Leadership failures
Energy democracy is a social movement aiming to create a new paradigm for electric power supply. The objective is to link social justice with technical innovations by involving local communities…
May 2021
Hundreds of Kids Found Dead In Unmarked Graves
A normal country would declare several days of mourning after a mass grave of children was discovered. — Nora Loreto (@NoLore) May 29, 2021 Canada is a normal settler-colonial country…
The clocks are striking thirteen and there’s something in the air – Albertans seem to be reading George Orwell’s 1984 again
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, May 23, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Musical interlude
Tame Impala – Tomorrow’s Dust
Big Oil’s bad week
As I have said elsewhere, I don’t do a lot of finger-pointing at oil companies when placing the blame for global warming. They produce the oil and gas because we…
Remember this
More than 200 children and babies, tossed in unmarked graves. Unloved, unprotected, unknown. Some days, we are just as bad as the worst of the worst. The post Remember this…
And it’s still Friday
@JustinTrudeau’s week:• apologize to actual fascists• call opponents racists after having worn racist blackface• agree to give Quebec special status and crush minority rights there• coverup more sexual abuse in…
About that Separation of Church and State Thing.
America has a new Bible. It’s the “God Bless America Bible.” Think of it as the scriptural equivalent of Reese’s pieces. The “God Bless the USA Bible” is expected to…
Erin O’Toole’s Sinister New Propaganda Weapon
It's hard to believe that Erin O'Toole doesn't think he's getting his message out, and that he's going to have to bombard Canadians with even more attack ads. When as…
The Disaffected Lib Mk. II 2021-05-28 12:28:00
What sort of a summer are we in for? That depends on where you stand in a latitudinal sense. The more distance between you and the equator the better off…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Matt Gurney questions how it is that Ontario (like other provinces) is continuing to avoid any meaningful planning in its pandemic response, with…
The Massacre History Tried to Erase
Although we are fast-approaching the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, I am almost ashamed to admit that I knew absolutely nothing about it until I watched HBO’s Watchmen…
The final days of the world?
Apologies for this. I began this entry several days ago. Then my computer crashed – or so I thought. I became convinced this was a scheme to destroy my use…
The left should leverage emerging cracks in BC’s right-wing coalitions
According to CD columnist Alex Cosh, it is up to extra-parliamentary movements to hold the BC government’s feet to the fire on behalf of working people. Photo courtesy the Province…
Tempest in a Coffee Cup
This week in Ottawa has been a very busy one by just about any standard, let alone for a short 4-day week. There is so much that political Ottawa could…
Chill Out
The doomsayers are out in full force. The economy will overheat, they say. Inflation will run wild. It will be the 1970s all over again! Paul Krugman’s advice is to…
Where is the outrage?
Why is this not the top news story in this country? “Remains of 215 children found at former residential school in British Columbia” /via @globeandmail https://t.co/AgfnawQYVS — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren)…
Council Fails Our Affordable Housing Residents
It’s ironic how Mayor Saunderson so loudly acclaimed the “Community-based strategic plan” last term (a document that was neither community-based nor a strategic plan) yet when a major issue arises…
The FIRE and the ashes: Rekindling Democratic Socialism
My new book is now available from BTL. The Fire and the Ashes – Between the Lines (btlbooks.com) In The Fire and the Ashes, long-time union economist and policy analyst…
The Gaslighters: Premier Kenney gins up an unlikely ‘strange alliance’ of anti-vaxxers and advocates of cautious reopening
It would be hard to find a purer example of gaslighting than Premier Jason Kenney’s straight-faced claim during yesterday’s COVID-19 news conference that the New Democratic Party Opposition and other…