Doug Dares Deny Us.
The Ontario legislature is in session this beautiful weekend. Doug Ford and his conservative henchmen are attacking our right to free speech. They want to use the ‘Notwithstanding Clause’ of…
June 2021
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good is Alberta Independent Bookshops’ fiction bestseller for week ended June 6
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, June 6, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Musical interlude
Foo Fighters – Shame Shame
Dan Lett: Max Bernier, lawbreaker
“The money shot, as it were, is the moment the Mountie tells Maxime Bernier to put his hands behind his back. The earnest leader of the People’s Party of Canada,…
How billionaires control us.
The richest Americans averaaged only 3.4 percent in taxes last year. (Actually, it’s even less since much of their wealth is hidden.) I don’t know the figures for Canadian billionares.…
Privatizing public wealth
Years ago, corporations decided they should pay less for BC’s natural resources. The companies funded pressure groups, slick online websites, and social media shills. All amplified public messaging in support…
An AI to lead us
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Green Party scores own goal with defection of pro-Palestine MP
On June 10, Green Party MP Jenica Atwin crossed the floor to sit with the Liberals less than two years after her breakthrough election for the Greens in New Brunswick.…
Victoria Cancels Canada Day Celebration
Victoria city council has voted unanimously to cancel a scheduled virtual Canada Day celebration. City councillors in Victoria have voted unanimously to cancel a planned Canada Day broadcast in order…
A World on Fire
Wildfires are becoming a major disaster around the world. Last year we even saw fires sweep across Siberia and deep inside the Arctic Circle. In a coastal towns in Australia,…
Going, Going, No – Not Quite Yet
We’ve heard it before so many times. Mankind is pushing the planet over the abyss on climate change. If we don’t mend our ways – and soon – we’ll be…
Confronting Reality
The other day, I posted my thoughts on the inadequacy of the term Islamophobia, opining that it seems almost euphemistic; it fails to baldly unveil what it really means: prejudice,…
Government Can Still Work
Canada botched its response to COVID. But, when it came to vaccines, Alan Freeman writes, we did it right. Consider the difference between Canada and Australia: Australia has long been…
Jenica Atwin’s floor-crossing puts Green Party on death’s door
What would be best for Canada—and for progressive voters in particular—would be for the Green Party to fade off into the sunset, writes Christo Aivalis. Image by Canadian Dimension. Yesterday,…
Premier plans to push through election law struck down by court
Provincial legislators were called back from their summer break on Thursday to kick off a marathon weekend sitting as the government prepared to invoke the notwithstanding clause to restore election…
After the ceasefire: What’s next for Palestine
The Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza demonstrated that Israel cannot go on carrying out apartheid and ethnic cleansing ad infinitum without paying a price, writes Greg Shupak. Photo by Crazymaq/Flickr.…
“The Road Not Taken.”
Ontario’s new democrats see victory only in their dreams. They are at the fork in the road of Robert Frost’s poem: The Road Not Taken. It is not a question…
About that cash lottery idea for Albertans who sign up to get their COVID-19 jabs – cognitive dissonance, anyone?
It sort of makes sense that a fellow who gambled away $1.3 billion of other people’s money on the U.S. presidential horserace last summer would like the idea of a…
My latest: the haters
Right off the top, let’s all agree not to use his name. The alleged killer of the Muslim family in London, that is. With some crimes, that’s what the criminals…