O’Toole sings of solidarity.
Some political pundits seemed surprised the other day that conservative leader Erin O’Toole was trying to build bridges to unions. Not all union members vote for new democratic party politicians.…
April 2021
2021 PEF STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST IS OPEN
The 2021 PEF Student Essay Contest is now open! Calling all Canadian students anywhere in the world and all post-secondary students in Canada who are working on papers taking a…
BC: a follower, not a leader
The BC Government could have learned from hydropower disasters in Newfoundland and Labrador and Manitoba as those were unfolding. Spending went out of control on Muskrat Falls and Keeyask. Because…
Covid Journal, April 1, 2021
Stories I’ve seen so far paint George Floyd as someone who needed to be taken down. Would the language used to describe a white person in a similar situation be…
Walking in Ottawa: Eating in Hintonburg at Meat Press & SuzyQ Donughts + Ottawa LRT
I walk from Centretown from Hintonburg for lunch at Meat Press and a sweet desert from SuzyQ Donughts. Then it’s transit back home via the Ottawa LRT and a short…
spring comes (poem by Kuwasi Balagoon)
spring comes and mail trickles in and trickles out as if written in blood winter’s talk hangs unresolved and useless as smoke and well-reasoned routines are questioned with a runaway…
The Dangerous Class by J. Sakai: Original Flipbook Print Run Sold Out
We are happy to say that the original print run of J. Sakai’s The Dangerous Class and Revolutionary Theory: thoughts on the making of the lumpen/proletariat has sold out. Originally…
Havin’ a chat – and Hot Nasties!
Alex scores an interview with the amazing Bad Nerves on the Havin’ A Chat Podcast – and there’s a Hot Nasties shoutout after the 50-minute mark!
Why the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism is a clear and present danger to academic freedom
Adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism weakens our collective fight against racism while posing a direct threat to academic freedom in Canada. Image by Stephen Melkisethian/Flickr. Over the last…
Nine Years After The Trudeau Brazeau Boxing Match
It was a boxing match, nine years ago last night, that many believe changed the course of Canadian history. The night the then Liberal MP Justin Trudeau took on the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Michael Atkinson and Haizhen Mou discuss their new polling showing that Canadians are particularly concerned with climate change and good jobs as…
Spring is Sprung: April Book Sale at Leftwingbooks.net
It’s another month, and another season, with snow melting (though also falling, as i type this), and as always, lots of possibilities of what the next season may bring. We…
Renewing the domain for another year
So my renewal for this domain came up. I thought long and hard for whether to bother renewing it… since its obvious to all that my blogposting on this has…
Renewing the domain for another year
So my renewal for this domain came up. I thought long and hard for whether to bother renewing it… since its obvious to all that my blogposting on this has…
A Year-Round Fools Speaks Again
It’s April Fools Day and in normal times it’s one of those days that I usually look forward to. The jokes and pranks and the social media hits and complete…
Not Alone
On Saturday, Ontario will go back into lockdown — because Bruce Arthur writes, the Ford government can’t do what is required: Half-measures are how we got here. Ontario has taken…
‘That was then; this is now.’
Is it not amazing how a few more nickels in your tin cup can change your attitude? Did you listen to how the Shaw executive on Monday changed his tune…
This is not a joke
Animals will be vaccinated in the United States before humans are, here in Canada. I wanted to give you an April Fool’s joke, but I can’t top that one, above.…
Peace envoy Rodman reaches out to ‘Hermit Kingdom’ Alberta
Basketball legend and self-appointed diplomat Dennis Rodman is reportedly heading to Alberta in an attempt to quell tensions between the increasingly isolated “Wild Rose Country” and the international community. Sources…