Mind Blowing. MoS Takes the Plunge.
A subscription to Google Alerts is not for the faint-hearted. Untreated, it can lead to chronic depression. I’ve avoided it for three weeks, my New Year’s resolution. Until today. I…
January 2022
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Moscrop writes about the need for public policy which remedies inequality rather than exacerbating it – while recognizing that we’re falling…
A Line Of Inquiry
If you are as much a fan of Britain’s Line of Duty (available on Netflix) as I am, you will enjoy this lacerating parody as the team interrogates Boris Johnson…
Climate Departure? Too Soon to Say.
I wrote to Camilo Mora asking if the bizarre severe weather events that whipsawed British Columbia in 2021 evidenced the onset of what he termed “climate departure.” About nine years…
A Tough Row To Hoe
Yesterday, Joe Biden held a very long press conference. For the most part, Jennifer Rubin was impressed. She writes: President Biden, while marking the end of his first year in…
Saskatchewan’s COVID-19 failure exposes the bankruptcy of neoliberalism
For many organizers and progressives, the pandemic did not reveal anything we did not already know about the way the Canadian economy is structured. It is not that many Canadians…
Desperate for political news.
We are all desperate. We have had an overabundance of Covid-19 news for the past two years. It has not gone away. Even the federal election in October last year…
As energy minister, acting Alberta justice minister Sonya Savage also has a less-than-stellar record
While Kaycee Madu cools his jets in the political penalty box for phoning Edmonton’s police chief about a traffic ticket, it’s worth noting that acting justice minister Sonya Savage has…
America’s new class war
Illustration by Mr. Fish There is one last hope for the United States. It does not lie in the ballot box. It lies in the union organizing and strikes by…
Trump Wanted a Wall. Now He’s Run Headlong Into One.
Donald Trump has exhausted his last chance to block the release of his records to a Congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection. After losing to a unanimous judgment of…
Good News. Asia Loves Jellyfish.
For most of the world the influx of jellyfish in local waters has become a real problem. Like most marine life, jellyfish are migrating into waters once too cold for…
Too Cool for School. Jordan Peterson Ditches University of Toronto.
Enough sour grapes to make cheap wine. Jordan Peterson has resigned his position as a tenured professor at the University of Toronto but he’s not bowing out gracefully. I can’t…
How Much More Can The Loser Erin O’Toole Be Humiliated?
I must admit I had no idea Erin O'Toole could endure so much humiliation, and like the Eveready bunny still keep going. I honestly thought that when Harper's former flak…
If They Can’t Handle a Pandemic, They’ll Never Tackle Our Real Problems
Two years and five waves reveal a dangerous pattern in the competence of Canada’s provincial and federal governments as they struggle to balance the economy with the emergency. At first,…
Legal Tweet of the Day: January 19, 2022
#LegalTweetoftheDay: Rudy Giuliani, other Trump allies subpoenaed by U.S. House panel investigating Jan. 6 #law #legal #lawtwitter via @CBCNews – Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Delgamuukw and decolonization
Members of the Gitxsan Nation resurrect their blockade of the main CN rail line in support of Wet’suwet’en land defenders, New Hazelton, British Columbia, February 2020. Photo by Randall Shoop/Vernon…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Cory Neudorf asks that Saskatchewan not play Russian roulette with the Omicron COVID variant. Rahul Suryawanshi et al. find that any theory of…
Up yours, winter
Why shovel snow that is like wet cement? To get to the hot tub, naturally. (Joey thinks I’m crazy.) pic.twitter.com/Mu38rRzaZ6 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 19, 2022 The post Up…
The Costanza Defence
I think there can be little doubt that Boris Johnson, whatever his shortcomings, is a student of Seinfeld. Here is what he had to say about the drink fests he…
Abolish public transit fares – for social justice and climate change
Public transit is much more than getting from point A to point B. It is implicitly linked to broader societal issues like climate change and social justice. Eliminating user fares…