Canada In The 21st Century: The Path Ahead
This short essay was written as a response to a YouTube video on the CaspianReport, titled, Geopolitics of Canada. At some point I may re-write it to be more in…
2021
Powder Keg USA – Part II
Most of the world is in crisis, in a number of ways. The US in particular is in bad shape, and set to either explode in civil war, or implode…
Inter-provincial non-essential travel policies are being prepared for Premier John Horgan
Daily Headlines February 12 2021 Vaughn Palmer: B.C. readies plans to stop visitors at the Alberta border, if needed Opinion: If variants cannot be contained, B.C. may need to restrict…
Musical interlude
Tame Impala – Lost in Yesterday
Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
That seems to be the reaction of our hapless snowbirds, now that February 22 has been announced as the date international travellers arriving by air will have to quarantine for…
My latest: five solutions to Trudeau’s vaccine problem
If you have a problem and you have a solution, you don’t have a problem anymore. If you have a problem and you don’t have a solution, you have a…
Michael Spourdalakis on Leo Panitch, Syriza, and challenges for the Greek Left
Panitch had a long-standing affection for Greece and close ties to Greek leftists. Photo by Thierry Ehrmann/Flickr. In December of last year, COVID-19 took the life of one of Canada’s…
A Little Late, Nikki Haley Tries to Grow a Pair
Former Trump acolyte, Nikki Haley, has had an epiphany, a truly religious-grade conversion. Haley now says it was a mistake for Republicans to have backed Donald Trump and his presidency.…
Here we are now, going to the bothsides
Shorter Murray Mandryk: Who can really say whether we should want to have more or less spread of a deadly disease? What we should focus on is compromising on a…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Joe Vipond, Malgorzata Gasperowicz and Christine Gibson discuss how it’s entirely feasible for Alberta (or any other province) to be COVID-free if its…
Big Changes
COVID is temporary. That’s what governments everywhere are telling us. But what if it isn’t? Tom Walkom writes: In the past, coexistence was the usual human strategy for dealing with…
#TrudeauVaccineFailure
“57 per cent of Canadians now say the government has done a poor job of securing COVID-19 doses for the population. This represents a near tripling from the number who…
An apology to Gillian Steward.
Fair is fair. For years I have thought that Gillian Steward, a freelance journalist in Calgary who frequently writes for the Toronto Star, was an apologist for the oil interests.…
Is This the First Rumble? A Revolt in Republican Ranks.
It struck me while watching the impeachment trial underway in the Senate that, for Democrats, this was about far more than putting the boots to Donald J. Trump. This was…
Mayor in the heart of the oilsands dares Jason Kenney to fire him in fight over declining ambulance service
In case you missed it, while Alberta Premier Jason Kenney was trying to pretend the embarrassing rebellion of two COVID-skeptical MLAs in southern Alberta wasn’t happening, another political rebellion against…
Behind the Capitol Storming: Breaking Down the New Far Right [RADIO]
You can listen to the episode archived here. The Trump zealots who stormed the Capitol building on January 6th, leading to at least 5 deaths, were part of a growing…
Philosophy of Antifascism in a Settler Society with Devin Zane Shaw [PODCAST]
Devin Zane Shaw, author of The Politics of the Blockade and The Philosophy of Antifascism, was on the excellent podcast Millennials Are Killing Capitalism recently: Shaw talks to us about…
Torkil Lauesen: New Year status 2021
New Year status 2021 In last year’s status, I promised a dramatic 2020. That
How the Internet Re-Wired Our Brains and the Man Who Warned It Was Coming
20 years ago Michael Goldhaber warned us about the complete dominance of the internet, increased shamelessness in politics, terrorists co-opting social media, the rise of reality television, personal websites, oversharing,…
On the Indieweb
I’m going to take Daniel Goldsmith’s excellent post Praxis and the Indieweb as a point of departure for this post. Like Goldsmith, I am a fan of the Indieweb, or…