Spare me your pious bullshit
Flags at half mast, and earnest tweets, and stirring press releases, mean jackshit when you’re talking about babies and children who were killed with impunity, right? Right? — Warren Kinsella…
2021
Episode 75: Amarjeet Sohi is running for Mayor of Edmonton
Amarjeet Sohi joins the Daveberta Podcast to talk about why he is running to become the next Mayor of Edmonton and discuss his experiences moving to Canada as a young…
I wanted to share his story with you to help educate others and bring awareness to a part of our history that was swept under the rug by the Canadian government for well over a century.
Originally posted on Facebook Maskwasis Boysis is with Jackie Houle. 31 December 2014 · This is a photo of my late father at the Erminskin residential school in…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – John Michael McGrath highlights how the COVID-19 B.1.617 variant represents a serious threat to the prospect of safely relaxing restrictions over the…
“Isn’t Who We Are”
A Radio Ad Running in Saskatchewan Says Residential School Trauma Is a Myth, & I'm Pretty Sure No One's Noticed, Nevermind Concerned? https://t.co/rR813u866c — Tammy Robert (@tammyrobert) September 23, 2018…
Land Reform and The Birth of A Revolution
Half of the world’s people live in the countryside. Three quarters of the people living in poverty live in the countryside. Two-thirds of the income of the rural poor comes…
Warren’s social media explainer
• LinkedIn: Facebook for old people who are likely dead• Instagram: Twitter for people who can’t spell, look at themselves in the mirror a lot• Twitter: Facebook for angry ADD…
The appalling discovery in Kamloops is irrefutable evidence of a crime against humanity
The appalling discovery of the bodies of 215 Indigenous children hidden in unmarked graves at the site of the Residential School in Kamloops, B.C., is irrefutable evidence of a crime…
KINSELLACAST 161: Mraz, Adler on genocide and rights – plus angry urban music
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The world’s super censor brings John Cena to his knees
Are you familiar with John Cena? If not, good for you; he’s not really worth knowing about. So for the uninitiated, John Cena is a former professional wrestler. According to…
What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast – Energy and C-12
On Friday I was happy to record the latest episode of Bluesky Strategy Group’s “What You Need to Know: A #CdnPolicast” with my colleagues Neil Brodie and Alyson Fair. We…
Ignoring the Potential Conflicts of Interest
A story in CollingwoodToday notes that council will hold a meeting on May 31 to consider exceptions to their job-and-revenue-killing interim control bylaw (ICBL). That bylaw abruptly ended all growth,…
Payback for Agent Orange?
Vietnam has discovered a new Covid variant, a hybrid. “We have discovered a new hybrid variant from the Indian and the UK strains,” the health minister, Nguyen Thanh Long, was…
So Much Worse Than I Had Imagined
I hope to not hear anyone boasting about our great Canadian values, not for a while, not after the discovery of 215 unmarked children’s graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential…
A valley will be destroyed
Valley of the Southern North is a love letter to The Peace Valley and the people and creatures that make it their home. The Site C dam, now under construction,…
Covid Journal, May 29, 2021
Let’s change ‘the rules’. Canada’s internet regulation mess. Why is Canada the breeding ground for so many right-wing groups?
Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right: A Review of False Nationalism, False Internationalism by Gabriel Kuhn
Originally posted on LeftTwoThree.org. A review of E. Tani and Kaé Sera, False Nationalism False Internationalism: Class Contradictions in the Armed Struggle (Kersplebedeb, 2021 ). During a trip many years…
Libertarian Socialism & The Rebirth of Freedom & Democracy
What is libertarian socialism, and why should we be interested? Libertarian socialism is a long term goal, I would say, agreeing with Chomsky, who is the most prominent libertarian socialist…