A Cool Tool For Balancing Caregiving With…LIFE
There is so much talk about self-care in the online caregiving discourse that it’s just plain exhausting. What we need is a simple and realistic way to think about how…
2020
What is your power and authority to rule?
https://tonyseed.wordpress.com/2020/02/18/for-your-information-how-the-canadian-government-imposed-the-band-council-system-on-indigenous-nations/ In 1890, the people of Kahnawake protested, pointing out the Canadian government’s lack of jurisdiction and its hypocrisy in opposing “hereditary” chiefs: ”Every nation throughout the world retains their…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Eric Holthaus calls out any attempt by the uber-wealthy to paper over their profits from climate destruction with “philanthropic” donations. And David…
Dangerous Territory
The anger which overtook the United States four years ago is drifting north. Susan Delacourt writes: Large-scale rail shutdowns, Indigenous blockades, a new flutter of Western separatism from elected MPs…
The Beer Store’s small planning error.
It was reliably reported the other day that Ted Moroz, president of Ontario’s Brewers’ Retail Inc., that operates the Beer Stores, has reported making a mistake to his foreign owners.…
The state of the art of Conservative victimhood in Alberta: Cue the violins! Here comes the Buffalo Declaration!
Cue the violins! No one does victimhood like an Alberta Conservative contemplating the prospect of another term in Opposition overlooking the Ottawa River. Michelle Rempel Garner, the Blocker Queen of…
Natural gas production up, public revenue down
Citizens of BC are misled by government about economic returns from natural gas. Relevant statistics are not readily available and the ministries prefer to conceal them. Since government does not…
Teck Decision Could be an Existential One for Canada’s Liberals
This month, Canada’s Liberal government is faced with what might be an existential decision. Vancouver-based mining giant Teck Resources needs federal cabinet’s approval for a new open-pit bitumen mine in…
Teck Decision Could be an Existential One for Canada’s Liberals
This month, Canada’s Liberal government is faced with what might be an existential decision. Vancouver-based mining giant Teck Resources needs federal cabinet’s approval for a new open-pit bitumen mine in…
Wet’suwet’en—A Divided Nation
I have on a number of occasions sat with fingers poised over my keyboard attempting to write something about the Wet’suwet’en/pipeline issue. Too many issues keep cropping up in my…
Teck Decision Could be an Existential One for Canada’s Liberals
This month, Canada’s Liberal government is faced with what might be an existential decision. Vancouver-based mining giant Teck Resources needs federal cabinet’s approval for a new open-pit bitumen mine in…
Feb. 22: Not a good day.
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/02/protests-indigenous-peoples-culmination-centuries-political________________________________________________________________ Happy shopping! https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-counterfeits-fakes-online-shopping-1.5470639________________________________________________________________ For 120 years, the U.S. has created poverty, exploitation all over Latin America. And it has murdered uncounted numbers. Now, it blames the migrants for all…
Is This What Trump Was Hoping For? Iranian Hard-Liners Score Decisive Election Win.
On January 3, a US drone was flying above Baghdad international airport when it launched a precision-guided missile at a vehicle carrying Iranian general, Qasem Suilemani, killing him and everyone…
Notch One Up for Artificial Intelligence
There are plenty of bright lights who warn that artificial intelligence, AI, could be the end of us. Elon Musk is one. More recently, Yuval Noah Harari, has written of…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Benjamin Israel, Jan Gorski, Nina Lothian, Chris Severson-Baker and Nikki Way highlight the reality that increased extraction from the tar sands is fundamentally…
Colby Takes the P*ss Out of the Buffalo Declaration
Even NatPo columnist, Colby Cosh, can’t take the Buffalo Declaration seriously. Alberta or Buffalo? Choose your own adventure? I suppose the revolution is still incomplete in the minds of the…
Canada Humiliated by International Scientific Community
Forty Nobel winners are asking the Canadian government to put an end to the proposed Teck mine. You should too by filling out the petition.
“Nothing to See Here”
Looking around Canada this week at the Federal and Provincial levels, you’d be hard pressed to find any leader having a good week. It’s just been a lot of bad,…
A Crisis Of Legitimacy
The United States is a mess. And, Frank Bruni writes, it’s getting worse: Something unsettling is going on in American politics — in America, period — and the chaotic Democratic…