Andrea Hasenbank joins the Daveberta Podcast to discuss radical politics and propaganda in 1930s Alberta, one of Dave Cournoyer’s favourite periods in Alberta politics. From the rise of Communist organizations…
There’s a passage from the novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog (by Muriel Barbery, Europa Editions, 2008, p. 116-117) that so delighted me when I came across it that I…
Remember Marlon Perkins’ “Wild Kingdom”? We’ve got something like that on our doorstep only it’s not hyenas or lions on the hunt. It’s something far bigger, transient orcas. Here is…
Canada has pledged to donate 100 million doses of Covid vaccine but notice what is conspicuous by their absence. The specific breakdown of the pledge was finally released Sunday by…
Benjamin Netanyahu’s premiership has gone the way of the Norwegian Blue parrot. He’s out on the street where Israeli prosecutors can finally hold him to account on corruption charges. Palestinians…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Tom Parkin calls out Jason Kenney’s defence of genocide and its architects in an attempt to keep his party’s white supremacist base…
While rummaging through my junk recently (and by junk, I mean scraps of paper, etc., not, well, my junk) I came across something I didn’t know I had. A yearbook.…
The Green Party is in trouble. Party leader Annamie Paul is not Elizabeth May. And the first elected member from the Maritimes, Janet Atwin, has joined the Liberal Party. Janet…
I have been alive on this planet for 60 years. I don’t know how that happened. It doesn’t seem even remotely possible. Yet here it is. I am 60. I…
It is a long way from Mar-a-Lago Resort in Palm Springs, Florida to roof-top dining in Calgary, Alberta. Nor is former president Donald Trump likely to be confused with Alberta…
The optics may not be great but the Trudeau government is staging an emergency summit on antisemitism. WTF? The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs has been calling for an…
Canadian mining companies dominate the sector in many parts of the world. Largely unregulated, they are able to profit from weak protection for the environment, workers, indigenous peoples and human…
Firsts installment of the photos some friends in Jakarta took for me, as I try to research what’s happening there for my new project, Against the Seas: Saving Civilizations from…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Ed Yong discusses the preventable dangers created by a shift in COVID-19 messaging from one of public protection to one of individual choice.…
He left Canada on an official government plane the other day to attend the G7 and NATO summits. Today he is meeting with the G7 leaders and dealing with all…
Pelagius: it’s a soft g, as in germane, not a hard g, as in gorilla, but otherwise the discussion here in this podcast below is good. Here are a few…
The Notwithstanding Clause in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms was supposed to be used sparingly such in cases where human safety could be endangered if governments didn’t act in…
I’ve been gloomy of late about the prospects for the republic to the south of us. Molly Worthen — an historian at the University of North Carolina — offers some…
Riding on my high that a post-covid education system could be different, I joined a committee. It quickly killed by buzz with a reminder that bureaucracy will only allow choices…
