Minister Toews and the AUPE: A Shift in the Balance of Power
“Strikes are only one measure of unrest.” Todd Vachon, an assistant professor and director of labor education at Rutgers University. Did you catch it, that shift in the balance of…
October 2021
Sunday sermon for employers: Expect letters that misuse scripture as evangelical churches jump on the anti-vaxx bandwagon
Some Canadian evangelical churches are jumping on the anti-vaccine bandwagon that’s been trundling through the republic to our south to abet vaccine refuseniks who hope to use religious exemptions to…
We get letters: lock me up
We get letters: I particularly love how #TruAnon has fully embraced the “lock them up” Trump talking point https://t.co/INJNKhDNBz — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 17, 2021 The post We get…
KINSELLACAST 181: Mraz, Mills, Belanger on hypocrisy – plus Wallows, Illuminati Hotties & The Anxiety
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Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Hannah Devlin asks why the UK is accepting a thousand lives a week as the price of incompetence in responding to the…
Rebuilding The Conservative Party
Tip O’Neil famously proclaimed that “all politics is local.” But in Canada, Robin Sears writes, all three of the national parties are top-down organizations. They’re dead at the local level.…
Ammon Shea is My New Hero
Eyyyyyyy Wssup guys This was the entire first post that started a thread in a group I belonged to on Facebook. I think seeing it aged me a decade, and…
Del Duca Dumbing Down.
When will politicians learn not to leap into voting reform without at least checking? At a sort-of liberal party meeting today, Ontario liberal party leader Steven Del Duca intends to…
A Solid Majority of Canadians Have Had Their Fill of First-Past-the-Post Elections
A new Angus Reid poll finds three out of five respondents were dissatisfied with FPTP in the last election. But, hey, what do they want – democracy? “For many, the…
Latest. Tweaked. Moody, I think.
Did some tweaks. pic.twitter.com/zYkh2iQYYR — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) October 16, 2021 The post Latest. Tweaked. Moody, I think. first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
Are The Loser Cons Condemned To Destroy Themselves?
I've been waiting to hear from Erin O'Toole, after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Justin Trudeau, left him looking like a zombie from The Night of the Living…
The Greenhouse Gas We Can’t Control
When we think of climate-killing greenhouse gas we usually focus on carbon dioxide, CO2. Some add methane, CH4, to the mix. It’s a far more potent but shorter lived gas…
Saturday Photo: Resilience, or Something to Remember When You’re Feeling Caged in
This was taken in a new park in my neighborhood. The plantings are all perennials, and most are native to the region. This has mean that they’d done very well…
Electoral politics can’t solve climate change
A protester holds a sign at the climate strike in Nürnberg, September 2019. Photo by Markus Spiske/Unsplash. Like many dedicated volunteers last month, I spent hours doorknocking, phonebanking, and speaking…
On Moral Injury
I just re-read a post full of sound and fury that I wrote last year at this time, detailing my initial shock at our unsafe and unprecedentedly intense working conditions…
He Can’t Do That
I wrote earlier this week about David Card, who — along with two other economists — was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in economics. Card was congratulated immediately by Prime…
Free Maroon Now Campaign/Coalition: Letter in Support of Compassionate Release for Russell Maroon Shoatz
Letter in Support of Compassionate Release for Russell Maroon Shoatz Russell Maroon Shoatz was denied compassionate release in August despite serious life-threatening medical conditions by Judge Kai Scott, on the…
Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin’s “Anarchism and the Black Revolution” [Black Agenda Report]
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor 13 Oct 2021 In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Lorenzo Kom’boa…
Does Doug Do Privacy?
Bet you are all set to go with your smart phone and Ontario premier Doug Ford’s vaccine passport. You do realize, I hope, that this passport with its QR code…
Set in Edmonton, Metis author Conor Kerr’s Avenue of Champions leads independent booksellers’ fiction bestseller list
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. The lists are compiled…