On climate pollution
Martin Olzynski’s submission this week has called plenty of attention to the Kenney UCP’s funding of climate denialism through an inquiry attacking environmentalism. But let’s note that the response to…
January 2021
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Kate Aronoff writes about the need for a functional and representative democracy to ensure that public demand for climate action is actually…
How China is building a non-imperialist model of international development
China’s South-South model of international development suggests a new, anti-imperialist model of global governance may be taking shape. Photo from Pixabay. China presents its Belt and Road Initiative as a…
Oh, The Insensate Crowd
While we can take some comfort that the kind of madness that grips the United States is absent in Canada, we would be wrong to think there aren’t seeds of…
Jagmeet Singh was right to call for Trump’s impeachment
Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was right to take a stand in favour of Donald Trump’s impeachment, says Christo Aivalis. Image by Canadian Dimension, adapted from a photo by Tyler…
Creeping Illiteracy Across Canada
It seems literacy isn’t a top priority for hewers of wood and drawers of water. Literacy skills that a student develops in school can be lost in jobs where muscle…
The Party Hasn’t Changed
Erin O’Toole does not want the residents of Canada’s prisons to be the first Canadians vaccinated. It’s part of the old Stephen Harper playbook. Robin Sears writes: Canadian conservatives since…
The pandemic that killed small businesses.
It has always been obvious that while our politicians will say positive things about small and entrepreneurial businesses, the big box stores are all they can see. And nothing has…
‘Public’ inquiry into ‘anti-Alberta’ campaigns descends into fiasco with request for third extension, apparently posted in error
Having just been busted for commissioning three reports that an expert critic dismissed as “textbook examples of climate change denialism,” the commissioner of the so-called Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy…
Plague Update: Saskatchewan Takes Infection Lead With “Personal Responsibility”
If you hear someone talking about “personal responsibility” to get us out of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re gaslighting you. There’s no reasonable expectation that individuals acting responsibly can end the…
Bill Maher Shows He’s Still a Pompous Bag of Hot Air
I caught a little of Bill Maher’s RealTime season opener last night. I used to be a regular follower until Maher’s ego got the best of him as he launched…
For Procreate Artmash
The prompts were terrarium, monster, cupcake.
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Owen Jones points out how attempts to primarily blame the public for the spread of COVID serve primarily to distract from unsafe workplace…
White, Affluent AND Being Held To Account?
What has happened to America? You decide. Recommend this Post
In defense of dissent.
Is it better to be known for your friends or your enemies? When does a dissenter become the hero? Or is dissent the sad role of the aged curmudgeon? I…
Condemned To Repeat History
Tony Burman writes that the United States is beginning to look like Germany in 1933: Each day since the siege of the Capitol, there have been stunning revelations about what…
Banning the Proud Boys—be careful what you ask for
Members of the Proud Boys rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, November 28, 2020. Photo by Anthony Crider/Flickr. The federal NDP has called for the far-right Proud Boys to be banned…
Saturday Photo: Let’s Do Lunch at the Atwater Library
Construction goes on despite Covid-19, concrete and cement continue to be made–with all that implies for global warming and quality of life. I’ll be talking about that and about my…