The Shift Festival – or is that, “Lemmings Unite”?
The Shift Festival and Conference – this looks interesting, and worth checking out. However, the fact that freedom is not mentioned in the tag line, considering what is happening globally,…
2020
Orisanmi Burton on the Revolutionaries Organizing Inside Attica Before the Rebellion
From the “Prison Activism and the Organizing Tradition” panel at the Making and Unmaking Mass Incarceration Conference, Dec 5th, 2019. The panel also featured Dan Berger, Steven “Stevie” Wilson, Zoharah…
Genocide Ahead
I don’t enjoy bringing bad news, but I feel a duty to help others, and to protect them when I can, which includes warning them of danger, as well as…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Thomas Christopher Lange studies (PDF) the costs and effects of two dental care options, and concludes Canada would be best served with…
Manslaughter charge for anti-Indigenous violence another win for colonial injustice in Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay grain elevators on 110th Avenue. Photo by Sean Marshall/Flickr. On the night of January 28, 2017, Barbara Kentner, a 34-year-old Anishinaabe woman, was walking in her Thunder Bay…
Covid Journal, Sept 17, 2020
A series of links as opposed to outright editorializing. The rich are getting richer, Covid lockdowns are facing Constitutional challenges, tech issues continue as we willingly destroy what’s left of…
Political Malpractice
There’s been lots of speculation about a fall election. Susan Delacourt states definitely that there will be no election: Trudeau surely hasn’t missed the fact that New Brunswick Premier Blaine…
There’s no Reason to Buy Clothes
If you’re like me then you’ve stopped wearing nice clothes to work because you never leave your house for work. Us “office workers” don’t need to buy clothes because the…
Trademark Creativity
Time for a little confession on my part; I have a real soft spot for creative thinking when it comes to protest or making a point. Whether if I agree…
“Jack be nimble, Jack be quick…”
“We understand the value of wise and prudent fiscal management,” she told the news media and bankers last week. In telling them what they wanted to hear, our new finance…
in which i implore the goddess of antihistamines to smile upon me
I am so grateful to be home, and to have several more days off before returning to work. All four of us are happy to be back. What a joy…
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We have met the enemy and he is us — Alberta in the midst of a climate damn emergency
VICTORIA — The world is waking up to the fact the climate emergency is, well, an emergency. This certainly isn’t good news for Alberta, although, perversely, it may be good…
The difference between the US and China’s response to COVID-19 is staggering
In Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage, he reports on interviews he did in February and March with US President Donald Trump about the coronavirus. Trump admitted that…
The New Blog
Recently, this blog has become impossible. But I now have discovered a new system. Below are sections in blue. touching them will (I hope) reveal news items. As always, my…
Cynicism & Hope
I firmly believe in the fundamental importance of freedom of speech. Without it, freedom dies, and democracy is impossible. I don’t believe in censorship, because censorship always leads to tyranny.…
Modern Monetary Theory could be the key to unlocking Canada’s economic future
MMT has the potential to upset an economic order that posits governments are always subject to private enterprise, not the other way around. Photo by Jamie McCaffrey/Flickr. As payments through…
The Failure of Propaganda, The Crisis of Legitimacy, and The Resort to Fascism
The propaganda is hitting Goebbels level, it is getting that obvious and stark. The elite are losing the propaganda war – hence, the increasingly shrill and panicked, desperate measures. Keep…
Averting Fascism
Fascism is rising – here is how to avert it. A short video talk, linked below, sparked these thoughts, which I will share. May they bless us with the courage,…