If He’s Right, Does It Matter Whom We Vote For?
A lot of the posts on this blog over the past 15 years have dealt with two themes: the looming threats facing our civilization and the declining will or ability…
2021
What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast – #Elxn44 Week One
The latest episode of Bluesky Strategy Group’s “What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast” with my colleagues Susan Smith, Neil Brodie and Alyson Fair is now out. In this episode…
Our Own Morons
Maxime Bernier is still around. He’s hoping to make it into the Leaders Debates. Stephanie Levitz writes: For Maxime Bernier, the early polls do matter: for him to participate in…
“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…
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 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…