Prospects for the NDP
Jagmeet Singh, the current leader of the New Democratic Party. Photo courtesy the NDP/Facebook. This article is part of a series in which CD editors asked NDPers, current and former,…
2021
Fourth Major Heatwave in Five Weeks Building in the Rockies
If this summer is doing anything it’s in demonstrating that the climate emergency is here. Now. It’s here now. Extreme heat, extreme drought, fires so intense they create their own…
Avi Lewis has the moral courage to add substance to the NDP
Avi Lewis has both the moral courage and the policy credentials that have the potential to add substance to the NDP, writes former CUPE National President Paul Moist. Photo courtesy…
Review of Robyn Marasco’s “Reconsidering the Sexual Politics of Fascism” – Matthew N. Lyons, Three-Way Fight
By Matthew N Lyons | Wednesday, July 14, 2021 Memorial to Ashli Babbitt, killed during January 6 attack on U.S. Capitol Most critiques of the far right take women for…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Umair Haque discusses how the UK is headed for yet another avoidable wave of COVID-19 disaster. Sarah Rieger reports on the rising…
Ottawa must intervene in closure of Alberta’s supervised consumption sites
Despite the effectiveness of supervised consumption sites, since taking office the Government of Alberta has been actively curbing access. Photo from Shutterstock. Harm reduction works. After a number of 2018…
Crow’s Head
Latest. Three by four. I like crows and ravens. The post Crow’s Head first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
On the Spot Water Cleaning Better Than Current Approach
Access to clean water is essentially for good health, yet many around the world lack access to save, clean, drinkable water. Researchers have found a way to clean water more…
The Conservative Temperament
Erin O’Toole does not inspire confidence. Many will blame him for his party’s current woes. But those woes, Andrew Coyne writes, go way beyond O’Toole: The Conservatives’ woes did not…
Paul Adam on Wills and Estates: Do children inherit parent’s debt?
Most debt doesn’t transfer from a parent’s estate to a child. If the deceased did not have enough assets to pay off the debts, the creditors may require a sale…
Found Being Black in Ottawa.
It must have been pandemic boredom. When our library opened up again last week, my wife brought home a number of books. One of them was Celina Caesar-Chavannes’ Can You…
MLA Pat Rehn, cast into utter darkness by Jason Kenney last January, welcomed back to jittery UCP Caucus
On the morning of Jan. 14, a day after an Edmonton researcher revealed Lesser Slave Lake MLA Pat Rehn had spent almost all of April, May, June and July in…
Dammit, That’s Piling On. Blame the "Wobbling Moon."
Sea level rise is already causing problems such as coastal flooding, salination of freshwater reserves and erosion. It gets worse when storm surge and seasonal high tides are added to…
14: Do not believe your journalists.
As I write this, George W. Bush, U.S. president at the start of the Afghanistan war, wept on television that the women and children would now be killed by the…
North Cowichan stands to benefit from forest carbon credits as carbon tax increases
Originally published by http://sixmountains.ca The financial benefits of forest carbon credits will continue to grow as the carbon tax increases in the coming years, a UBC forest research…
Justin Trudeau And The Election Guessing Game
I have to give Justin Trudeau a lot of credit, because he sure knows how to campaign, even before he calls the next election. For not only is his new…
Doing Politics Differently, In the Worst Way
I love to write this blog, it’s something I enjoy and it’s something I’m so glad I was able to bring back into my life after a decade on the…
Can Avi Lewis inject new life into the New Democrats?
Documentary film producer and Leap Manifesto co-author Avi Lewis is seeking the federal NDP nomination in a riding in southern British Columbia. Lewis is pictured here at an NDP convention…
From Carbon Sink to Carbon Bomb
The world’s forests have traditionally been seen as an invaluable carbon sink. Those vast swathes of trees would suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, exchanging it for oxygen. Together with…