An Assessment of Erin O’Toole’s selection as Conservative Leader
In a leadership convention that will be known as much for it counting machines shredding ballot votes and the long delay in announcing results as it will for the picking…
2020
It’s Not Like They Had Much to Choose From
Canada’s Tories, like their Republican cousins to the south, are old, white and increasingly irrelevant. Both parties have to pander to an aging demographic that is becoming more xenophobic and…
Kelly Anne Says Adios, Donaldo
Trump apologist extraordinaire, Kellyanne Conway, is leaving the Trump administration – and there’s no two-week notice either. Kellyanne is clearing out at the end of the month. Her husband, George,…
Can Trump’s environmental mischief be undone?
Of all the damage that Donald Trump has managed to do in the last four years, the most serious is his assault on the environment. Aside from pulling his country…
Live-tweeting the CPC “vote”
https://twitter.com/kinsellawarren/status/1297684312255594496?s=21 #CPC leadership balloting process. pic.twitter.com/pFaBXHn9qx — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 24, 2020 The #CPC leadership vote makes the Iowa Democratic primary look like a well-oiled machine. pic.twitter.com/VDBURjopz5 — Warren…
What Alberta’s School Re-entry Plan Teaches Us About Trust
On July 21, the UCP government announced 750,000 students will return to school in September under the government’s re-entry plan Scenario 1. Scenario 1 means in-class learning under near-normal daily…
Whatever happened to the Green New Deal?
Students participate in the September 2019 climate strikes in Washington, DC. Photo by Hillel Steinberg/Flickr. The Green New Deal was the signature issue of the Green Party of the United…
Dungeons Above the Ground
Technology, Torture, Voices in the Head ... "Early perpetrators become a scientific and moral elite and form a spiritual engine of biological necessity." The smaller genocide develops the technology ,…
Dungeons Above the Ground
Technology, Torture, Voices in the Head ... "Early perpetrators become a scientific and moral elite and form a spiritual engine of biological necessity." The smaller genocide develops the technology ,…
TECHNOLOGY AND POWER IN TORTURE
“Early perpetrators become a scientific and moral elite and form a spiritual engine of biological necessity.”
Toxic Deadly Gaming Culture
One of the strangest things about modern tech is that you can easily hear what a dead murderer thought of himself and others. There are hours of video of this…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Christina Maxouris and Alaa Elassar report on a new study showing the U.S. could save tens of thousands of lives by requiring…
Andrew Scheer’s Last Desperate Hours
I never expected to write a post on Andrew Scheer's last day in office. I thought after more than two years of attacking him on an almost daily basis I…
Risk Assessment for September
I have two weeks left before going back to school in person. I’ve been writing on social media and sending emails and signing petitions because this plan in Ontario doesn’t…
Stranger Things – Election Eve Edition
Will Americans go to the polls as scheduled on November 3rd? Probably. However there is a 1 in 200 chance of an asteroid hitting Earth the day before. NASA says…
Jack Layton and the Message of Hope
It's hard to believe that it's now been nine years since Jack Layton died. It seems so long ago, yet I remember that day so vividly. I was up early…
HAS COVID-19 STRENGTHENED XI JINPING? (repost)
On June 15, the National Bureau of Statistics cancelled its press conference in Beijing. It was due to present May’s economic data, showing that China’s economy continues to “gain momentum”…
I Struggle With Milton
Confession time: I find a lot of epic or narrative poetry a slog. Milton, Homer, Dante… I have read my way into them all, but unlike my other books, I…
Maryanne’s Tale
CNN and The Washington Post have obtained copies of conversations Mary Trump had with her aunt, retired judge Maryanne Trump Barry. The judge appears to know her brother well: Maryanne…