On obstructionism
I’ll give Yaroslav Baran credit for explaining in this thread how Parliament’s standard procedures have been modified over the summer. But it’s hard to see how that offers any justification…
2020
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Brink Lindsey discusses what the coronavirus pandemic has revealed about the failings of both libertarian philosophy, and the public sector apparatus left after…
POLICE ATTACKS ON PROTESTERS ARE ROOTED IN A VIOLENT IDEOLOGY OF REACTIONARY GRIEVANCE
NYPD officers block the exit of the Manhattan Bridge as hundreds protesting police brutality and systemic racism attempt to cross into the borough of Manhattan from Brooklyn hours after a…
For the Record: My Comments on ‘Exploring Options to Reduce Motor Vehicle Traffic in Stanley Park’
These are my comments from the debate on the motion presented Monday night. Much of it comes from my earlier postion ‘Accessible Spaces for Everyone’ below. You can watch/listen to…
So now what? From inconvenient to uncomfortable truths
Thousands join a Black Lives Matter protest in Vancouver, May 30, 2020. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. It has been a horrific and brutal diversion. From the cable news carpet-bombing coverage…
Disrespect from the Racetrack
Over the past couple of weeks we have seen millions of people come together around the World to march against racism. The fallout from the murder of George Floyd has…
The City Dispossessed of Its Commons
Demonstrators march in Paris to protest against the head of the National Front (FN), Marine Le Pen. The city as a way of dwelling in the world has not always…
Trudeau’s path to a UN Security Council seat runs through Africa
Acacia Mining (formerly African Barrick Gold plc) is Tanzania’s biggest gold producer and operates three major mines in the country—Bulyanhulu, Buzwagi (pictured) and North Mara. Image courtesy of Acacia Mining.…
When In The Wrong, Go On The Attack
Here is a how-to lesson: “Everybody’s trying to shame us.” pic.twitter.com/T1ISTiZpEe — Rex Chapman?? (@RexChapman) June 9, 2020 Recommend this Post
The Marshmellow Test
Paul Krugman always has a good take on what is happening in the United States and — because we are close neighbours — what is happening here. That is most…
This Cambodian Circus Helps Kids out of Poverty
Running away to join the circus is dream many kids have. In Cambodia joining the circus can be the best thing a kid can do, and they don’t need to…
You Don’t Get To Be Racist And Irish
That’s certainly how it is in my family.
Why did it take George Floyd’s death for Canadians to rediscover their humanity?
For almost three months Canadians had quarantined their humanity out of fear of the novel coronavirus. When funerals were cancelled hardly a peep was heard, little concern expressed for those…
Corrupt language corrupts minds: Police are civilians, under control of civilians
One of the bees in my bonnet has long been the misuse of the term civilian to describe people who are not sworn police officers. I wrote the post below…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cat introductions.
The perils of following computer models intead of evidence based science…
Canada’s response to the novel coronavirus, like much of the world, was based not so much on science as on computer generated model predictions. Predictions of 200,000 people dying with…
June 10: What’s this all about?
Americans have been murdering Blacks for over 150 years. Street gangs quite publicly and with general support even broke into jails to pull out Black prisoners to hang them or,…
Stanley Park to reopen to all cars in a few weeks
Kenneth Chan Daily Hive Jun 9 2020 The closure of Stanley Park’s local roads to private vehicles will end in late June or early July. The Vancouver Park Board closed…
Race, Class, Empire & Authoritarianism
The new empire we live under is a global neofeudal corporate imperialism, which is now morphing into fascism, to be precise. It is systemically racist, self-deluded, and culturally arrogant in…