“Wasn’t that a party?”
It seems as though, about now, that prime minister Justin Trudeau is wishing he had a political party behind him. It seems he worked so hard to trash the liberal…
August 2021
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good remains atop independent booksellers’ bestseller list for fifth week
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Election Funnies and Follies #4
At Issue: How did the first week go for the parties? @RosieBarton @ChantalHbert @acoyne @althiaraj @elamin88 #Elxn44 #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/NrgLusOY35 — CBC News: The National (@CBCTheNational) August 20, 2021 As you…
Drill, baby, drill = Burn, baby, burn
News media in North America has been paying considerable attention to the state’s wildfires, particularly the one known as Dixie that has consumed over 700,000 acres and is still only…
Musical interlude
Tove Lo – Sweettalk My Heart
The final days
American, British and Canadian news media have been disgusting on their coverage of the war in Afghanistan. The rule seems to be that the Taliban and only the Taliban are…
Leader vs Influencers: A Case Study Of Elon Musk
Top influencers does not equate to real leaders. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and Mao were top influencers, and they were all deranged. As for content of contribution, Musk’s boaring project misses…
Plague Update: Was Hoping Not To Do More Of These
Moe’s ending of restrictions and having the Roughriders hold super-spreader events has put the province into a pickle. School hasn’t even re-opened yet, and the numbers are already approaching the…
Alberta needs a new Lougheed for a new era
Fifty years ago, Alberta entered the modern era. With the provincial election of August, 1971, Albertans dismissed Social Credit, their governing party for 36 years, and elected the Progressive Conservatives.…
Even If We Don’t Want to Admit It, We’ve Thrown In the Towel.
Is our decline now unstoppable? Author, professor and newspaper editor Andrew Potter argues it is and his arguments ring of truth: One of the more alarming features of our current…
An air of anxiety
New posts here have been scarce for quite some time. I have been drawing though. LondOntLife has kept me busy. I have worked up books of cartoons from previous years…
Wheels Spinning Within Wheels
“When this religious militancy, the seed of which has been sowed by Pakistan, heads towards Pakistan, it will be catastrophic.” Since the Taliban overran Afghanistan there’s been no end of…
Reflections about “On Necrocapitalism” – J. Moufawad-Paul
This piece was originally posted on Medium on August 15, 2021. On Necrocapitalism is available now from LeftWingBooks.net. Reflections about “On Necrocapitalism” J. Moufawad-Paul With the book version of On…
This Sunday!
On CFRA Live this weekend, we’ll launch our Sunday Political Panel with the start of the #cdnpoli campaign. @KarlBelanger, Alise Mills & @kinsellawarren will join me at 8 a.m. Sundays…
How Should We Judge Historical Figures
Should historical figures be judged by the best things they have done or the worst. Should they be judged by the standards of today or of their time. Should some…
On Mandatory Vaccines
Now that the City of Toronto has mandated vaccinations for all 37,000 of its employees, with limited exemptions, and the Toronto Transit Commission following suit, now seems to be a…
Like Dandelions
Among the vaccinated, rage against the unvaccinated is building. Paul Krugman writes: It’s possible to have sympathy for some of the unvaccinated, especially workers who find it hard to take…
Wilson Blames Council for Hospital Debacle, Brushes Off Saunderson
“I blame somewhat the local council,” said MPP Jim Wilson in this recent interview from the Peak FM about the continuing debacle of the hospital redevelopment. Well, so does most…
On Puritan-Capitalism: Money As The Measure Of All Things
The mechanistic materialist world view, which the West, beginning with Europe, adopted a mere 400 years ago, and then exported through economic, financial, military and cultural colonialism and neocolonialism to…