luso mnthali on Twitter: “US Customs officials destroyed renowned Mali musician Ballaké Sissoko’s kora. https://t.co/NxXIQthUec” / Twitter — Read on twitter.com/malabousaza/status/1225151856999043074
gerald zuckier on Twitter: “@cmargir @malabousaza @chick_in_kiev Studies suggest that as much as 75% of the drugs that reach the US are smuggled over the border in glue used to…
Technology, we’re told, can and will make lives easier. That’s true — but only partially true. When it comes to elections, what happened in Iowa proves that our faith in…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of February 10, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: Philadelphia Flyers’ mascot Gritty cleared in alleged assault, police say Lawmaker quotes…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Annie Lowrey writes about the affordability crisis which has left most Americans in dire financial straits even as aggregate economic numbers look reasonably…
Diets make a difference in your individual health and our total global health. If we all eat healthier then the planet’s health will also improve, and the best way to…
Vaughan might want to be known as the city above Toronto but it seems to have also earned attention as a city of some unusual politics. Most recently, it has…
Late Friday evening, the Muskrat Falls rate mitigation circus came to town. Again. Around 7:40 PM, long after everyone with sense had gone home for the day, natural resources minister…
There’s a small but important update to the story about Jason Kenney’s conspiracy theorizing in Washington at the end of last week. According to the man who served as the…
More than half of Albertans live in Calgary and Edmonton, so why does it feel like the provincial government rarely takes big city issues seriously? Mack Male joins Dave Cournoyer…
For a long time Ms Soapbox has been trying figure out what Mr Kenney and the UCP mean when they talk about a “hand up” and a “handout”. She knew…
The Trudeau government isn’t exactly winning the hearts and minds contest with British Columbians. Ditto for John Horgan’s NDP. The Tyee’s Andrew Nikiforuk writes that Canada is once again lapsing…
So says the indefatigable Robert Reich, who, while admitting that the times are very discouraging, urges no one to give up in despair. You need only watch the first three…
I just want to take a few moments to consider Bryan Alexander’s comments about flying to conferences. As most readers know, I have flown to hundreds of academic conferences over…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Carson Hammond and Rob Rousseau each make the case that Canada needs a left movement for change comparable to the wave of…
This is the weekend where OLP members are voting for delegates to help choose the next Ontario Liberal Party leader. This is what the leadership campaigns were doing the membership…
Dear CVRD Chairman and Directors: I realize and appreciate our busy board currently has many priorities and budgetary fires to snuff. However, one of the largest blazes on our horizon…
Jason Kenney and Doug Ford used to be the best of friends. But times have changed. Kieran Leaviett and Alex Boyd write: The anti-carbon-tax rally in fall of 2018 was…
“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.” – Oscar Wilde Ross Douthat explores our trajectory that has led us to decadence, which…
