Talking the Enforcement of COVID-19 Rules with Kristy Cameron
Yesterday I joined Kristy Cameron on CFRA’s “Ottawa Now” along with Kate Harrison & Lindsay Maskell for the “Political Heat” panel. We talked about how the enforcement of new COVID-19…
2021
The solidarity of the right.
Is Erin O’Toole a fool? The conservative leader would not be so stupid as to reject the support of the extreme right of the conservative party? Yet we read that…
Alberta response to uproar over coal mining on pristine Eastern Slopes doesn’t really change very much
Alberta Energy Minister Sonya Savage said yesterday coal leases from the Kenney Government’s controversial December 2020 auction have been cancelled, but this does not mean as some news media reported…
#CPCRacists Attempt To Slink From The Republican Stink
The CPC leader insists that his party isn’t courting the far right, after a disastrous month for the Republicans as they lost control of the Senate by losing 2 runoff…
Socialist savant: Leo Panitch (1945-2020)
Leo Panitch (1945-2020), Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto. Image by Canadian Dimension. Families help to make us what we are, even if we turn out to be not…
Can you buy guilt for a nickel? Some charities think so
Question: if you saw this on the ground, would you even bother to pick it up? Last week, I got a nickel in the mail. Yes, a whole nickel. Where…
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week. – Scott Gilmore discusses how our elected leaders have failed us in responding to COVID-19. Shannon Devine offers a warning to the Ford PCs…
Erin O’Toole and the Far Right Farce
Oh no. It seems that Erin O'Toole has changed his mind and now does NOT want Canadians to look into their mirrors, and see if they can see a Conservative.…
My latest: when they’re attacking you, they’re losing
When they start braying and screeching, you know you’re winning. When they ignore you, you’re losing. This writer has managed political war rooms for many years, from coast to coast.…
At Some Level, Each of Us Knows This
We’ve left it much too late to stop it and we’re just going to have to face the consequences of our folly. It’s one thing to recognize that our high-carbon…
Talking Pipeline Politics & Erin O’Toole and the Far Right on “The Arlene Bynon Show”
This morning I joined Arlene Bynon on “The Arlene Bynon Show” on Sirius XM’s Canada Talks 167, along with Lisa Kirbie. We discussed media reports about the impending cancellation of…
Makhno & Mutual Aid, Coal, Policing & Pipelines — and a whole lot more — new at Leftwingbooks.net!
A New Year is here, and we have several new titles at Leftwingbooks.net — just click on the book cover in question to go to the site where you can…
More On Our National Embarrassment
I recently posted about our national embarrassment known as Conrad Black, sycophant extraordinaire. The following, by editorial cartoonist Michael de Adder, was tweeted by Neil MacDonald, who observes. And a…
Canada and Alberta can manage the transition away from fossil fuels, says economist Jim Stanford in new study
The decline of Canada’s fossil fuel industry is inevitable, and unlikely to be the disaster Conservatives like Alberta Premier Jason Kenney have been predicting, a study released this morning by…
An Economic Fossil
Those who lobby for the fossil fuel industry claim that millions of Canadian jobs depend on the oil. Jim Stanford writes that the notion that Canada’s economy is deeply dependent…
Wise Law’s Top 10 LawTweets for the week of January 18, 2021
Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of January 18, 2021. – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Tired? Try These Restful Solutions
Getting enough sleep but still feeling tired? Try taking a rest. Physician Saundra Dalton-Smith MD has identified seven types of rest everyone needs, and some people need more of a…
America, we hardly knew ya!
While some desperate Canadians still manage to flee south to escape our bitter winters, we have not been seeing Americans breaching our locked-down borders in any large numbers. American tourists…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of January 18, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 18, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: A US federal judge has granted a stay of execution for the…
How neoliberalism is fanning the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia
Members of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces stand in formation during a ceremony in Baidoa, Somalia, to mark the inclusion of Ethiopia into an African Union peacekeeping mission, January 22,…