Erin O’Toole and the Con’s Ugly Nazi Problem
Golly, what a difference a day makes. Yesterday the Con clown Erin O'Toole was claiming that there was no room for far right extremists in his grubby Trump Party. But…
January 2021
How Flawed A Leg
If the Sask Party split off a few MLAs to form a secondary Con party, they could fill the Official Opposition role also. This might put the NDP at an…
Nah nah nah nah Goodbye
Cartoon for @chronicleherald #trump #BidenHarrisInauguration #BidenHarris #TrumpTreason pic.twitter.com/t5Wm5V3OSX — Michael de Adder (@deAdder) January 19, 2021 And so after four years as a failed president, tomorrow Donald Trump will return…
Trump’s 1776 Commission: Cultural renewal by political repression
President Donald Trump speaks during a Constitution Day speech in which he said he would sign an executive order promoting “patriotic education,” September 17, 2020. Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian/The…
McConnell – Capitol Insurrection was "Provoked" by Trump
Maybe it’s because he knows Trump will be gone from the White House in less than 24 hours but, for whatever reason, still Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, has come…
Too Hot To Handle
They’re roasting. They’re poor and they’re vulnerable. No, they’re not Honduran or Guatemalan. They’re Americans. Yesterday I wrote about how parts of Central America are becoming increasingly less habitable. Heatwaves,…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Jim Stanford discusses the reality that even from the standpoint of GDP and economic activity, we’re better off implementing strong enough measures…
Just a Thought on Pipelines
Here’s an idea. When a government has to pump billions of dollars into a pipeline because the private sector won’t touch it then we should ask “why?” Kinder Morgan, the…
Is it impossible to catch white supremacists?
No, it ain’t. My pal Nick Kouvalis caught Paul Fromm trying to get a CPC membership. He kicked him out.
No Profile In Courage
Donald Trump has almost left the building. But Mitch McConnell has survived. Jennifer Senior writes that history’s judgment of McConnell will be damning: McConnell may think that the speech he…
Plague Update: Plague Of Pipelines
We have Canada's worst COVID handling, where's the Premier on that? — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) January 18, 2021 With Biden apparently poised to pause KXL into oblivion, Saskatchewan’s hapless…
what i’m reading: ghosts of gold mountain, the epic story of the chinese who built the transcontinental railroad
Ever since reading, in 2006, The National Dream and The Golden Spike, Pierre Berton’s books about the building of the Canadian railroad, I’ve been interested in the Chinese railroad workers.…
Former ICC Judge Wants to Criminalize Ecocide
Florence Mumba, a former judge of the International Criminal Court, is working hard to make ecological destruction a criminal act. Mumba and a whole team of international lawyers are focusing…
Talking the Enforcement of COVID-19 Rules with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Kate Harrison & Lindsay Maskell for the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about how the enforcement of new COVID-19…
The solidarity of the right.
Is Erin O’Toole a fool? The conservative leader would not be so stupid as to reject the support of the extreme right of the conservative party? Yet we read that…
Alberta response to uproar over coal mining on pristine Eastern Slopes doesn’t really change very much
Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage said yesterday coal leases from the Kenney Government’s controversial December 2020 auction have been cancelled, but this does not mean as some news media reported…
#CPCRacists Attempt To Slink From The Republican Stink
The CPC leader insists that his party isn’t courting the far right, after a disastrous month for the Republicans as they lost control of the Senate by losing 2 runoff…
Socialist savant: Leo Panitch (1945-2020)
Leo Panitch (1945-2020), Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto. Image by Canadian Dimension. Families help to make us what we are, even if we turn out to be not…
Can you buy guilt for a nickel? Some charities think so
Question: if you saw this on the ground, would you even bother to pick it up? Last week, I got a nickel in the mail. Yes, a whole nickel. Where…