Election Follies and Funnies #12: "There remains no path for the Conservatives"
“There still remains no path for the Conservatives to government. There wasn’t last week, there isn’t this week, and I’d bet a very large sum of money that there will…
2021
Justin Trudeau and the Toxic Trudeau Haters
I was planning to write a post about some of the ridiculous polls this campaign has seen so far, or wait to find out what was in the Liberal platform.…
A rumination on the month of September …
Ask anyone to name their least favourite month, and September will make the list. It’s not as bad as February (how could such a short month seem so long?). It…
Struggles from Below in the People’s Republic of China: An Interview with Ralf Ruckus, Author of “The Communist Road to Capitalism”
Onlookers watch cars burning after hundreds rioted in Xintang town, a district of Guangzhou, on June 12, 2011. Hong Kong television on June 13 showed scenes from the previous night…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Guy Quenneville reports on the frustration of Cory Neudorf and other Saskatchewan doctors due to the Moe government’s decision to ignore all available…
Legal Tweet of the Day: September 1, 2021
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Texas’ 6-week abortion ban lets private citizens sue providers via @CNN – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Visit our website: www.wiselaw.net
Election Campaign 2021 and the polls
Election 2021 features quite a few polls including daily tracking polls from Nanos and Mainstreet, who were among the most accurate polling firms in 2019. The table below presents calculations…
Election Campaign 2021 and the polls
Election 2021 features quite a few polls including daily tracking polls from Nanos and Mainstreet, who were among the most accurate polling firms in 2019. The table below presents calculations…
Election Campaign 2021 and the polls
Election 2021 features quite a few polls including daily tracking polls from Nanos and Mainstreet, who were among the most accurate polling firms in 2019. The table below presents calculations…
#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada’s federal election campaign. – Bruce Campbell discusses the connection between the climate crisis and wealth inequality – along with the miserable failure of Lib and Con…
Saturday, Sept 4, 2021: Halifax Anarchist Bookfair!
Come and visit us this weekend, at our first tabling event in over 18 months! We will be tabling at the Halifax Anarchist Bookfair for both PM Press and Kersplebedeb;…
ed asner, rest in power
People of my generation loved Ed Asner for his portrayal of Lou Grant on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”, and Allan and I both remember enjoying the spinoff “Lou Grant”.*…
Canada’s in a prolonged housing crisis. There’s one trick to getting out of it: Build more (non-market) housing
Each of the major national parties have housing plans that purport to address the housing crisis through a mix of supply and demand side measures. Photo by Scott Webb/Unsplash. The…
Hard To Accept
Yesterday, Joe Biden told a lot of Americans what they don’t want to hear. Jennifer Rubin writes: As he began, he sounded pugnacious if not angry. “I was not going…
Master Resilience Improves Gender Equality in Mexico City
Water scarcity is a real problem in Mexico City, and due to existing gender inequality women bare the brunt of the costs of a lack of water. This manifests itself…
A modest proposal for reimagining Canadian foreign policy
The Canadian flag flies over the Peacekeeping Monument in Ottawa. Photo from Flickr. Kim Campbell once said “an election is no time to discuss serious issues.” While most politicians would…
Gee, I wonder which Max this white supremacist is referring to?
The post Gee, I wonder which Max this white supremacist is referring to? first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
Liberal party’s housing platform
With a federal election taking place in Canada in fewer than three weeks, I’ve written a 950-word overview of the Liberal Party’s housing platform. It’s available here: https://nickfalvo.ca/ten-things-to-know-about-the-liberal-partys-housing-platform/
The groper-in-chief must be defeated. He must.
Since 2015, the @DaisyGrp and I have worked with, and supported, *several* women who had experienced sexual abuse and/or harassment in Trudeau’s #LPC. In every single case, Trudeau’s minions sought…