about the fatigue and unfamiliarity we’re feeling in addressing a new wave of COVID-19 – along with the importance…
National Caregivers Month in a Year Like No Other
This morning I looked at all my posts from early November since I began writing this blog (eleven years ago). At this time annually, to mark the beginning of National…
For All Of Us
The pandemic has provided us with several lessons and even — Robin Sears writes — at least one gift: The first lesson of this pandemic is that we must never…
Why we need to resurrect the ‘syndicalism’ of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike
Crowds at Victoria Park during the Winnipeg General Strike, 1919. Photo by L.B. Foote/Archives of Manitoba. Due to the numerous commemorative events surrounding its centenary, many are now familiar with…
The last campaign.
You never know which one is your last campaign. You always look forward to your next until reality says your last was your last. I can no longer climb the…
A Scary Parallel….
“Earlier in his career the world had watched him with amusement, that people refused to take him seriously, and as one action after another met with amazing success, this amusement…
Trump or Biden—whoever wins, the world loses
Paratroopers assigned to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division prepare equipment and load aircraft bound for the US Central Command area of operations from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, January…
October 2020 Bits and Bites: Halloween Edition
We haven't really done a bits and bites article in some time but we thought we would do so now. Please forgive our omissions in this purposely irreverent look back…
October 2020 Bits and Bites: Halloween Edition
We haven’t really done a bits and bites article in some time but we thought we would do so now. Please forgive our omissions in this purposely irreverent look back…
Alberta chases multi-billion-dollar deal with Saudis, never mind what Jason Kenney used to say about them
Now that Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party is desperately trying to a do a deal with a Saudi Arabian company to build a petrochemical plant in Alberta, I wonder how…