The aftermath of the November elections has raised questions about whether America is too broken to heal. Congressional Republicans have served notice that they’re out to make America ungovernable again…
This is an unedited auto-generated transcript from my talk today to Creative Commons Lightning Talks. Hi everyone, it’s Stephen Downes here from Casselman Ontario Canada. This presentation is for a…
That’s crazy. I’m going to forget about politics and start doing celebrity stalking.
Assorted content to end your week. – Carl Meyer writes about Denmark’s move to finally and fully shut down oil and gas production as part of a transition to clean…
Conservatives are remarkably similar these days — on both sides of the Atlantic. Andy Beckett writes in The Guardian: “Politics is sometimes … about finding out how to change the…
The Bachman Turner Overdrive seem to say it best in their song, “Taking care of business (every day).” It seems to be the theme song of the conservatives who are…
Soon after Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Vancouver two years ago at the behest of U.S. authorities, Chinese state security…
For weeks Erin O'Toole has been trying to scare Canadians into believing that Canada was going to be the last country in the world to receive Covid vaccines. Taking advantage…
“We truly can’t praise the love and pursuit of wisdom enough,” wrote Marcus Tullius Cicero in one of his last works, How to Grow Old (De Senectute; aka On Aging…
Denmark has taken another important step in its shift to a green economy. Earlier this month, the Danish parliament agreed to cancel licenses for oil and gas drilling and phase…
Carbon credits could be a win-win solution North Cowichan’s decision to suspend public consultations on the future of the 5,000-hectare Municipal Forest Reserve pending secret, open-ended talks with First Nations…
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Umair Haque discusses the tragic mistake governments in Europe and North America have made in refusing to make plans sufficient to wipe…
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I’ve just written a report for Employment and Social Development Canada on the current recession’s likely long-term impact on homelessness in Canada. An overview of the report can be found…
Street art poster depicting Donald Trump. Photo by Lord Jim/Flickr. Voting turnout during the 2020 United States presidential election—around 65 percent, the highest since 1960—was astonishing, and all the more…
US President-elect Joe Biden during a campaign stop in Michigan. Photo from Flickr. In this mystifying moment, the post-electoral sentiments of most Americans can be summed up either as “Ding…
Write to them. Support them. Help them. Michael Kovrig Beijing No. 1 Detention Centre 501 Dougezhuang County, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100021 Michael Spavor Dandong Detention Centre Jingu Village, Zhenxing District…
In North America and Europe we are bound to have to spend the winter mostly in our own domiciles due to political mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic alongside the scourge…
Erin O’Toole wants to put a kinder, gentler face on his party. But, Bob Hepburn writes, since he became the Conservative leader, he has pandered to the party’s darker angels:…
