Another Robbery Reported
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April 2021
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Matt Gurney discusses the complete lack of leadership which has led to catastrophic public health results in Ontario, while Haley Steinberg talks…
Supporting Everyday Learning
This is an unedited transcript of my workshop. There we go, so now I’m recording. That would have been interesting so welcome to the session called supporting everyday learning you…
The Fox, The Hedgehog, and The Mayor
Brian Saunderson is a Hedgehog. Not literally: metaphorically. At least that’s how I read Isaiah Berlin’s 1953 essay that classified people into two categories; Hedgehogs or Foxes. Berlin wrote that…
Liberal budget fails to meet the crises facing Canadians
According to CD columnist Christo Aivalis, the 2021 federal budget contains some decent elements, but its flaws and omissions are too significant to be ignored. Photo from Twitter. Yesterday’s 2021…
A Budget or Aspirational Theatre?
In this era of grave uncertainty it can be nearly impossible to judge a budget beyond the “what’s in it for me?” test. Is this the hill the Liberals are…
My latest: the budget speech Freeland should have given
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to table the 2021-22 budget of the Government of Canada. The real one. I rise to give the budget speech I should have given yesterday,…
Really Big
Kevin Page writes that the budget Chyrstia Freeland tabled yesterday is big — really big: Budget 2021 is big. It has many moving parts. It breaks records. It weighs in…
Talking the 2021 Federal Budget with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Lindsay Maskell & Jason Lietaer for the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about the 2021 Federal Budget, the big…
A Meta-Analysis of Well Being Reveals how to Help Your Mental Health
Many people are feeling worn out, down, and stressed after living through a year of the COVID-19 pandemic. People in nations which reacted swiftly and took scientific approaches to containing…
Leave ‘em Laughing.
In writing about the leadership skills of our political leaders, we have borrowed the title of a 1927 Laurel and Hardy two-reel movie to explain federal conservative leader Erin O’Toole.…
Laptop woes
Sorry my laptop is being looked at-all of a sudden the keyboard wouldn’t work. Not sure how long I will be without it. So – later, dude!
BC Hyjacked, provincial utility
In the early 2000s, Liberals changed BC Hydro’s primary purpose from utility service for the public to financial service for party friends and other special interests. BC NDP carries on…
There are better ways for Alberta’s only New Democrat to spend her time than calling for more Canadian troops on Russia’s doorstep
Last week, Heather McPherson, New Democrat Member of Parliament for Edmonton Strathcona, was sounding as belligerent as any Alberta Conservative on the topic of what she termed “Russia’s aggression against…
Teenage Spaceship
Christ I love this song.
We’re all exhausted and going a little crazy in these Covid times, but at least I now have my AstraZeneca vaccine appointment
I regret really letting health care officials have it with my last post. Like all of you, I’m exhausted after a year plus of this pandemic. The massive flaws of…
A Budget Two Years in the Waiting
Today was the day a couple new records in Canada political history were finally settled. David Akin of Global News pointed to these on his Twitter feed recently, that when…
When Premier Horgan – A Delegator – Steps Up With Major Announcements It Is Serious
Premier John Horgan addresses the media with provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry in the background on Monday, April 19, 2021. PROVINCE OF B.C. B.C. Premier John Horgan has…
Interview with Margit Schiller, former Red Army Faction Political Prisoner and Author of Remembering the Armed Struggle
available from leftwingbooks.net Margrit Schiller was an early member of the Red Army Faction, the West German urban guerrilla group. In 1971 she was captured and charged with a murder…
The Red Nation on The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth
available from leftwingbooks.net A powerful guide to Indigenous liberation and the fight to save the planet, published by Common Notions, now available from leftwingbooks at https://www.leftwingbooks.net/book/content/red-deal-indigenous-action-save-our-earth One-part visionary platform, one-part…