Before the Aloha–gate travel scandal upset the United Conservative Party’s applecart, Commissioner Steve Allan’s big report on “anti-Alberta energy campaigns” was supposed to be Alberta’s first major political story of…
I am surprised and disappointed at those Republicans who support Trump to the point of rejecting the will of the American people and even democracy itself. The recent effort to…
This morning (December) was checking through some of the usual, conventional papers that are worth reading only because I can get them free. Today, I was enraptured by the tone…
Playful cats.
If less than half of one per cent are vaccinated, and places like Ontario are about to run out of vaccine, what does that tell you? It tells you the…
An artist’s rendering of the new Canadian Surface Combatant. Image courtesy of BAE Systems. The job of the opposition in Parliament is to hold the government accountable, in part by…
Aloha Albertans! Richard here writing to you from sunny Edmonton Honaberta. It’s currently sitting at a pleasant 28.4 degrees (that’s in Fahrenheit). I’ve got the heat turned up though and…
Can you imagine what it must feel like going home at the end of your shift with the reality that you had to choose who to leave, abandoned to their…
A bike What everyone needs. Everyone should have a bike. B bike Be at one with your bike. Be the bike. C bike A homophonic cross reference to bicycle. See…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Andre Picard warns not to expect the end of the COVID-19 pandemic (however distant that may be) to result in any particular…
Yes, the GOP has gone feral, but much of America has entered a Lord of the Flies fantasy-nightmare that could threaten the very survival of the Union. Like most democratic…
A lot of Canadian pols got their tits caught in the wringer for taking holidays abroad at Christmas. It was the height of hypocrisy. A couple of these bastards even…
In politics, there are two buttons, really. Hope and fear. When you distill everything down their base elements, that’s really all you’ve got. If you’re the government, you offer more…
Democracies around the world are having a hard time containing COVID. Glen Pearson writes: Democracies increasingly look incapable of containing the spread – not because governments aren’t trying, but because…
Unions are a reaction to poor working conditions, and it’s clear that some Silicon Valley companies have created the need for unions. Google, which has been actively suppressing workers who…
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Kate Harrison & Lindsay Maskell. We talked about the eternally growing story of Canadian politicians taking trips abroad during…
The New Year, of course, comes with a New Year’s Sale at leftwingbooks.net/sale A new calendar year always makes me aware of all the things that are unknown about the…
Three new titles from PM Press just came in, which is a nice way to start the New Year! Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly (Second…
Here are a few things that I have gleaned, from listening, from study and contemplation, and from some genuine experience. I believe they can be helpful. But above all, think…
