Recriminations: We have a few.
At finger-pointing time, politics in Canada slips away into a morass of regrets. Wending your way through the reports on the pandemic, you have little to console yourself. We think…
2021
Stop Buying Bottled Water! Get A Berkey Now
Everyone should have one of these – a Berkey water filter, that is a whole other standard for clean water. We simply can’t be using bottled water. Bottled water causes…
All three policy proposals concerning the monarchy that were submitted to the NDP policy convention
The NDP is having a policy convention this weekend (so are the Liberals in what must have been a scheduling snafu). The NDP membership has once again put forward policies…
Values by Mark Carney tops of Alberta Independent Bookshops’ non-fiction bestseller list for week ended April 4
Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, April 4, 2021. The lists are compiled…
Plague Update: Callous Government
Dr. Kyle, as he’s known on Twitter, wrote the Moose Jaw Independent paper. The COVID-19 Variants of Concern in the Moose Jaw area are shockingly bad, and the school division…
Musical interlude
Katie Malco – Animal
Non-destructive renewable energy – a virtuous cycle
In days of Gigabyte Internet, people in charge of energy in British Columbia are promoting the equivalent of 20th century dial-up internet access…
2021 NDP convention day one: Encouraging signs, but a deeply flawed process
Jagmeet Singh at the 2021 NDP convention, April 9, 2021. More than 2,000 delegates will paritcipate in this year’s virtual event which will chart the future course of the party.…
Alberta government fails school curriculum
To comment on the new school curriculum proposed by Alberta’s Department of Education, I’ll do something it apparently didn’t. I’ll rely on experts. Specifically, four professors who teach in the…
A rural coastal property
The BC Liberal Government refused to address affordability issues because the real estate industry was a large benefactor of that party. In addition, property transfer taxes were putting billions of…
AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY FOR ONLY 20 CAREGIVERS
I think it was two years ago when a few of us got the idea of creating a retreat for caregivers. Not just any retreat, but one that could help…
Covid’s Ultimate Victim – Will It Claim Neoliberalism or Take Down the United States?
Economist James Galbraith, son of legendary Keynesian economist John Kenneth Galbraith, says the United States will face a “do or die” moment as the nation emerges from the Covid 19…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Don Pittis writes about Janet Yellen’s work to ensure that corporations pay their fair share, rather than being able to structure and artificially…
NDP resolutions present opportunity to build a socialist Canada
According to CD columnist Christo Aivalis, NDP delegates have put forward a priority list that can be the foundation for a democratic socialist Canada based on social, economic, and environmental…
48 Hrs In Alberta Politics
The last couple of days in Alberta have been interesting … not good, but interesting. It all starts with a bunch of rural UCP MLAs putting out a joint letter…
Jewish faculty in Canada against the adoption of the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
The IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism equates Jewishness and Judaism with the State of Israel—effectively erasing generations of debate within Jewish communities. Image from iStock. We write as Jewish faculty…
RIP, you old codger
That’s him on the right. Only stamp issued featuring the two of them, says my friend David Akin.
From Invincible to Vulnerable in Alberta
Having worked in politics for as long as I have, it still surprises me how quickly our collective opinion or view of one person can change on a dime. They…
My latest: Trudeau’s Canada, plague central
Keep out. Of Canada, that is. That was the rather extraordinary message from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week: if you’re American, you should just stay…
Disaster Capitalism At Work
Linda McQuaig looks back forty years, to when biotech was part of the Canadian landscape: It’s hard to believe it has come to this. Forty years ago, when a biotech…