Let’s put democracy back in the NDP
We call on the New Democratic Party, in the year of its 60th anniversary, to live up to its name. The upcoming virtual convention in April 2021 provides us with…
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of January 11, 2021
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 11, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: Google workers have formed the company’s first-ever union UK judge refuses extradition…
fact: you cannot wave the confederate flag or the swastika flag and rightly call yourself a patriotic american
This post has been half-written and sitting in drafts for many months. Days after an armed mob tried to violently subvert the results of an election seems like a good…
In praise of liberalism.
Being a liberal is not just some fuzzy feeling. It is a commitment to life. It matters not the color of your skin. It matters not whether you are rich…
Pharmacare for All: A Prescription for Your Wallet
The progressive opposition FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 8, 2021 MP ALISTAIR MACGREGOR TO HOST NDP MP PETER JULIAN FOR VIRTUALTOWN HALL ON THE CANADA PHARMACARE ACT DUNCAN, BC –…
What Albertans Can Learn From the Attack on the Capitol
Federal Judge Damon Keith said democracy dies in the dark, but as we’ve learned over the last four years, it can also die in broad daylight if it is abused…
Art News-Cowichan Valley Arts Council
Jan.8, 2021 Start a new habit Unlike those other New Year’s resolutions that mean depriving yourself, promising to either make art or at least view it regularly can be quite…
Somenos Marsh Society Seek Cooperation With North Cowichan
Society wants North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP detachment property returned to wetlands The post Somenos Marsh Society Seek Cooperation With North Cowichan first appeared on richardhughes.ca.
Within the decade, Electrification Technology will quickly impact the Alberta Economy & Athabascan Oil Sands
If I were the Mayor of Calgary, an Alberta MLA who goes to Edmonton or a MP for a riding in Alberta, the thing that would terrify me the most…
Resisting education cuts in Alberta: Drawing on recent historical examples
Operation Solidarity rally at Empire Field in Vancouver, where over 40,000 citizens joined to protest the government of Bill Bennett, August 10, 1983. Photo by Dan Keeton/Simon Fraser University Pacific…
This, You Must Watch. Arnold Schwarzenegger Denounces Fascism in America.
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Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Rebecca Solnit discusses the importance of accurately describing Donald Trump’s attempted coup, rather than euphemizing a violent attack against democracy. Enzo DiMatteo…
Be Careful Who You Associate With
Thanks to the salamander for alerting me to the following story. Randal Lane, the chief content officer and editor of Forbes has a warning for all companies: Be careful who…
The God Fetish, the God Phobia, and the Fetish of Words: Or, The Idolatry of Ideology
There are some who will read my writing and think – he’s a dangerous right-winger! But if they read more, they will realize that is obviously untrue. Others will decide…
What Were They Thinking?
In the midst of the COVID crisis, some of our political leaders have disgraced themselves. Robin Sears writes: In today’s crisis, some of our political leaders thought they should be…
Exit President Trump.
It has been America’s shame. The past four years of the American presidency has shown the world a failure of democracy in the strongest country in the world. When you…
Primary Influences
What are my primary influences? Among them: Buddhism, Taoism, the perennial philosophy, Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi and Thoreau, along with the values of the Enlightenment: liberty, equality, solidarity –…