Land Reform and The Birth of A Revolution
Half of the world’s people live in the countryside. Three quarters of the people living in poverty live in the countryside. Two-thirds of the income of the rural poor comes…
May 2021
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The appalling discovery in Kamloops is irrefutable evidence of a crime against humanity
The appalling discovery of the bodies of 215 Indigenous children hidden in unmarked graves at the site of the Residential School in Kamloops, B.C., is irrefutable evidence of a crime…
KINSELLACAST 161: Mraz, Adler on genocide and rights – plus angry urban music
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The world’s super censor brings John Cena to his knees
Are you familiar with John Cena? If not, good for you; he’s not really worth knowing about. So for the uninitiated, John Cena is a former professional wrestler. According to…
What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast – Energy and C-12
On Friday I was happy to record the latest episode of Bluesky Strategy Group’s “What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast” with my colleagues Neil Brodie and Alyson Fair. We…
Ignoring the Potential Conflicts of Interest
A story in CollingwoodToday notes that council will hold a meeting on May 31 to consider exceptions to their job-and-revenue-killing interim control bylaw (ICBL). That bylaw abruptly ended all growth,…
Payback for Agent Orange?
Vietnam has discovered a new Covid variant, a hybrid. “We have discovered a new hybrid variant from the Indian and the UK strains,” the health minister, Nguyen Thanh Long, was…
So Much Worse Than I Had Imagined
I hope to not hear anyone boasting about our great Canadian values, not for a while, not after the discovery of 215 unmarked children’s graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential…
A valley will be destroyed
Valley of the Southern North is a love letter to The Peace Valley and the people and creatures that make it their home. The Site C dam, now under construction,…
Covid Journal, May 29, 2021
Let’s change ‘the rules’. Canada’s internet regulation mess. Why is Canada the breeding ground for so many right-wing groups?
Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right: A Review of False Nationalism, False Internationalism by Gabriel Kuhn
Originally posted on LeftTwoThree.org. A review of E. Tani and Kaé Sera, False Nationalism False Internationalism: Class Contradictions in the Armed Struggle (Kersplebedeb, 2021 ). During a trip many years…
Libertarian Socialism & The Rebirth of Freedom & Democracy
What is libertarian socialism, and why should we be interested? Libertarian socialism is a long term goal, I would say, agreeing with Chomsky, who is the most prominent libertarian socialist…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Zeynep Tufecki warns that the deadliest phase of the coronavirus pandemic may be yet to come even after vaccines become widely capable of…
It’s A Hard Rain That’s Gonna Fall
The Republican Senate has killed a bipartisan committee to investigate the assault on the American Capitol on January 6th. Karen Tumulty writes: You’ve got to at least give Senate Minority…
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Some of Canada’s biggest companies saw record profits during the pandemic
According to research by Canadians for Tax Fairness, dozens of large corporations raked in record profits during the pandemic, with many using public subsidies. Photo from Unsplash. It was clear,…