NDP leader Jagmeet Singh before the English federal leaders debate, September 9, 2021. Photo from Twitter. Jagmeet Singh and the NDP have come out with a bold costed platform that…
H/t Theo Moudakis Just a short note: I have updated yesterday’s post with a link to a London Free Press article in which Julie Ponesse is excoriated for her self-serving…
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, July 17, 2019. Photo by Palácio do Planalto/Flickr. In late April, Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro brought down the gavel on the sale of water and…
NSO made the news again due to their tools being used to spy on Bahraini and Hungarian activists, which obviously isn’t good. NSO is a cyber security organization that focuses…
This election, Susan Delacourt writes, is all about change: How much do you want? More or less? It’s one of the most fundamental questions in any election campaign, but the…
Erin O’Toole is the only politician, in this election, I have heard promise to cut the funding of the CBC. Yet the CBC seems to be the only television network…
The polls continue to look positive for the Liberals. But for tonight, I wanted to lead off with this: A very big moment: I voted for the first time in…
Has the parlous state of Alberta’s health care system, said to be on the verge of collapse as the fourth wave of COVID-19 rampages through the province, opened a serious…
After eight extensive posts about the Ontario electricity sector, I am expanding my geographic coverage to look at the electricity sectors in selected OECD countries. My focus will be on…
Okay, fair enough, it was the Globe & Mail. The headline read: At Fairy Creek protesters and police clash over old-growth logging in British Columbia. “Clash” now there’s a loaded…
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Khalden Dhatsenpa and Gavin Armitage-Ackerman write about the need to treat housing as a human right rather than a commodity. – PressProgress…
Assorted content to start your week. – Cory Neudorf writes about the need for layers of COVID-19 protection now to avoid extreme measures like lockdowns due to the collapse of…
I think Justin Trudeau has been stunned by how difficult it has been to get his message across to Canadians. Stunned by the way violent Con mobs have tried to…
Ever since the campaign began the Cons have been trying to drown out Justin Trudeau's message to Canadians, anyway they can. They have directed their monstrous supporters to try to…
The Lancet Planetary Health has devoted its latest volume, “Breathing Fire,” to the growing threat of wildfire smoke, the dangerous PM 2.5 that threatens the health, perhaps even survival, of…
We don’t remember very well. It’s human nature to forget even the not so distant past and, instead, consider the present as normal. There’s a term for it – “creeping…
It’s hard to know how this will play out but it could be a corner stone to Joe Biden’s presidential legacy. Late Saturday night, Biden took the lid off a…
The latest episode of the Magpie Brûlé podcast is now live. In this episode, Cam & Alise talk about the latest developments from the 44th General Election, the last leaders’…
They have only themselves to blame but there’s no point dwelling on that. Old School or what I call patrician Republicans are realizing that, even with Trump gone, the GOP…
Here’s the latest compilation of every other week updates: PDF NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners and…
