A Nation Rotting from the Inside
I have an American cousin. Poorly educated, profoundly ignorant, a real Trump guy. Like a vivisectionist’s dog, he lovingly licks the hand wielding the scalpel. Like many of his Facebook…
December 2021
The Faint Whiff of Change
In the last two weeks I’ve been struck by a growing awareness that something serious is underway in Antarctica. Three friends who have rarely, almost never, said much about the…
A Winter Of Discontent
OMICRON is tearing through Ontario. Bruce Arthur writes: It’s beginning to look a lot like chaos, everywhere you go. On Monday people lined up for rapid tests that ran out…
The Ballad of the Social Blemishes
Forty-four years. Forty-four years ago tonight, the Social Blemishes – me, Ras Pierre, Rockin’ Al and a few others miscreants – took to the makeshift stage in the gym at…
The legacy of the least liberal.
Never let it be said that Canadians do not need to see the last of Justin Trudeau. The only problem holding him in place is the lack of a potential…
The Real World
Well, I'm at last settled in to Kingston. Bad timing though as Kingston is the Canadian leader in attracting covid. I begin with an apology. I have often used the…
The Real World
Well, I’m at last settled in to Kingston. Bad timing though as Kingston is the Canadian leader in attracting covid. I begin with an apology. I have often used the…
Polluter Pays. The Case for Taxing the Rich.
The now standard narrative is that the developed countries are to blame for the climate catastrophe. Some think that’s an unduly broad brush. The case for taxing the rich wherever…
Affordable Ethical Shopping
It’s that time of year when people buy consumer goods to express their appreciation that other people exist. Yet, the world around us in suffering from consumerism-led climate change, what…
KINSELLACAST 190: Mraz, Belanger, Mills and the best songs of 2021
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Legal Tweet of the Day: December 20, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Trump sues New York AG, seeking to stop investigation into his company #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CNN – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net…
Swords into ploughshares
Photo by Clayton Cardinalli/Unsplash Simon Black, lead organizer with Labour Against the Arms Trade, speaks to Sam Gindin, former research director of the Canadian Auto Workers, about the promise of…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Umair Haque is rightly frustrated that we haven’t learned and applied obvious lessons about how to fight COVID after two years, while also…
Lazy Doug Ford will never learn on COVID-19, so let’s kick him out in 2022!
Ontario’s not so great premier As an Ontarian over the age of 18 whose second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine was now five months ago, today I’m eligible to get…
It’s the Christmas Season, right? Right?
It’s a messy Massie Christmas to you and yours. This year the Republican congressman from Kentucky sent friends and family this lovely Christmas photo. Looks like the little one has…
If the Library Isn’t Your Thing at the Moment, Here’s Something.
Make some time, grab a cocoa, settle into your favourite chair and check out the December issue of the MIT Technology Review. That’s December, 2020. It’s jam packed with ideas…
Huawei and the US ‘pivot to Asia’
An imminent Canadian decision on whether to ban Huawei from participating in the deployment of 5G networks will bring Canada-China relations to a boil once again. Photo courtesy Huawei. Amid…
When Worlds Collide And Converge
While reading the early part of a recent column by Rosie DiManno, as a Canadian I couldn’t help but feel a measure of smugness, but that sentiment quickly evaporated the…
Is the fight for the Kumtor gold mine drawing to a close?
The Kumtor mine in northern Kyrgyzstan, run by the Canadian Centerra Gold company since 1997, is one of the largest gold mines in Central Asia. Photo by Silvia Sorana. On…