Every decade we need to bailout businesses so capitalism can keep functioning. In the last bailout, caused by American bankers, western countries gave banks corporate welfare cheques that went from…
Here. I suspect Donald Trump is making him look pretty darn good, in comparative terms. But by all means, keep singing the praises of Trump, dumb Canadian conservatives.
Leaflet-sized version of a poster unveiled in Geneva, Switzerland by Generation Grundeinkommen (Generation Basic Income) in May, 2016. Photo by Julien Gregorio/Flickr. We already know capitalism is failing in the…
Heart breaking news from Nova Scotia.
The lame duck conservative leader and leader of the opposition in parliament, Andrew Scheer, has a problem. Is nobody paying him any attention? Is it that difficult for him to…
Alberta Labour’s occupational health and safety inspector didn’t actually visit the Cargill Inc. meatpacking plant in High River when the ministry inspected its COVID-19 safety measures on April 15. Instead,…
Couch cat.
……we have created 75 years of the world that Hitler failed to achieve.________________________________________________________________https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/alberta-canadas-tar-sands-is-growing-but-indigenous-people-fight-back/ https://globalnews.ca/news/6832608/coronavirus-trudeau-alberta-bc-saskatchewan-energy-industry-orphan-well-cleanup/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-orphan-wells-cleanup-bill-12-1.5528257 Some of our news media are gushing about how a clean-up of a few oil…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Daniel Markovits argues for a wealth tax to fund the relief and rebuilding effort needed in response to COVID-19, while Paul Mason…
The shockwaves of the pandemic and the oil crisis have caused the climate crisis to recede from the public conversation. We may have other things on our mind but the…
Neo-cons resemble zombies at a recent U.S. protest against public safety I’ve gotten so angry lately when I hear about idiotic conservatives bitching and whining (even more than usual) about…
Canada seems likely to get knocked off its perch as the world’s fourth largest petroleum exporter. We’ve milked it for all it was worth but today it’s worth way less…
If we had only Socrates, Shakespeare, Montaigne and Thoreau as guides, to direct our course, and tell us about the world and how to live in it, I think we…
How can a ‘market’ be a market without a market? Our stock markets are based on underlying principles like cash flow, employment numbers, productivity and sales. With none of the…
As Canadian governments, both Federal and Provincial, have been fighting Covid-19 and doing their best to meet the needs to the public, that effort has required steps to be taken…
Stephen Moore — who Donald Trump tried to install on the Federal Reserve Board — calls the people who insist on opening up the economy despite the health risks “the…
Pandemic and other major health issues have hit cities before and they’ll hit cities again in the future. Each time this happens cities find new designs and solutions for the…
How many attractive countries are there to help alleviate the overcrowding, the poverty and the tensions of so many countries of this world? And of one of the more desirable…
This has been obvious to me for most of the last decade, after it became clear that good information was never going to win over enough people, because disinformation had…
If you listened carefully to yesterday’s COVID-19 briefing in Edmonton, it was difficult to avoid the conclusion the Kenney Government’s reluctance to regulate certain industries has contributed to the spread…
