Nov.20: sinning and repenting.
When I began this blog many years ago – and until recently – it had a huge audience over much of the world. Canadians were small potatoes. But that audience…
When I began this blog many years ago – and until recently – it had a huge audience over much of the world. Canadians were small potatoes. But that audience…
The BC Ministry of Environment has issued a “non-compliance advisory letter” for several violations related to a municipal sewage-treatment plant that empties into the Cowichan River, a review by sixmountains.ca…
Interpol – If You Really Love Nothing
Assorted content to end your week. – Shannon Vanraes reports that Manitoba has become the latest jurisdiction reduced to triaging patients in their cars due to a lack of resources…
Erin O’Toole is trying to put a softer face on the Conservative Party, assuming that strategy will build a big tent party. But, Bob Hepburn writes, he’s casting himself as…
The government pretends to care deeply and profoundly about human health, using police state measures in a time of crisis, justified by their supposed great concern for health. Yet, the…
The three wise monkeys are alive and well and hiding from reality in Ottawa. At a time when a recent Environics poll shows that 64 per cent of Canadians support…
Alberta set a new daily record for COVID-19 yesterday, with 1,105 confirmed new cases reported over the previous 24 hours. No fear, though. Apparently the worst of the pandemic is…
Share this article: At this point, we are all aware of what it means to defund the police. It simply means moving money and tasks away from police departments and…
As the pandemic continues to batter the economy and unemployment increases, it’s time to take yet another look at an approach to work that will maintain high employment while improving…
NOTE: If you send the updates to Jay Chase, please stop, as he has been released! Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: https://nycabc.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/updates-17-nov-2020.pdf NYC ABC, along with…
After more than 50 years of experimentation and development in the field, done by literally millions of people, and after 35 years of my own research, I would offer this…
Letter to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives I used to consider CounterPunch, Canadian Dimension, DemocracyNow! and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives among my most trusted sources for news…
Pardon me? No, pardon you! Me on Sun Media, on the real reason Trump is desperate to hold onto power!
Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century Andreas Malm Verso, 2020 One of the left’s richest traditions is the polemical pamphlet written amidst crisis. Who can forget…
It’s hard to believe, and even harder to accept, how much things have changed since COVID-19 started killing Canadians. Back in that fatal Spring we were united. We followed doctor’s…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Umair Haque discusses the U.S.’ extreme aversion to public goods (based primarily on a desire to exclude large numbers of people from…
Inconsistency seems more contagious than Covid itself. Is it fair that big boxes don’t have to implement contact tracing or extra measures while small businesses get penalized if they don’t?…
Illustration by Canadian Dimension “I heard about the closure on television on the six o’clock news. Then, a couple weeks later they phoned me up and said ‘you got a…
Most Republicans are sticking with Donald Trump. That’s bad news. But, E.J. Dionne writes, you can see the reason they have made that choice by looking at the election results:…