Tuesday Evening Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jim Stanford discusses the need to ensure corporations pay their fair share for the social infrastructure which allows them to thrive. –…
2020
September 1: After today’s horrible news, yesterday’s bad news became cheerful.
It has been disappointing to see how little we are informed by any of our news media – and that includes the social media like this one – about the…
Covid Journal, September 1, 2020
Neoliberalism exposed by Covid.
another blog, for anyone who is interested
I’ve decided to have bariatric surgery. I made the decision towards the end of last year, and I started a separate blog so I could write about it. Initially I…
Five great days in Algonquin Park
My daughter and I have started a tradition it seems. This is the second year the two of us have gone canoe tripping. This year we decide to go a…
The Democracy-Killing Machine
We hear a lot these days about how liberal democracy is in decline. Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Brazil, even the United States are drifting into authoritarianism. What if it’s not some…
Tony Abbott – Let the Old Geezers Die
Boris Johnson has chosen former Aussie prime minister and rightwing nutjob, Tony Abbott, to become a UK trade envoy. Abbott, an ultra-conservative Catholic, has strange ideas that now extend to…
Help Dimitri Lascaris build Canada’s Eco-Socialist Future
Winnipeg, April 24, 2019: Dimitri Lascaris speaking at a forum on Canada’s mistaken policy regarding Venezuela. Photo: Paul S. Graham Canada’s Green Party is electing a leader to replace Elizabeth…
Donald Trump: A new emperor of the lumpenproletariat?
Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Photo by Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons. In The Dangerous Class: The Concept of the…
Is the Culture War Going Hot?
Ask yourself what America would look like if Donald Trump is re-elected president of the United States. What would America look like by the time Trump would be sworn into…
This is a disgrace. Halt logging old growth.
Originally published on Facebook Here are photos captured earlier this month from the Granite (Renfrew) Creek watershed, just over the ridge to the east of Fairy Creek in Pacheedaht territory.…
Now for something completely different
Of course, these photographs represent something more to me than a 13 year-old’s regard for the beauty of our world. It represents the hope that the next generation will protect…
BC Government Unrepentant Undertakers For Remaining Old Growth Forests
Dear Mr. Horgan, Ms. James, and Mr. Donaldson, I am aware of the incredible old growth at Fairy Creek. Now I am aware that only 2.7% of the big trees…
Green Party Leadership Race: Views on the Monarchy
Elizabeth May The Green Party is holding the second leadership race this year. It is to choose a successor to Elizabeth May who has been a longtime champion of Canada’s…
Jack Layton is the NDP’s third rail
Former NDP leader Jack Layton at a rally in Saskatoon, April 9, 2011. Photo by Matt Jiggins/Flickr. The NDP is in the midst of a quiet crisis. The party has…
Change Is In the Air
The Liberals are proposing sweeping changes to the way Canada works. If you’re looking for historical analogues, David Olive suggests that you look at John A. Macdonald’s National Policy or…
Talking the Return of Schools in Ontario & Statues with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Katlyn Harrison & Gabriela Gonzales on the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the imminent return of schools in…
Being There: What Presence Means in a Digital World.
This is an unedited automated transcript produced by my Pixel 4 from this presentation: https://www.downes.ca/presentation/526 Hi everyone. I’m Stephen Downs and I bring you greetings from my home office in…
If you cannot honour our past…
How can we expect you to honour our future? Just get your Goddamn hands off John A. Macdonald. Nobody has the right to damage or deface a statue of an…
Order saying Alberta schools won’t have to enforce social distancing lands like a sucker punch
Whoever it was in the Alberta Government that decided it would be a good idea to risk springing the news on the public that COVID-19 social distancing rules won’t apply…