It Just Might Work
If you want to know what kind of finance minister Chrystia Freeland will be, Tim Harper suggests that you take a look at her book, Plutocrats: The Rise of the…
2020
If Press Gallery membership for the Rebel is so important, why are Postmedia reporters still in the gallery in Ottawa?
What are we to make of the peculiar fact that Postmedia reporters still occupy their comfortable chairs in the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery in Ottawa? A quick scroll through the…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Bouncer cats.
August18: Time is Short
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/17/death-valley-temperature-rises-to-544c-possibly-the-hottest-ever-reliably-recorded Not to worry. Oil chiefs and their expert premiers – as in Alberta and Ontario – have told us nothing is happening. So there. ____________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/the-plastic-we-use-unthinkingly-every-day-is-killing-our-planet-and-slowly-but-surely-killing-us ————————————————————————————————– …and in…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Paola Frelich writes about the uber-rich whose habit of being strictly isolated from anybody else has allowed for life to continue as…
A Voice From the Past
Over the past couple of years I’ve been exploring early progressive thought. Yesterday I stumbled across the following passage that immediately hit a chord: The misery of the people is…
Prorogation Overreach
Everyone, there are days when it feels like I can’t keep up. That feeling seems to happen to me more and more these days. Maybe it’s a function of getting…
Americans Do Love Their Snake Oil
Fortunately, people like Anderson Cooper have the real cure: I had to phone a friend to turn on CNN and watch Anderson Cooper mocking with a serious face the MyPillow…
The Day After: Morneau Resigns
The events from last night were sure to set off aftershocks of important events that would go a long way to determine what our politics look like. Aside from having…
Too Toxic to Continue
They’re the Old School chapter of the GOP, conservative Republicans alarmed at how their party, the‘party of Lincoln’ succumbed to rightwing extremists, misogynists, xenophobes, white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, racists and…
George Randolph is a good man
I know him, and I believe he is. Big heart, big brain, big dreams. Human. Here’s his full essay in Medium. Worth a read, and worth a follow. Excerpt: During…
Cleaning Our Air Can Save Millions of Lives, Trillions of Dollars
fog Thanks to the pandemic we’ve all gotten a taste of cleaner air, and we all want that to continue. Clean air isn’t just good for better views of the…
For The Foreseeable Future
Bill Morneau is gone. What are we to make of it? Aaron Wherry writes that it’s hard to work your way through the weeds: Whenever something interesting happens around Parliament…
Heads they win; tails we lose
The fiscal year that ended March 2020 was not a rewarding one for public pension funds run by BC Investment Management Corp. The rate of return earned was less than…
The empire strikes back: Understanding the UCP obsession with how history is taught
Anyone who wonders what inspires the United Conservative Party Government’s peculiar obsession with how history ought to be taught, and to what end, probably needs to look no further than…
What Remains For the Trudeau Liberals?
Bill Morneau was not the problem but a symptom of a greater failure known as the Trudeau government. With his finance minister out, resigning both his cabinet post and his…
Morneau Out, Uncertainty In
Tonight is the first night of the virtual Democratic nomination convention, a night when the eyes of the world were going to be turned towards US cable news channels and…
RIP, Bill Morneau
Back in 2015, some folks in Toronto-Danforth were pressuring me to run for the Liberal nomination. They said I should go to this thing in Regents’ Park where some Liberal…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dan Guadagnolo calls out the spinmeisters trying to torque job availability numbers to portray workers receiving coronavirus relief as lazy rather than deserving.…
On Rescuing Our Language and Communication Skills From the Dustbin of History – And Our Standards of Basic Courtesy and Civility Along With Them
Texting, instant messaging, online chat, the mainstream media, and the general direction of our modern society and “culture”, are destroying the people’s capacity to communicate, to think, to feel, and…