Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Scott Gilmore discusses how our elected leaders have failed us in responding to COVID-19. Shannon Devine offers a warning to the Ford PCs…
January 2021
Erin O’Toole and the Far Right Farce
Oh no. It seems that Erin O'Toole has changed his mind and now does NOT want Canadians to look into their mirrors, and see if they can see a Conservative.…
My latest: when they’re attacking you, they’re losing
When they start braying and screeching, you know you’re winning. When they ignore you, you’re losing. This writer has managed political war rooms for many years, from coast to coast.…
At Some Level, Each of Us Knows This
We’ve left it much too late to stop it and we’re just going to have to face the consequences of our folly. It’s one thing to recognize that our high-carbon…
Talking Pipeline Politics & Erin O’Toole and the Far Right on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Lisa Kirbie. We discussed media reports about the impending cancellation of…
Makhno & Mutual Aid, Coal, Policing & Pipelines — and a whole lot more — new at Leftwingbooks.net!
A New Year is here, and we have several new titles at Leftwingbooks.net — just click on the book cover in question to go to the site where you can…
More On Our National Embarrassment
I recently posted about our national embarrassment known as Conrad Black, sycophant extraordinaire. The following, by editorial cartoonist Michael de Adder, was tweeted by Neil MacDonald, who observes. And a…
Canada and Alberta can manage the transition away from fossil fuels, says economist Jim Stanford in new study
The decline of Canada’s fossil fuel industry is inevitable, and unlikely to be the disaster Conservatives like Alberta Premier Jason Kenney have been predicting, a study released this morning by…
An Economic Fossil
Those who lobby for the fossil fuel industry claim that millions of Canadian jobs depend on the oil. Jim Stanford writes that the notion that Canada’s economy is deeply dependent…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of January 18, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of January 18, 2021. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Tired? Try These Restful Solutions
Getting enough sleep but still feeling tired? Try taking a rest. Physician Saundra Dalton-Smith MD has identified seven types of rest everyone needs, and some people need more of a…
America, we hardly knew ya!
While some desperate Canadians still manage to flee south to escape our bitter winters, we have not been seeing Americans breaching our locked-down borders in any large numbers. American tourists…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of January 18, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 18, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: A US federal judge has granted a stay of execution for the…
How neoliberalism is fanning the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia
Members of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces stand in formation during a ceremony in Baidoa, Somalia, to mark the inclusion of Ethiopia into an African Union peacekeeping mission, January 22,…
Trump Loots White House, Stealing Jokes
Seth’s team figured it would be a joke if they suggested Trump would brazenly take things out of the White House, but it appeared to happen the same day, which…
Jason Kenney Reverses Peter Lougheed’s Coal Policy
Remember 2017 when Jason Kenney continually invoked Peter Lougheed’s name in his quest for the UCP leadership? Well, it’s 2021 and Mr Kenney isn’t wrapping himself in Mr Lougheed’s mantle…
Jan. 17: Be Patient with us old farts….
Ah, the confusion of life. I have a whole blog that seems to have gone missing. And my confusion is not helped by a diet of sleeping pills that can…
The On-Again, Off-Again KXL Pipeline
CBC is reporting that Joe Biden intends to move quickly after his inauguration this Wednesday to cancel the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has indicated…