“The evil that men do…
Chantal Hébert of the Toronto Star is no William Shakespeare. A good writer but sometimes a bit too Quebec-centred, I was annoyed at her column the other day questioning why…
June 2021
Buoyed by overwhelming leadership approval vote, Rachel Notley sketches outline of Alberta NDP’s 2023 campaign
Acting like someone with a serious chance of returning to the Premier’s Office in 2023, Alberta New Democratic Party Leader Rachel Notley received a 98.2-per-cent approval vote in the Opposition…
Jason Kenney’s Thoughts on Residential Schools
The only reason I’m going to mention the Sky Palace scandal in the same post as the deaths of 215 Indigenous children at a former residential school in Kamloops BC…
Greed is . . . not-so-good
On Tumblr, the kids are calling it “late-stage capitalism.”* Unlike other late-stage diseases – syphilis springs to mind — there is still hope for saving… Continue ReadingGreed is . .…
Honoured
One of my paintings finds a home at the cottage of Andrea Douglas, who made a generous donation to charity to get it! Grateful and honoured.
If We Can’t Handle Covid, We’ll Never Solve Climate Change. The Pandemic May Be Our Miners’ Canary
What do Covid and the climate emergency have in common? They’re both truly global in dimension and ultimately defy local fixes. Yes, we in the developed world can vaccinate most…
"Weapons Grade Lunacy"
The scary part isn’t that Trump (and his whole fam damily for that matter) is a grifter. The scary part is that Trump cons himself. He pulls things out of…
bearing witness: 215 tiny skeletons speak to us. canadians must listen.
The discovery, last week, of the remains of 215 children on the site of a former Indian Residential School has sent shock waves through Canada, especially through this province, where…
Sometimes you just gotta call "Election Fraud."
Benjamin Netanyahu is taking a page out of Donald Trump’s post-election playbook. Benjamin Netanyahu has said a newly formed Israeli coalition that is poised to unseat him as prime minister…
The Empire Strikes Back
The Roman Catholic church is fighting back. The Roman Catholic archbishop of Toronto took aim at Justin Trudeau this morning following comments from the Prime Minister about the Catholic Church’s…
How France lied about Hassan Diab
A Canadian citizen falsely accused of bombing a Paris synagogue in 1980, Hassan Diab was wrongly extradited in 2014 and held, without charge, in a maximum-security French prison for 38…
Failure to Practice What You Preach
In talking and writing about the discovery in Kamloops this week, I’ve tried to make a point that while I hope for better and for those responsible for those institutions…
Canada: home of the world’s most flexible constitution
Is Canada a country? Yes, I know Canada is a country in the land-mass sense of the word. You really can’t miss Canada on a map. It’s that massive slab…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – David Olive rightly questions why big pharma has been gifted intellectual property monopolies and multi-billion-dollar profit streams over COVID vaccines developed through…
Bobby
Today is the anniversary of losing him. What a different world it would have been.
The ‘S’ word in American politics—time for a reclamation
Campaign poster for Eugene V. Debs and Ben Hanford, the Socialist Party’s candidates in the 1904 United States presidential election. Image courtesy the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. On June…
Ontario’s Next Election
Ontario is a year away from an election. COVID has been a game-changer. And each of the three major party leaders has significant deficits. But, Bob Hepburn writes, the contours…
Rebooting Canada, eh!
Tax the rich. That would be a good start. Close the loopholes, implement capital flight controls, tax financial speculation, tax the richest 1% and the large, profitable corporations, along with…